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December 6, 2016

Five Mistakes Musicians Make And How to Avoid Them

Mistakes Musicians Make

The Seay Firm has entered its sixth year of business, which has me reflecting on some of the most common mistakes musicians make, and how they can avoid making them. This list isn’t exhaustive and it may not even reflect the five most common mistakes musicians make. It’s not like I really index these things. But, hey, […]

Filed Under: Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, Uncategorized Tagged With: ImmersiveATL, legal, mistakes artists make, Paid In Full, tourdiy

September 19, 2016

Paid In Full: How to Collect Royalty Payments

Below is the full text of an article that was broken up and initially published on Immersive ATL. You recorded an album and released it online. Now you just sit back and wait for the checks to roll in, right? If only it were that easy. Last year, a Berklee College of Music report found […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Exclusive Rights, Licensing, Public Performance Right, Sound Recording, SoundExchange, Uncategorized Tagged With: AdRev, artist revenue streams, ASCAP, Audiam, BMI, CDBaby, digital performance royalties, Harry Fox, IndMusic, Marmoset, mechanical license, music streaming, performance rights organization, Public performance royalties, SESAC, SiriusXM, SoundExchange, Soundstripe, Spotify, TuneCore, YouTube

August 15, 2016

Mid-August Status Update: Seay Firm Doings and Happenings

August has been (and will continue to be) a busy month here at The Seay Firm. First, in case you’ve missed it, Immersive ATL has been running an article I wrote. I’ll be posting the article in full on this site (and the first installment is, in fact, already posted here), but here are the links […]

Filed Under: Background, Entertainment Law, Law Practice, Music Industry Musings Tagged With: AJC Decatur Book Festival, Criminal Records, Immersive ATL, Record Label Fest, State Bar of Georgia Entertainment and Sports Law Section, SXSW

July 7, 2016

Paid in Full 01: The Basics

I was recently asked to contribute a series of articles on artist revenue streams to Immersive Atlanta. What follows is the first installment of that series. And here is a link to the article as posted on the Immersive Atlanta site. PAID IN FULL is a new limited weekly series written by Atlanta entertainment lawyer […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Exclusive Rights, Music Streaming Services, Public Performance Right, Sound Recording, SoundExchange, Spotify Tagged With: artist revenue streams, Copyright, digital performance royalties, music streaming, public performance, Public performance royalties, revenue streams

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