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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These times continue to prompt hundreds of rock documentaries and biopics every year, with increasing questions over privacy, authorization, defama...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
This miscellany includes shorter legal stories; this Class covers issues of “orphan works” and archival and legal dimensions of specialized large m...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Several cases have arisen over musical lyrics, and the possible effect they can have on listeners. These include claims that songs urged suicide or...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
How bands resolve personal and professional issues can lead to the dissolution of the group, and how they govern themselves over complex issues fre...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Tom Petty died unexpectedly, at the top of his career. He had begun to re-mix and re-issue his classic “Wildflower” LP, which, after his death, led...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
With vinyl albums no longer the main form of releasing music, the values of classic old and rare LPs have increased into the millions, especially w...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
Many rock and roll entertainers have engaged in bad behavior while with the band or in their personal lives. These spill over into their profession...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
A number of successful songs were performed by groups that were not actual bands, but “fake” groups, assembled for projects that grew bigger as the...
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
Most concerts have complex legal affairs, and Coachella has used “radius clauses” to limit its participants to time and distance factors, to ensure...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Shakira has been in a long-running tax dispute with Spanish authorities, turning on her residence and tax domicile. While hers has played out in pu...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
The COVID pandemic struck the music industry very deeply, especially in issues of how to tour and perform safely, for bands, employees, and fans. W...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Frank Zappa’s will left management of his large musical archives and rights to his wife, who set up a corporation for their children, with unequal ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
Within the massive shift in monetizing artists’ archives, with many millions at stake, legal issues arise on how to apportion rights and credits. F...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
After 50 years, the authorship of this classic song was contested, and Roy Head’s former bandmember finally received the proper writing credit.
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
While Britney Spears’s conservatorship is the best known of such legal strategies, it is in a long trend of entertainers having such legal relation...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have begun to spread throughout music applications, from conveying pictures to transferring ownership documents. The buy...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
In unusual cases, such as the US capture of Gen Manuel Noriega and the ongoing battles for Hong Kong’s autonomy from China, music has played a prom...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
This iconic song, known for its wicked organ riff, was never credited to the member who added the distinctive sound. After nearly 3 decades, he sue...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
This class examines two unusual and pressing legal rock and roll issues: what is Revenge Rock, involving The Beatles, and what is the legal signifi...
- Added: Dec 28, 2020
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
More than a dozen years after James Brown’s death, his estate has been tied up in unusual legal problems, involving his marriage and his messy life...
- Added: Dec 28, 2020
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3