On Thursday, September 5, John Seay spoke to David Barbe’s class at the UGA Music Business Program in Athens, GA. John makes the trip to UGA every semester to speak to a class in the music business program, but this was his first time speaking in Barbe’s class. Barbe is also the director of the UGA […]
SoundExchange To Make Music Licensing Easier for Podcasts in 2020
SoundExchange and SourceAudio have teamed up to make music licensing easier for podcasters starting early next year. In collaboration with Podcastmusic.com, this will be a one-stop shop for podcasters that will offer licensing for label and publisher-owned music. Participants will have access to Podcastmusic.com’s database of 700,000 production and music bed tracks that include a global license […]
Understanding Georgia’s Film and Television Production Incentives
Over the last few years, Georgia has become a popular state for the film industry. Big budget productions that have filmed in the state recently include Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, Captain America: Civil War, The Hunger Games, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Those productions and others have chosen Georgia thanks, at least in great part, to aggressive […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Fair Use
What does a fair use trial take? Sometimes, a whole lot of grit. Credit: The New York Public Library, New York. The New York Public Library Digital Collections https://digitalcollections.nypl.org Every conversation I have with clients about fair use is really a conversation about their tolerance for risk. Instead of a definitive set of black and white […]