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\n\tIlene S. Farkas \n\tFresh from successfully defending Ed Sheeran, Warner Music and Sony Music Publishing from an infringement claim on Sheeran\u2019s \u201cThinking Out Loud\u201d levelled by the Marvin Gaye estate, Pryor Cashman is representing more than 100 defendants in the \u201cDem Bow\u201d copyright infringement case that the plaintiffs claim encroaches a drum pattern they claim to own. Over 1,800 songs and recordings are involved, as are superstars Justin Bieber, Pitbull, Becky G and Anitta.<\/p>\n \n\tBound and DSP determined: <\/strong>\u201cThe songwriters and publishers are bound by a compulsory license. They don\u2019t have the ability to say, \u2018no,\u2019\u201d notes Scibilia. \u201cSo if Spotify were to tell Sony Publishing, \u2018We want to license your catalog,\u2019 all Spotify has to do is get a compulsory license, pay royalties to the Mechanical Licensing Collective and pay the statutory rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ilene S. FarkasCo-chair, litigation group music group, and copyright, media & entertainment litigation, and music litigation practicesFrank P. ScibiliaCo-chair, music group and copyright, media & entertainment litigation, music litigation, and music transactions practicesBenjamin K. SemelCo-chair, music group, and chair, AI interdisciplinary groupJames S. SammataroCo-chair, music group and media & entertainment litigation practice Fresh from successfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2366368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[30218,344480,445118,22334,409259,459868,272527,344628],"class_list":["post-2366367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-attorneys","tag-beyonce","tag-lawyers","tag-music-legal-elite","tag-shaboozey","tag-weird-al-yankovic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Music-Legal-Elite-2025-Meet-the-Attorneys-Behind-the-Top.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366369,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366367\/revisions\/2366369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Co-chair, litigation group music group, and copyright, media & entertainment litigation, and music litigation practices
Frank P. Scibilia
Co-chair, music group and copyright, media & entertainment litigation, music litigation, and music transactions practices
Benjamin K. Semel
Co-chair, music group, and chair, AI interdisciplinary group
James S. Sammataro
Co-chair, music group and media & entertainment litigation practice<\/strong><\/p>\n