When I first began practicing entertainment law in the late 1990s, the music industry was dealing with the crisis of illegal peer-to-peer downloading of music via websites like Napster, LimeWire, and ...

When singer Dale Bozzio fell 40 feet from a room at a Holiday Inn in Downtown L.A. in 1976, breaking a kneecap, her elbows and her floating ribs and splitting open her head, she was not signed to a ...

If Bozzio had been signed to a label as an artist, it would’ve been her responsibility as an independent contractor to obtain health insurance on her own or through membership in a union like ...

Petitioner sought judicial approval of two contracts—a music publishing, and exclusive recording agreement—for services of a 15 year old minor. If they were approved, the minor could not disaffirm ...