The Law of Rock and Roll
Series produced by Michael Olivas
Michael Olivas -- the rock n roll law professor -- comments on legal issues involving entertainment, musicians and fans.
Michael Olivas -- the rock n roll law professor -- comments on legal issues involving entertainment, musicians and fans.
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Entertainers entertain, and rely upon a bevy of lawyers and business professionals to negotiate their contracts, handle their financial affairs, ar...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
In the year 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice approved a merger between the two largest live music businesses—to be governed by a complex consen...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
We have many platforms of social media, and most people think we are better off for these connections, but a growing number recognize the false int...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
A computerized song search from licensors BMI and ASCAP—turns up more than 140 song titles with the words “law,” “court/courtroom,” "lawyer," or "a...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Entertainment has had its share of cultural appropriation, especially when white artists took Black music and blanched it for white listeners. To b...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Today’s Class considers breakups, where bands take on special projects or collaborations, and it does not work out, leading to bad relations and of...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
An interesting pattern has emerged with classic artists and old materials that have not yet been published, turning legal tools into a plastic surg...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
As with many other intersections of entertainment law and the larger world with which it interacts, boycotts have become more common, more prevalen...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
The growth of documentaries about groups, individual rock and rollers, musical events, or the music business indicate a wide audience for these fil...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
While the laws concerning sexual assault accusations are not confined to the world of entertainment law, it sometimes seems so. Serious attention w...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
When I was a young boy, first falling in love with rock and roll music, the only messages I wanted to hear were on commercial radio and television....
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
If there were any single musical event from my youth that I wish I could travel to in a time-machine to attend, it would be Woodstock, the calamito...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is a classic song, instantly recognizable to the many fans who recall the band in their heyday. They were sued ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
One of the changing norms and business practices of rock and roll has been how artists go about releasing their music to their fans and to the worl...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
The late economics professor Alan B. Krueger published his last book, just after his untimely death, "Rockonomics, A Backstage Tour of What the Mus...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
As I was putting my notes together for this Class, about two of my favorite domains (music and the movies), Peter Fonda died, at the age of 79, hav...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
It is said that the only sure things are death and taxes. Our Class today is what can happen even to the most litigious and successful entertainers...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
What do Def Leppard, Prince, The Everly Brothers, and Taylor Smith have in common? Would it surprise you to know that these singers either re-recor...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
Eminem is arguably among the best and most successful rappers in rock and roll, still on an incredible career trajectory that excites and provokes,...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
Charles Manson’s life and death occasioned several interesting legal issues. Quentin Tarantino’s fascinating Manson movie also reveals the role of ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 4
