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To learn more about any of the matters on our Case List, please contact our Director of Legal Services, Stacy Baygood Streur, at 312.837.3520, or sstreur@law-arts.org.

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Case #	Legal Category	Arts Category	Description
19-234 Pro Bono	Copyright Infringement, Disputes	Music	Dispute: Breach of Settlement Agreement: Music 19-234 Client wrote and recorded music that was used without authorization in several episodes of a television show. With the assistance of counsel, Client entered into a Settlement Agreement with the show's producers. Producer violated the settlement. Client needs help evaluating his claim. Overview of Copyright Issues in the Arts
19-395b Pro Bono	Disputes	Visual Art	Pending Litigation: Breach of Contract Defense 19-395 Visual artist was the victim of a scam perpetrated though a credit card processing system, and the credit card company filed an action to collect from the artist. Client needs counsel to represent him in the defense of this claim.
19-417 Pro Bono	Employment	Music	Employment: Classification of Employees. Orchestra 19-417 NFP orchestra needs counsel to help them understand how unemployment compensation requirements apply to their organization.
19-420 Pro Bono	Other	Film/TV	Content Clearance: Film. 19-420 Documentary film-maker, in a master's degree program, is producing a film about the challenges faced by three friends who left a cult like environment in which they had been raised. Client is concerned about a possible defamation claim and needs an attorney opinion letter to submit with his application for errors and omissions insurance. Representing the LCA Writer: Content Concerns
19-467 Pro Bono	Disputes	Visual Art	Dispute: Consignment of Art Agreement 19-467 Visual artist needs help enforcing his rights under the Consignment of Art Act, against a local gallery. Gallery is refusing to return his work or make payment. Materials Available
19-479 Pro Bono	Disputes, Landlord-Tenant	Literature, Music, Performance Art, Visual Art	Dispute: Landlord Tenant 19-479 Sound artist who hosts musical performances in his live/work space received a notice from the City of Chicago informing him that he needs a PPA license. Client needs help evaluating whether a PPA license or a PAV license is required for his shows. Materials Available
19-491 Pro Bono	Contracts	Dance, Performance Art	Contract Review: Dance 19-491 NFP dance group needs help evaluating whether there are any legal issues they need to address before offering programs that include both adolescent girls and adults.
19-509-2 Contingent Fee (PB Eligible)	Disputes	Film/TV, Performance Art, Theater, Visual Art	Pending Litigation: Right of Publicity 19-509 Actor was hired to perform in an advertisement. The hiring party is using the advertisement in media that is beyond the scope of the agreement. Litigation is currently pending in District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Client needs substitute counsel to represent him in the litigation.
19-549 Pro Bono	Disputes	Visual	Dispute: Consignment of Art Agreement 19-549 Visual artist needs help enforcing his rights under the Consignment of Art Act, against a local gallery. Gallery is refusing to return his work or make payment. Materials Available
19-558 Pro Bono	Trademark Protection	Music	Trademark: Renewal Application 19-558 Client's mark was cancelled due to failure to file a Section 8 Affidavit. Client needs help filing a request for reinstatement or a new application. Client is using the mark.
19-617 Pro Bono	Trademark Protection	Other	Trademark Registration: Fashion 19-617 Fashion designer needs help with trademark registration.
19-624 Pro Bono	Rights of Privacy and Publicity, Disputes	Film/T.V.	Right of Publicity: Film 19-624 Documentary film-maker needs help evaluating the risks associated with producing a true-crime film about a notorious criminal from the Chicago area who is now-deceased.
19-625-2 Contingent Fee (PB Eligible)	Contracts, Disputes	Visual Art	Dispute: VARA 19-625-2 Muralist was hired by a local restaurateur to create a mural for his new restaurant. Recently, client discovered that the restaurateur signed his own name to the front of her canvas and put it on display.
19-637 Pro Bono	Disputes, Commercial Litigation	Film/T.V.	Dipute: Collection: Non-payment for Services 19-637 SAG Voice-over artist performed in several commercial advertisements and needs help collecting the amount that the advertising agency owes her. Client has evidence, obtained with the help of SAG, that the voice-overs were used significantly in excess of the scope of the agreement.
