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25 Key Points about Using Music in Your Business

USA - May 3 2017 Companies use music for the instant vitality, emotion, and specific mood that music can inject into a promotion, presentation, or a room. Companies…

Does the Fearless Girl Violate the Copyright of Wall Street’s Charging Bull?

USA - April 13 2017 In the late 1980's, artist Arturo Di Modica created a 7,000 pound bronze bull statue, "Charging Bull", and surreptitiously placed it in front of the…

Streaming Music Services in the Workplace. Which Business Use Is Permissible?

USA - February 15 2017 Thousands of recorded songs are easily available thanks to Pandora, Spotify, Amazon’s Prime Music, and other streaming music services. Under which…

Don’t Use Contest Rules Like These. A Real-Life Example of Deficient Contest Rules.

USA - January 14 2017 Recently, I encountered the following short paragraph that professed itself to be rules for a contest. The gist of the paragraph remains intact but I…

Adding Music to Your Company Video

USA - November 17 2016 Your company produces a short video. To make the video more interesting, your company adds a popular song as a soundtrack. Your company now wants to…

Obtaining Personal Consent and Release via Placard Notice. Does It Really Work?

USA - September 28 2016 Consent via Placard Your organization is hosting a festival, a seminar, a book-signing, a musical concert - or other event that will attract…

Legality of Fantasy Sports - Gambling or Not

USA - September 12 2016 The fantasy sports industry nearly imploded in 2015. While several factors fueled that near detonation, chief among them was a belief that fantasy…

Copyright Implications of Protecting Tattoos. Questions Raised by NBA 2K Video Game Lawsuit

USA - September 6 2016 NBA 2K is a video game series developed and released annually since 1999. Each game features animated, realistic versions of National Basketball…

Finer Points of Online Copyright Registration: the Single Application versus the Standard Application

USA - August 24 2016 Registering the copyright in your creative work seems relatively simple. After all, the copyright registration process requires only sending the U.S…

Tragedy Strikes Contest Promotion

USA - August 21 2016 Contests are designed to increase public awareness of a business or organization. Increase it in a positive way. That objective goes horribly awry if…