By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) Part 1 of this blog post discusses the Artist Revenue Streams project and provides insight on monetizing activities in the music industry and its related fields. Part 2 of this blog post provides helpful definitions of common industry terms relating to revenue. The Future […]
Back To The Future, Part 2: Serving Proper Notice Under Section 203
By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) This is the second part of a two-part series discussing Section 203 Terminations of Transfers. The first part summarizes Section 203, and the second part discusses proper Section 203 notice. Although both parts of the article focus on transfers of music copyrights, note that […]
Back To The Future, Part 1: Terminating Transfers of Copyright Under Section 203
By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) This is the first part of a two-part series discussing Section 203 Termination of Transfers. The first part summarizes Section 203, and the second part discusses proper Section 203 notice. Although both parts of the article focus on transfers of music copyrights, note that […]
Don’t Do A Daughtry: Why Your Band Should Have a Band Partnership Agreement
By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) On April 5, 2012, former members of the band Absent Element filed a lawsuit in North Carolina Superior Court alleging that their former singer defrauded them out of thousands of dollars of royalties for four songs they claim they wrote as a group. What […]