Explore the intersections of contract law, copyright law, and fair use at concerts, from parking tickets to public performance rights.
We all love going to concerts, but have you ever pondered the copyright and contract issues that permeate your experience, but have you ever pondered the copyright and contract issues that permeate your experience?
Experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi takes you on a fun, interesting journey through the fascinating copyright issues that dramatize our concert experiences. For litigators or transactional lawyers, no IP background is required, as you explore issues ranging from the public performance right to singers and bands doing covers to Green Day’s famous fair use case involving concert artwork.
This program will give you a great overview of copyright law fundamentals, the exclusive rights, infringement, and fair use. This will allow you to better understand what copyright law is doing in the background of our live music events, from the moment we arrive at the performance to our post-show uploading of our phone footage.
We also have a couple of fun sidebars: one on contract law related to parking structures and limitation of liability disclaimers on parking tickets, and another on artists seeking to restrict political candidates from playing their songs at concert venues.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
