On September 28, 2024, Governor Newsom of California signed the “Freelance Worker Protection Act” (FWPA), into law which will take effect on January 1, 2025. The bill expands protections for freelance workers by requiring private companies who hire independent contractors for certain professional services to provide written agreements specifying certain terms and outline certain deadlines

September 24, 2024 – New York, NY – Cowan, DeBaets is pleased to announce that corporate M&A partner Stuart Goldfarb has been appointed to the prestigious Sport Management Advisory Council of the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University. Led by David Falk, the Council is comprised of a who’s who in

May 10, 2023 – Sarah Conley Odenkirk, co-head of the firm’s Art Law practice group, has been elected to the board of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Sarah joins a diverse group of artists, curators, museum directors, scholars and arts professionals nationwide. Sarah has a core practice in fine art, public art, blockchain technology, A.I., and

Drake, The Weeknd, and other artists’ best bet to stop AI-generated vocal imitators under right of publicity laws—which generally protect one’s name, image, and likeness from being exploited without permission—attorneys said. But unlike copyright and trademark law, the right of publicity is based entirely on state laws. Some like New York and California provide explicit

Generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) platforms allow anyone to create artwork from the complex to the beautiful and bizarre by typing a text “prompt.” The rising popularity and use of such platforms have not only generated images, but controversy involving complex legal and ethical gray areas. Nancy Wolff, Scott Sholder, and Elizabeth Safran provide an overview

Nancy Wolff and Sarah Odenkirk recently published an article in ABA’s Landslide Magazine: Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) may be used to manage intellectual property rights but must include clearly articulated governance and ownership parameters. Co-Heads of CDAS’s Art Law Team, Nancy Wolff and Sarah Odenkirk, provide practical guidance to understanding what rights can be licensed, what

March 31, 2023 — Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images, represented by Nancy E. Wolff and Benjamin S. Halperin of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP (CDAS), have defeated an international copyright infringement suit that was filed against them in New York federal court.   The plaintiff, a photographer who worked for AFP for years in

CDAS is pleased to announce a new co-head of the firm’s entertainment practice, new co-heads of the firm’s Los Angeles office, a partner promotion, and further development of the art law group.   Frederick P. Bimbler (Fred) is joined by Caitlin S. DiMotta in heading up the firm’s entertainment practice. With almost 30 years’ experience

Can You Copyright That? CDAS Attorneys Scott Sholder, Benjamin Halperin, Nancy Wolff, & CeCe Cole are representing Japanese art collective, teamLab who is suing a Los Angeles museum for allegedly copying its Instagram-friendly art installations. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/teamlab-museum-of-dream-space-lawsuit-2105207  

Congratulations to CDAS Partners Briana Hill, Simon Pulman, and Benjamin Jaffe for being recognized in Variety’s Legal Impact Report 2022. https://lnkd.in/gY8rSnEZ