The Curious Lawyer: Going to a Rock Concert - Where the Law Intersects the Experience

- Arriving: Contract Law
- Attending: Copyright Law, public performance right, cover versions, artists’ shows and fair use issues
        • Green Day
- Leaving and Posting: Infringement issues
        • Venue rules, ASCAP-BMI compulsory licensing schemes, rights, rules, obligations
        • Your recording on your phones, posting on social media

We all love going to concerts, but have you ever pondered the copyright and contract issues that permeate your experience? Experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi takes you on a fun, interesting journey through the fascinating copyright issues that dramatize our concert experiences. For litigators or transactional lawyers, no IP background is required, as you explore issues from the public performance right to singers and bands doing covers to Green Day’s famous fair use case involving concert artwork.

This program will give you a great overview of copyright law fundamentals, the exclusive rights, infringement, and fair use, all while allowing you to better understand what copyright law is doing in the background of our live music events from the moment we arrive to the performance to our post-show uploading of our phone footage. And we get a couple of fun sidebars, one on some contract law relating to the parking structures and limitation of liability disclaimers on parking tickets and one sidebar on artists seeking to delimit political candidates playing their songs at concert venues.

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