Attorney Stanton "Larry" Stein is head of Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George LLP's Entertainment and Media Department. He also is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Law.
In this panel discussion held at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Forum, panelists Lawrence Henkel, Marty Singer, Patti Glaser, Larry Stein and Robert Schwartz discuss some of the hottest issues in entertainment law litigation today – issues like copyright infringement, copyright infringement and fair use, profit participation, and artist-manager disputes.
In this segment of a panel discussion held at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Forum focusing on entertainment litigation, the panelist Robert Schwartz runs through some recent developments in copyright infringement litigation, for example MGM v. Grokster, and Warner Bros. v. Napster and how federal courts are construing ownership and consumer rights in copyright infringement matters. He explains how these cases and others distinguish between “active” and “passive” inducement to infringe on copyrights, as well as what “primary” and “secondary” infringement are, and raises some questions which remain unsettled as to what constitutes copyright infringement in the internet age.
In this segment of a panel discussion held at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Forum focusing on entertainment litigation, the panelists discuss the “making available” test of copyright infringement, and run down the recent case law on filesharing and copyright infringement.
In this segment of a panel discussion held at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Forum focusing on entertainment litigation, the panelists discuss recent case law involving disputes between artists and their management – such as issues of managers illegally procuring work for their artists, the role of interstate commerce guidelines in artist-manager arbitration, why the California Talent Agency Act can, unfortunately, be used as a get-out-of-jail free card by artists wishing to break with their managers, and more.
In this segment of a panel discussion held at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Forum focusing on entertainment litigation, the panelists discuss recent case law involving video games, artist royalties and copyright law.
In this segment of a panel discussion held at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Forum focusing on entertainment litigation, the panelists discuss recent case law involving artists’ participation in company profits.
