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Monopoly The Game Meets Music Publishing

By ipandentertainmentlaw

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Hasbro is promoting the 75th anniversary edition of the Monopoly board game. Not only does it have a new circular game board, it contains clips of popular songs from artists such as Beyonce and Rihanna. So, how did they do that? Hasbro had to secure permission to use the underlying songs from the music publishers that [...]

Full post as published by Current Trends in Copyright, Trademark & Entertainment Law on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).

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