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Carlton Fields

No Password Required: From Heavy Metal to the Front Lines of Cyber Innovation

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Jon Schipp, the “Ric Flair of Cybersecurity,” is the senior director of inorganic growth strategy at Rapid7. Jon mixes cyber technical mastery, business acumen, and stage presence to identity mergers and partnerships for his...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The NO FAKES Act: Including the Potential Federal Right of Publicity in Catalog Acquisitions

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Among the most dominant trends in the music industry over the past decade has been the proliferation of investment in catalogs of musical compositions and sound recordings. While many investors’ theses focus solely on the...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Taylor’s Version: A “Mastermind” in IP Ownership

After years of contractual entanglements, public disputes and strategic reinvention, Taylor Swift has achieved something few global recording artists have: She now owns the master recordings of her entire musical catalog....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

The Pitch - March 2025

The Pitch newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to the music, film and television, fine arts, media, professional athletics, eSports, and gaming industries. The Pitch features a diverse...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

The Pitch - August 2023

The Pitch newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to the music, film and television, fine arts, media, professional athletics, eSports, and gaming industries. The Pitch features a diverse...more

Foster Garvey PC

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: Speedo Drops Russian Olympian Swimmer Evgeny Rylov's Sponsorship for Supporting Vladimir Putin,...

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Welcome back to the "Sports & Entertainment Spotlight." We’re just one week into March Madness, and already my predictions from last week are coming to fruition (if only I had the same luck picking winners of the games...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Practical Considerations for Reviewing Entertainment Agreements in M&A Transactions

With content distribution methods evolving rapidly, major players within the entertainment industry are looking to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a means to strengthen their position and maintain market share. Industry...more

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Power Moves in the Sports Arena: Coca-Cola Buys Remaining Control of Sports Drink, BodyArmor, and 17-Year-Old Basketball Star...

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Part of what I love about having a Sports Law practice is exactly what makes it difficult to cram everything I want to discuss into each week’s installment of the "Spotlight." No, it’s not that athletic prowess is not...more

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: What the Supreme Court Ruling in Alston v. NCAA Means for the Future of College Sports

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“The NCAA is not above the law.” Those seven words capped Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s searing concurring opinion issued in connection with Monday’s (June 21) unanimous (9-0) U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Alston v. National...more

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - June 2021

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Athletes and entertainers are people, too. Albeit, incredibly talented people, but deserving of the same treatment with dignity and respect as how we would want ourselves to be treated. For better or worse, sometimes their...more

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - May 2021 #4

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Throughout the United States, people are eagerly preparing for this Memorial Day Weekend (MDW), which marks the unofficial start of summer (not to mention those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country). If you listen...more

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Is Apple’s Shazam acquisition the next Facebook-Instagram-Whatsapp?

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On 6 February 2018, the EU Commission announced that it had accepted a referral request from a number of EU countries to assess Apple’s acquisition of Shazam, a UK based developer and distributor of music recognition...more

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