19-646 Pro Bono	Disputes	Music	Dispute: Music Royalties: Portugal 19-646 Musician needs help collecting royalties. In collaboration with a rap artist Client wrote and recorded about a dozen tracks. Client wrote and played the music and the rap artist wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals. Songs off an album that came out in 2016 have been licensed and Client received one royalty payment. Recently, Client was able to secure an an accounting but no payment. Client needs legal help collecting the royalties that he is owed.
19-650 Pro Bono	Disputes, Personal Injury/Damage to Property	Comedy	Pending Litigation: Personal Injury Defense 19-650 Clients, members of a former sketch comedy group, are named defendants in a personal injury action. The plaintiff's injury was sustained during a performance by the comedy group. Clients need representation in the pending litigation.
19-653 Paying	Disputes, Landlord-Tenant	Visual	Pending Litigation: Landlord-side Eviction 19-653 Artist owns an apartment building and needs legal help with an eviction action that she filed pro se.
19-655 Pro Bono	Contracts	Music	Contract Review: Record Label Agreement 19-655 Country western musician needs counsel to review a Record Label Agreement.
19-658 Pro Bono	Not for Profit Advice	Literature	NFP: 19-658 Client is a North Carolina NFP with a 501(c) 3 tax exemption. Client would like to dissolve the NC NFP, set up an Illinois NFP and transfer the 501(c)3 tax exemption to the Illinois organization.
19-672	Contracts	Theater	Contract Negotiation: Co-Author Termination Agreement 19-672 Co-authors of a script for theater have dissolved their working relationship and are in the process of negotiating a termination agreement that includes future credits and on-going royalties. Client (one of the co-authors) needs legal help negotiating the terms of the agreement.
19-681 Pro Bono	Disputes	Film/T.V.	Dispute: Recovery of Film Footage 19-681 Graduate film student wrote the script for a short film and hired another student to do the filming. After a dispute their working relationship was terminated. The videographer promised to return the footage but never did. Client needs help recovering the footage so that he can complete the film.
19-695 Pro Bono	Contracts, Copyright Protection/Licensing	Film/TV	Contract Drafting: Film 19-695 Broadcast journalist who is producing a show spotlighting local arts-related businesses and events needs counsel to draft two agreements, a work-for-hire agreement for her videographer and a release for her interview subjects. Representing the LCA Filmmaker: Overview
19-699 Contingent Fee	Copyright Infringement	Visual	Dispute: Copyright Infringement: Visual Art 19-699 Visual artist recently discovered that one of her paintings, completed in 2014 and sold in 2015, has been copied by an Italian textile design company and transferred to two high end pieces of clothing that are being sold my major retailers worldwide.
19-701 Pro Bono	Not for Profit Advice	Literature, Music, Performance Art	NFP: Transfer of Assets and Name Change 19-701 Irish arts and culture NFP needs help structuring the transfer of assets to the NFP from a very small for-profit publishing corporation. The NFP also needs help with a name change.
19-713 Pro Bono	Other	Film/T.V.	Litigation: Motion to Unseal Records 19-713 Filmmaker is directing a documentary film about an important event in Chicago history and needs help securing a copy of a deposition, of a former politician, which is currently under protective order.
19-718 Pro Bono	Visa and Immigration	Dance, Music, Theater, Film/T.V.	Immigration: Music 19-718 Venezuelan music theater student who is in the US on a J-1 Visa, is graduating in May and needs help with an O-1 Visa application.
19-719 Paying	Copyright Protection/Licensing	Other, Visual	IP Protection and Copyright Registration: Visual Art 19-719 Visual artist with an idea for a patentable product needs help evaluating her options with regard to patenting. Client also needs help with copyright registration of signs that she created.
19-731 Pro Bono	Business Startup/Corporate	Music	Start-up: Music 19-731 Rock and alternative-rock musician needs help evaluating whether he should consolidate his music publishing company with his LLC. The LLC was set-up to market his music.
19-742 Pro Bono	Other, Landlord-Tenant, Not for Profit Advice	Music, Performance Art, Film/T.V.	NFP Dissolution: Theater 19-742 NFP theater group needs immediate help with dissolution. The theater's debts include amounts owed to the IRS, their employees and their landlord. They also have some assets of value.
19-771 Pro Bono	Not for Profit Advice	Other	NFP Start-up: Culinary 19-771 Group that was a program of a larger NFP needs help setting up their own NFP.

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