Monthly Archives: June 2012
South Florida Entertainment Law
Lead attorney John F. Bradley, Esq. of the Bradley Legal Group P.A. was recently featured in a South Florida Business Journal article concerning local entertainment law. Click here to read the excerpt. Bradley Legal Group, P.A. are Intellectual Property lawyers, Entertainment lawyers and Music lawyers servicing clients in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, [...]
Digital Music: Sale or License?
Historically, musicians have entered into recording contracts with record labels for the sale of music and publishing agreements with publishers for the licensing of music. When recordings are sold, musicians receive a percentage of the sale, and when a song is published, i.e. placed in a movie, tv commercial, etc, a musician receives a percentage [...]
Atlanta vs. Pixar: Trademark Battle over “Brave”
Pixar has recently released a new fantasy movie named “Brave.” Disney, who owns Pixar, is attempting to register a trademark in “Brave,” but is experiencing significant difficulty. First is the baseball team the Atlanta Braves. The Atlanta Braves currently do not have a trademark on the word Brave, that being the singular use of “Braves.” [...]
Qualifying for DMCA Safe Harbor Protection
Much has been said recently about the qualifications of a website receiving “safe harbor” protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Receiving this protection is vital for any start up user generated content website, because the typical layout for this type of website is that a user uploads the content where the user may upload [...]