First of all, a gloat with my learned friends. If they ever sneer at you, asking “What do lawyers really do? Why do you want to collect all that money? Isn’t it just to write ‘heretobefore’?”, wave this judgement in their faces. Good lawyers help clients avoid losing money by…
Author: Rotimi Fawole
Last week, Adele’s manager, Jonathan Dickins, was reported as saying during an interview that streaming is the future whether musicians liked it or not. His comments followed news that Taylor Swift had pulled her entire catalogue from Spotify, the world’s most popular streaming service. Taylor Swift is not the first…
News reached us in Nigeria a few days ago that someone (a man named Nicholas Opara) had applied for and received approval from the USPTO to register the word “Nollywood” as a trademark in the United States. At first it didn’t seem to me like something anyone should worry about…
Startup and tech buffs love disruption, and for good reason too. Technology has intervened, over the course of human development, to change existing business models and sometimes make them obsolete. Usually, after some initial resistance, the market follows the disruption and old businesses either [try to] adapt, like Blockbuster or close…
In a recent piece for Premium Times, Michael Abimboye highlighted a new trend in the entertainment industry which, if true, presents an interesting legal situation. According to the piece, in the wake of the mass recruitment of musicians as brand ambassadors by telcos, many have been effectively precluded from working with ambassadors…