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Unblurred Lines: Thinking Out Loud With Ed Sheeran's Copyright Trial Lawyers at Pryor Cashman

Ilene Farkas, Donald Zakarin and their team did a lot to ease the nerves of modern music makers last week when they convinced Manhattan jurors that Sheeran's Grammy-winning song "Thinking Out Loud" did not copy "Let's Get It On," the Marvin Gaye hit written by Ed Townsend.
12 minute read

Law.com

Ticket Resellers' Campaign in Georgia Raises Resale Royalty, Securities Law Issues

Should resale royalties be paid to artists and venues when tickets are resold? Such a resale royalty might encourage artists or sports teams to permit transferability for some or all their tickets. It would also help to value that property right. So how would that work?
8 minute read

The Recorder

Fox Rothschild Reps Riot Games in Trademark Suit Over Video Game Controllers

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Law.com

What's Happening With the Concerns Over How Event Tickets Are Sold Online?

The November 2022 tech meltdown of online access that slowed or barred consumers from buying tickets from Ticketmaster for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, her first since 2018 and the largest one-day ticket demand Ticketmaster had ever faced, generated worldwide coverage and outrage from her fans. But the incident also resulted in a sizzling convergence of many of the issues that have plagued online sales of live events for years.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Razin Kane Sues Raising Cane's

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar.
1 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Club Takes Swing at MLB's Decision to Reduce Minor League Teams

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the document here.
1 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Evidence Against Fox News in Del. Case May Support Strongest-Ever Argument for Actual Malice

Attorneys with experience in defamation law say they can't remember another case, in Delaware or otherwise, in which a plaintiff had such a high likelihood of being able to win against a media company.
6 minute read

Law.com

Music Rates and Royalties 2023: Past, Present and Future

Part One of a Two Part Article Analysis of the most important music rate and royalty areas, both past, present and future and how and by whom they are set or determined as well as the effect that legislation, litigation, the Copyright Royalty Board and the Department of Justice have had on the process.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

NFL Fails to Push Brian Flores' Racial Discrimination Claims Into Arbitration 

Flores' descriptions of racial discrimination—and those of co-plaintiffs Steve Wilks and Ray Horton, who coached for the Arizona Cardinals and the Tennessee Titans, respectively—are recent examples of the NFL's "systematic discrimination" of Black players and coaches and are "incredibly troubling," U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni of the Southern District of New York ruled.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Breaking Down the NFT License Agreement for the Pre-Super Bowl Rihanna Song NFT That Entitles Owners to a Percentage of Future Digital Streaming Royalties

Ahead of Rihanna's Super Bowl LVII Halftime performance, someone put NFTs of her hit song, "B**** Better Have My Money," up for sale. What implications does the novel drop have for future NFTs in the music industry?
5 minute read

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