March, 2018

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Videographers Must Obtain Music Licensing Rights

Art Law Journal

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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Pleading Inconsistent Theories of Recovery

GDB Firm Blog

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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What the 5 Pointz Verdict Means to Graffiti Artists

Art Law Journal

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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Arbitration Clause Not "Incorporated By Reference"

GDB Firm Blog

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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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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?