A current work-for-hire dispute over rights to the musical adaptation, cast album compositions and sheet music based on the children’s horror novel Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium explores the inter-relationship of work-for-hire and copyright-ownership language in agreements signed both before and after the Goosebumps play was created.
Rights of publicity now sit in a structural mismatch with the generative AI technology around them. Each unauthorized commercial use would in theory violate the right of publicity — but in practice, detecting it, identifying its source, and obtaining a remedy costs more than almost any individual claim is worth. And the volume keeps multiplying.
Following what has become a global trend, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that EU copyright law allows the bloc’s member countries, including Italy, to require platforms like Meta to negotiate compensation with news publishers for online press content.
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
Certain substantive aspects of trademark law and practice are now meaningfully different between the UK and EU, and procedural differences that were already present are now more pronounced. These changes raise important considerations for entertainment businesses operating across Europe.
A Q&A with litigator Jeffrey Kessler of Winston & Strawn who stepped in as lead counsel to represent a coalition of states against Live Nation after lawyers from the DOJ announced mid-federal-trial that they had reached a settlement in the federal government’s antitrust monopoly case against the live entertainment giant and its ticketing arm Ticketmaster.
Jenner & Block law partners Precious Jacobs-Perry, April Atterberg and Wade Thomson recently secured a notable victory on behalf of their client, rap artist Chancelor Bennett — better known as Chance the Rapper — in a long-running breach-of-contract dispute against his former manager Patrick Corcoran.
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
During a recent lecture, Morrison & Foerster partner Joseph Gratz noted the potential of harnessing AI as a tool to further “human expression” and dissected the snarl of novel copyright challenges that AI song generators present to the music industry.
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