NYSBA SPRING 2011 | VOL. 22 | NO. 1 Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal A publication of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association Inside • Holocaust-Era Art Repatriation Claims • Time for a Change in Athletes’ Morals Clauses • The Performance Rights Act • Fair Market Value and Buyer’s Premium for Estate Tax • New York Museum Deaccessioning Purposes • EASL Annual Meeting • Lenz v. Universal Music Corporation • License v. Sale • Model Rules of Professional Conduct and Ethical Problems • Team Players and Individual Free-Speech Rights for Attorney-Agents Representing Professional Athletes • Copyright and Modern Art • Copyright Law for Dance Choreography • Florida Statute § 760.08 • Glory, Heartbreak, and Nostalgia of the Brooklyn Dodgers WWW.NYSBA.ORG/EASL NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION From the NYSBA Book Store > NEW! Counseling Content Providers in the Digital Age A Handbook for Lawyers For as long as there have been printing presses, there have been accusations of libel, invasion of privacy, intellectual property infringements and a variety of other torts. Now that much of the content reaching the public is distributed over the Internet, television (including cable and satellite), radio and fi lm as well as in print, the fi eld of pre-publication review has become more complicated and more important. Counseling Content Providers in the Digital Age provides an overview of the issues content reviewers face repeatedly. EDITORS Kathleen Conkey, Esq. Counseling Content Providers in the Digital Age was written Elissa D. Hecker, Esq. and edited by experienced media law attorneys from California Pamela C. Jones, Esq. and New York. 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Get the Information Edge 1.800.582.2452 www.nysba.org/pubs Mention Code: PUB1088 Table of Contents Page Remarks from the Chair .....................................................................................................................................................4 (Judith B. Prowda) Editor’s Note .......................................................................................................................................................................6 (Elissa D. Hecker) Pro Bono Update ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 Law Student Initiative Writing Contest .........................................................................................................................10 The Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship ...............................................................................................................11 NYSBA Guidelines for Obtaining MCLE Credit for Writing ......................................................................................12 EASL Legislation in New York State in 2010 .................................................................................................................13 (Bennett Liebman) Fair Use: A Regenerative Concept in the Law ..............................................................................................................18 (Carol J. Steinberg) California Dreaming: The Continuing Debate in California Over the Constitutionality of Eliminating the Statute of Limitations on Holocaust-Era Art Repatriation Claims .................................................................22 (David S. Gold) The Performance Rights Act: Finally Recognizing a Musician’s Civil Right to a “Fair Day’s Pay for a Fair Day’s Work” .................................................................................................................................................31 (Sohail Itani) Much Ado About New York Museum Deaccessioning ...............................................................................................37 (Amy J. Goldrich) Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section Annual Meeting ..................................................................................41 License v. Sale: The Impact on Royalties, Music Downloads, and the Music Industry ..........................................79 (Jacklyn A. Serpico) There’s No “I” in Team Sports Does being a team player compromise individual free-speech rights? ...............................................................87 (Ethan Bordman) Copyright and Modern Art: A Readymade Solution .................................................................................................101 (Glen Cheng) Equal Rights: City of Jacksonville Beach’s Department of Parks and Recreation Compliance with the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992: Florida Statute § 760.08 ....................................................................................110 (Brian Walton) Time for a Change in Athletes’ Morals Clauses: Why the Four Major Sports Need to Properly Defi ne the Limits of How Our Nation’s Role Models May Permissibly Act Off the Field .................................................126 (Timothy Poydenis) An Examination of the Relationship Between Fair Market Value and Buyer’s Premium for Estate Tax Purposes ...............................................................................................................................................................135 (Alanna Butera) Looking Through the Lenz: An Analysis of Lenz v. Universal Music Corporation and Its Impact on YouTube and the DMCA’s Safe Harbor Provision ................................................................................................139 (Tracy J. Keeton) The Scope of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and Ethical Problems for Attorney-Agents Representing Professional Athletes .........................................................................................................................152 (Sungho Cho) A Jeté in the Right Direction, Copyright Law for Dance Choreography: But Whom Does the Law Really Protect? ............................................................................................................................................................158 (Brooke Nuoffer) Krell’s Korner: Stealing Home—Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. v. Sed Non Olet Denarius, Ltd. and the Glory, Heartbreak, and Nostalgia of the Brooklyn Dodgers ................................................................................170 (David Krell) Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts .....................................................................................................................................203 NYSBA Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal | Spring 2011 | Vol. 22 | No. 1 3 Remarks from the Chair We begin 2011 with a licensing, trusts and estates, not-for-profi t and for-profi t record 1,694 members! There business entities and accounting, and social media and are as many reasons to join branding. Several EASL members were amongst the EASL as there are members. prominent speakers, including Carol Steinberg (Co-Chair For many members, our wide of EASL’s Pro Bono Committee), Christine Pepe (Co- variety of programs—both Chair of the Music and Recording Industry Committee), CLE and non-CLE—offer Tim DeBaets (Past EASL Chair), Innes Smolansky (EASL cutting edge information District Representative from the 2nd Judicial District), from top practitioners in the Elissa Hecker (Past EASL Chair, Co-Chair of EASL’s Pro entertainment, arts and sports Bono Committee, and Chair of EASL’s Publishing Com- law fi elds. Our most recent mittee) and Lesley F. Rosenthal, Vice President, General program was our highly Counsel and Secretary, Lincoln Center for the Performing successful Annual Meeting, Arts (Past Chair, NYSBA’s Commercial and Federal Liti- held at the New York Hilton. In the broadest sense, both gation Section, Member of the NYSBA Board of Directors, panels focused on stories profoundly affecting the lives of Member of the New York Bar Foundation, and Member of individuals. the NYSBA House of Delegates). I was honored to deliver the Keynote Address on “The Martha Graham Case: Who The fi rst panel, co-chaired by Carol J. Steinberg Owns Dance?”, and was joined at the podium by Janet and myself, addressed recent cases brought by heirs of Eilber, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Holocaust victims concerning the ownership of artworks Company. Special thanks go to Carol Steinberg, Elissa claimed to have been looted or sold under duress during Hecker and Peter Cobb, Program Offi cer, NYFA Learn- the Nazi era. The distinguished panel, comprised of law- ing/NYFA Consults, BUILD, for organizing this impor- yers representing both sides of several high-profi le cases, tant event for choreographers, dancers and counsel. included Donald