Should I register my script at the WGA or the Copyright Office? Why?
I am asked this question all the time. My answer is registration at the Copyright Office is much better, and significantly more valuable. With apolog...
28 June, 2021Selected by Chambers USA every year since 2005, The Best Lawyers in America for 2019 and 2020, and by Super Lawyers since 2008 as one of the top Entertainment Lawyers in NYC, Jacobson built his unique practice by focusing on his two passions: music and film.
In the music area, he represented the estates of George & Ira Gershwin, Elvis Presley and Duke Ellington and important songwriters such as Jimmy Webb, Shakira, James Brown and Holland-Dozier-Holland. He represented the digital jukebox industry in its negotiations for performing rights, as well as the Cheer and Spirit industry regarding its use of music. He handles sophisticated music publishing and recording transactions, as well as negotiations to license the use of music by non-traditional music users.
I am asked this question all the time. My answer is registration at the Copyright Office is much better, and significantly more valuable. With apolog...
28 June, 2021With more songwriters administering their own catalogs, and the growth of the music publishing industry generally, songwriters and publishers should b...
27 June, 2021Establishes Group Registration for Works on an Album of Music (“GRAM”) By Marc Jacobson, Esq. Under a new rule, the US Copyright Office will allow an ...
21 March, 2021Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was enacted in response to a very difficult decision made in May 1995 by a trial court judge in Nassau C...
26 January, 2021