Cardozo AELJ

The Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal invites you to: Trophies for the Empire

Registration: To register, click on the flyer or follow the link here: CLE Affirmation Form: Speakers’ Biographies: Trophies for the Empire – Speaker Biographies Trophies for the Empire CLE Materials: The Rightness and Utility of Voluntary Repatriation Lord Elgin…

Managing Editor
February 22, 2021

Reddit v. Robinhood: Class Action Lawsuit Filed Amidst Market Manipulation Allegations

The last few weeks have been a hectic (or dare-I-say volatile) time for traders. During the month of January, GameStop’s stock has astronomically soared from $18, reaching a peak as high as $483 per share. The “group” responsible for this…

Jacob Maslavi
February 17, 2021

Force Majeure and the Entertainment Industry During COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of life, it has had a colossal effect on the production of TV shows and the contractual obligations of the various parties involved. While the production of almost all motion pictures…

Zachary Karetsky
February 17, 2021

Things We Almost Forgot About During the Pandemic: Brexit and Trademark Implications

For the past eleven months, the world has been focused on one thing – the Coronavirus pandemic. And how could we not? COVID-19 has disrupted life as we knew it, effected virtually every industry, and prompted every email written in…

Rachel Kaminetzky
February 17, 2021

Will the Open Library be Forced to Close?

The Wayback Machine is a well-known resource to law school journal editors and many other people. For editors, it is a tool to confirm the accuracy of claims cited using webpages that are no longer accessible or behind a paywall.…

Chani Morgenstern
February 8, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission’s ‘Made in America’ Policy Has Disincentivized Domestic Production but Supply Chain Issues Associated with Coronavirus May Incentivize Reshoring

Americans are proud of their domestic incorporations, sourcing, and/or production and want to market as such. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is a federal agency charged with the authority to regulate unfair and deceptive advertising in the marketplace. If a…

Managing Editor
February 8, 2021

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…

Natalie Linn
February 1, 2021

We Survived 2020 and the Mechanical Licensing Collective is Now in Full Effect… But How Exactly Does it Work?

The music industry’s widely anticipated Mechanical Licensing Collective (“MLC”) officially went into effect at the beginning of January 2021. The MLC, which was created via the passage of the Music Modernization Act (“MMA”) in 2018, was created to administer a…

Daniela Brumer
February 1, 2021

Who Cares if It’s an Executory Contract?

The bankruptcy code provides a debtor with the power to either reject or assume an executory contract. The debtor must decide 60 days after filing for chapter 7 or before the reorganization confirmation in a chapter 11 case, to reject…

Shaul Sultan
January 25, 2021

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…

Paige Frankel
January 25, 2021