Business Partner Steven Goldberg and Business Associate Brian Karp published “New Use Is An Old Story,” which appeared in the August issue of MultiChannel News.
In the article, Goldberg and Karp address the repeating legal issue in this age of technological innovation: How should new technologies be treated under old license grants not explicitly addressing the new technology?—specifically, with regard to whether cable rights extend to the iPad.
Goldberg and Karp explain that courts have examined existing license agreements and new technologies in a “new use” line of jurisprudence and caution content owners and distribution providers to carefully consider and precisely agree on the scope of rights they grant when entering into future content licensing agreements.