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 […]
Biting the Bullet: How to Register A Copyright
This article will help answer the question of how to register a copyright. As you may recall from the last update to this blog, there are basically three main benefits to registration: (1) it creates a presumption of ownership and validity, so long as you register within five years of the date on which you release […]
The Thirty-Five Dollar Dilemma : Should You Register Your Copyright?
Should You Register Your Copyright? So you’ve finally written that song you’ve had in your head for ages. Or maybe it’s that short story you’ve been meaning to write. Or a work of visual art. Like most artists, you’re proud of what you’ve accomplished. The work you created means something to you, and you’d like […]