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December 9, 2013

The Seay Firm LLC’s Much-Anticipated, Mega-Important “Best Albums of 2013” List and Accompanying Spotify Playlist

John Seay is a former musician, tour manager, and music journalist-turned-entertainment attorney at The Seay Firm LLC, where he practices exclusively in the areas of entertainment law, intellectual property law, and small business law.  His clients are artists and arts-related small businesses.  He listens to a lot of music.  You can read more about John […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Best Albums, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Musings Tagged With: Bass Drum of Death, Belle Adair, Best Albums 2013, Best Albums of the Year, Best of 2013, Big Black Delta, Blood Orange, Boards of Canada, Chance The Rapper, Chvrches, Courtney Barnett, Danny Brown, Darkside, David Bowie, Dead Gaze, Deerhunter, Diarrhea Planet, Holy Youth, How to destroy angels_, Justin Tuberville, Kacey Musgraves, King Krule, King Tuff, Kurt Vile, Les Paul Pointillistic, M.I.A., Mice Parade, Mikal Cronin, Money Mark, New Madrid, Nine Inch Nails, of Montreal, Parquet Courts, Phosphorescent, Preston Lovinggood, Rhye, Sanders Bohlke, SDX, Sky Ferreira, Son Lux, Spotify, Spotify playlist, Steven Gunn, Tedo Stone, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Vampire Weekend, Water Liars, William Tyler, Wooden Wand, Wooden Wand & The World War IV

November 26, 2013

John Seay Interviewed for Story on GoldieBlox/Beastie Boys Lawsuit

Earlier this week, John was interviewed by CBS Radio for a story on the high-profile lawsuit between girl’s toy company, GoldieBlox, and the Beastie Boys. John’s full thoughts on the issue will be presented in a future blog post. In the meantime, the CBS Radio article can be read here, and a screenshot of the […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Copyright, De Minimis, Elements of Copyright Infringement, Entertainment Law, Fair Use, Litigation, Music Industry Musings Tagged With: atlanta entertainment lawyer, Beastie Boys, CBS Radio, GoldieBlox, The Seay Firm

November 22, 2013

John Seay of The Seay Firm To Judge Eddie’s Attic Songwriter’s Open Mic Shootout 39

Last week I was asked to be a judge at the Eddie’s Attic Bi-Annual Songwriter’s Open Mic Shootout 39 (read about it here), which will be on Saturday, November 23, 2013. I’ve done the judging thing before, but never at a competition as respected as this one. From what I’m told, the event consistently sells […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Musings Tagged With: Eddie's Attic, Eddie's Attic Open Mic Songwriter's Shootout, John Seay, Open Mic, Songwriter's Shootout, The Seay Firm

October 24, 2013

The Seay Firm Contributes Article to Copywrite

John Seay, founder of The Seay Firm LLC, recently contributed an article to the Fall 2013 edition of Copywrite, the newsletter for the State Bar of Georgia Entertainment and Sports Law Section.  The article, which you can download and read here, discusses recent attempts by Pandora to effectively lower the amount of royalties they pay […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, Public Performance Right Tagged With: ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, BMI, digital performance royalties, Entertainment Law, John Seay, Pandora, Public performance royalties, SESAC, SoundExchange, The Seay Firm

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