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Mar 14 Ninth Circuit’s last step up Stairway to Heaven case favors Led Zeppelin.

Posted at 15:45h By Dane Johnson in Copyright Law

The Ninth Circuit this week released its opinion in the en banc rehearing of 2014 music copyright case Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin.1 The opinion follows rehearing of the Skidmore appeal first argued in 2018 before a three-judge panel.2 (Federal case appeals are initially heard by...

Feb 19 ALI’s proposed Restatement of Copyright Law could put creators at risk

Posted at 08:28h By Dane Johnson in Copyright Law

The American Law Institute (“ALI”) recently reached Chapter 3 in its controversial project to compile copyright law into a Restatement. Non-lawyers are likely unfamiliar with these treatises, which essentially synthesize judicial decisions from many jurisdictions to "restate" the general consensus of the law about a...

Oct 22 Copyright termination likely to alter future for major studios as film creators assert rights.

Posted at 11:58h By Cassandra Dawn in Film and Television

The November 1 U.S. release of Terminator: Dark Fate once again reunites Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor character with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 terminator to save the future from the past. From an entertainment lawyer’s viewpoint, however, current events involving copyright in the first film in the...

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Mar 14 Ninth Circuit’s last step up Stairway to Heaven case favors Led Zeppelin.

Feb 19 ALI’s proposed Restatement of Copyright Law could put creators at risk

Oct 22 Copyright termination likely to alter future for major studios as film creators assert rights.

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