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June 2, 2015

Is Your Trademark Registrable or “Merely Ornamental”?

Guest post by Taylor Josey, rising 3L at the University of Georgia School of Law Is your trademark registrable or “merely ornamental”? There are a number of factors that must be considered when deciding whether to register a trademark. For instance, one must do a search to see whether a similar registered trademark already exists, […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Entertainment Law, Merely Ornamental, Trademark, Trademark Registration Tagged With: acquired distinctiveness, merely ornamental, ornamental, secondary meaning, trademark, trademark registration, USPTO

May 5, 2015

Should You Trademark Your Name?

I field a lot of questions from clients about whether they should “trademark” their name. Of course, what those clients really mean is whether they should register their name or logo or both with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Although I can’t answer that question for you, I can provide a quick […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Trademark, Trademark Registration Tagged With: common law trademark, international class, registered trademark, secondary meaning, trademark, trademark search, United States Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO

February 17, 2015

A Musician’s Guide to Metadata: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

By Michelle Davis, UGA Law Class of 2015 Metadata, generally speaking, is data that describes other data. In the context of music, metadata is the identifying and descriptive information embedded in a digital song file. For example, when you play a song in iTunes, metadata is used to populate the “artist,” “song title,” and “album” fields. […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Entertainment Law, Metadata, Music Industry Insights, Uncategorized Tagged With: ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, BandsInTown, BMI, Content ID, Future of Music Coalition, itunes, Mediabase, metadata, Nielsen BDS, performance rights organization, SESAC, Shazam, SoundExchange, SoundScan, The Music Business Toolbox, YouTube

November 18, 2014

The Seay Firm Celebrates Three Years of Business

Three years and counting – that’s how long The Seay Firm has been in existence. A lot has changed during that time. Although I’m still located at The Goat Farm Arts Center, I’m now in a new and better space downstairs from my old office. If you haven’t made it out to the GF yet, you should […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Client Roster, Entertainment Law, Law Practice Tagged With: #weloveatl, Loeb & Loeb, Misfit Ideas, Olivia Clark, Spotify, The Seay Firm, Working Title Playwrights

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