COVID-19’s Toll on Independent Concert Venues

The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic this past year has been economically devastating for nearly every industry and market, but it has hit the arts and entertainment sectors especially hard. The impacts of long-term lockdown and the resulting recession will…

Who Cares if It’s an Executory Contract?

On Tuesday, January 13th, 2021, the lawyers for the cast and producers from the 2012 film “Silver Linings Playbook” argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that Spyglass Media Group, LLC, the group that purchased…

The King of Pop’s 2014 Hologram Performance Was Legal – But This Wasn’t a Green Light for All Postmortem Hologram Concerts: A Glimpse into the Various Intellectual Property Concerns Surrounding Hologram Performances

The 2014 Billboard Music Awards featured a Michael Jackson performance like no other: a holographic Jackson moonwalked once again as he sang “Slave to the Rhythm,” a song from the new, posthumously released Jackson album “Xscape.” The legality surrounding holographic…

Broadway: Adapting and Overcoming Post-COVID

On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, a Broadway usher tested positive for COVID-19. A day later, on March 12, 2020, one of New York’s most significant cultural institutions, and a symbol of the city itself, entered an indiscernibly long hiatus when…
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