By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) Last week, Flagpole Magazine, the independent alt-weekly of Athens, Ga., published an article written by John Seay. The article discusses a handful of quick ways in which artists can make a few extra bucks, and is reprinted–with permission–in full below. Alms for the Poor: […]
Honey, They’re Playing Our Song: How Silversun Pickups Hit the Panic Switch on the Romney Campaign
by John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) Every so often, but at the very least once every presidential election cycle, a band makes national headlines by sending a politician a letter asking him or her to cease and desist from playing the band’s song at campaign events. The most recent band […]
ReDigi and the Monetization of Your Gently Used Digital Tracks
By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) Sure, it may have seemed like a good idea last night to download Snow’s 12 Inches of Snow, but what do you do the next day when buyer’s remorse sets in? Do you delete the album entirely so that your friends don’t see it […]
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 […]