New regulations take effect starting January 1, 2024 requiring most non-public businesses to file beneficial ownership information statements with the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.  

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​The state of California has recently issued a booklet regarding safe business reopening practices. That document is available at https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/employer-playbook-for-safe-reopening--en.pdf.
 
Previously OSHA issued its own similar booklet which is available at https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3990.pdf.

Eisen recently moderated a panel discussion sponsored by industry trade organization, OTT.X, focusing on new business and licensing models, international growth, new formats, new entrants, mergers and acquisitions changes in technology and viewers interests of the OTT streaming industry.

Panelists included:
 
Erick Opeka Cinedigm Digital Networks
Gary Delfiner - WatchFreeFlix,
Kirby Grines - 43Twenty
Cameron Douglas – Fandango
Jake Ludington – Google

Watch the panel below.
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The AMPTP and, separately, the Hollywood guilds have issued their respective guidance as to film production in the age of COVID-19. The County of Los Angeles has also issued its rules. All three documents are available below.

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                The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) includes a “safe harbor” provision which specifies that a “service provider” is not liable for copyright infringement due to the actions of a third-party using the service provider’s facilities (17 USC 512; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512).

                The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) provides a “safe harbor” for certain online content providers (a “service provider” in the parlance of the Copyright Office and related laws) from liability for copyright infringement. This can be found at 17 USC 512 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512) and more details are available here.
 
                What is often overlooked is that for a service provider to be able to avail itself of the “safe harbor,” the service provider must designate a “Designated Agent” and must register the Designated Agent with the Copyright Office every three years.

There were a number of federal copyright cases over the past year that made clear the importance of timely registering works with the US Copyright Office.

Last month a new Writers Guild of America Basic Agreement took effect. The term of the agreement runs from May 2, 2017 through May 1, 2020. Rather than being an entirely new agreement, the 2017 agreement consists of amendments to the 2014 agreement.