By Marc Jacobson, Esq. and Jerome M. Hesch, Esq. In the past, recording artists frequently entered into agreements with record labels through a loan out corporation which two recent cases confirm had the effect of eliminating their ability to exercise the statutory termination right, as codified...
By Marc Jacobson, Esq. When Governor Cuomo signed into law the budget for New York State on April 3, 2020, not only did New York become the first state to address federal legislation regarding the CARES Act, which provides financial relief to businesses and others as...
This article will discuss how a film producer can turn the New York State Film Tax Credit Program for Production (really a rebate) available in New York State into cash to be used for the production of a film. We assume the film will be...
By Marc Jacobson There’s a new app being adopted by lots of people who use iOS devices, FaceApp. This app relies on artificial intelligence to take an image, and change it – make the image older, younger, smiling, with new hair color, change the nature of...
A New York court recently decided that even though the defendant employer didn’t sign the plaintiff’s employment contract, a claim against the employer for unpaid severance embodied in the agreement was validly presented. Lord v. Marilyn Model Management, Inc., 2019 Slip Op 05093 (App. Div....
Help your clients make money from their works This is a big year for copyright in the United States. For the first time in 20 years, on Jan. 1, 2019, works first published in the United States in the early 20th century fell into the public...
A prominent photographer was engaged by the defendants to create images to use in a certain specified manner. At the conclusion of the term of the license agreement, the defendants continued to use the images beyond the scope of the license, and for purposes not...
Film remains a director’s medium, considering that the director will always give shape and vision to the writer’s words. Film remains a director’s medium, considering that the director will always give shape and vision to the writer’s words. Further, the director is frequently involved in the...
The grand scheme regarding the term of copyright protection in the U.S., for the first time in 20 years, is in full bloom. On January 1, 2019, works first published in or before 1923 fell into the public domain – making them free to copy...
In a very unusual move, in support of its writer members, during this period when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has asked its members to fire their agents, the WGA last night agreed to pay to managers and lawyers of writers, the fees...