Greenspoon Marder LLP

MARCH 27, 2018

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. Over the past few years, graffiti artists, also referred to as street artists, have started filing copyright lawsuits over the alleged improper and unauthorized use of their work. Sometimes the works in question are reproduced on clothing, other times the works are featured in advertising and marketing campaigns. While many artists claim the unauthorized use of their work makes them look like corporate sell-outs and diminishes their “street cred,” which is an important fac

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Art Law Journal

MARCH 13, 2018

Steve Schlackman. For years, videographers have used music as a backdrop in their films, short videos, and documentaries. The law around music licensing is pretty clear: a license is required to use copyrighted music in a video. This has been a standard practice since the dawn of music recordings. Yet, throughout the video industry, we find music being […].

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GDB Firm Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

Bucking a recent trend, a lower court refused to dismiss potentially "duplicative" causes of action in a contractor's complaint, allowing the contractor to assert both "legal" and "equitable" claims.

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Art Law Journal

MARCH 1, 2018

Louis Smoller. The 5 Pointz $6.7 million verdict will set an important precedent for graffiti artists in future cases involving the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA).

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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GDB Firm Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

The Appellate Division reminds us yet again that not everything in a prime contract gets "incorporated by reference" into the subcontract. Here, the arbitration clause binding the contractor to the owner did not flow down to the subcontractor.

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