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September 23, 2016

Seay Firm Year Five Update

Holy smokes – The Seay Firm has been in business for five years (well, five years this November). A lot has changed in that time. I mean, I have less hair for one. There’s really so many people who played a big role in helping me to succeed. I’d like to list them all here, but I […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Entertainment Law, Law Practice Tagged With: AJC Decatur Book Festival, Americana Fest, AVVO, Criminal Records, Dot.s, ImmersiveATL, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Record Label Fest, Small Reactions, Super Lawyers

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

April 26, 2016

How to Start a Record Label

I field a fair number of calls from people who, despite what they’ve read about the decline of the recorded music industry, want to know how to start a record label. As it turns out, starting a record label is not too complicated; the hard part is figuring out how to make it a financially […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Entertainment Law, Incorporation, Licensing, Record Labels, SoundExchange Tagged With: ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, BMI, Digital Distributor, digital performance royalties, EIN, Entertainment Law, Incorporation, LLC, performance royalty organization, Publishing Admin, record labels, S-Corp, SESAC, SoundExchange

January 5, 2016

What You Should Know About Production Agreements

One form of agreement that clients regularly ask me to negotiate, and that clients regularly ask me to draft, is what’s known as a production agreement, also called a production deal. Production agreements are especially popular in the rap, hip-hop, and pop genres, although they may appear elsewhere as well. They should be entered into, […]

Filed Under: Entertainment Law, Production Agreements Tagged With: artist royalty, production agreement, production deal, publishing

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