The Ninth Circuit’s Eminem License vs Sale Decision

When you’re one of the biggest rap stars in the world, it shouldn’t be surprising to find news of one […]

By Bob Tarantino

Determining Public Domain Status

An important part of an entertainment lawyer’s job is determining what rights need to be obtained or licensed when a […]

By Bob Tarantino

Matt Galsor (writing at Law Law Land) answers the question: I Want to Write a Screenplay About a Guy Who […]

By Bob Tarantino

A further development (see our earlier posts on the topic: Previews of Music as Fair Dealing and Previews of Music […]

By Bob Tarantino

The New York Times had an excellent article last week (“The Music-Copyright Enforcers” by John Bowe) (hat tip: Miri Frankel at […]

By Bob Tarantino

Last week’s news story about the FBI demanding that Wikipedia remove from its website a high-quality image of the FBI’s […]

By Bob Tarantino

The idea/expression dichotomy is fundamental to copyright law, and can be stated with relative ease: “[I]n Canada, as in the […]

By Bob Tarantino

Last week’s promulgation by the United States’ Librarian of Congress of a rule which creates an exemption for certain classes […]

By Bob Tarantino

Further to an earlier posting here at the Signal (Copyright In Jokes), Nathan Fan, writing at IPilogue, has penned a […]

By Bob Tarantino

Given the volume of material available, we’ve decided to make our round-up of entertainment law questions posed and answered a […]

By Bob Tarantino

Never let it be said that entertainment lawyers are unwilling to give freely of their time and advice (readers should […]

By Bob Tarantino

Further to this earlier post about the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers […]

By Bob Tarantino