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December 6, 2016

Five Mistakes Musicians Make And How to Avoid Them

Mistakes Musicians Make

The Seay Firm has entered its sixth year of business, which has me reflecting on some of the most common mistakes musicians make, and how they can avoid making them. This list isn’t exhaustive and it may not even reflect the five most common mistakes musicians make. It’s not like I really index these things. But, hey, […]

Filed Under: Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, Uncategorized Tagged With: ImmersiveATL, legal, mistakes artists make, Paid In Full, tourdiy

September 19, 2016

Paid In Full: How to Collect Royalty Payments

Below is the full text of an article that was broken up and initially published on Immersive ATL. You recorded an album and released it online. Now you just sit back and wait for the checks to roll in, right? If only it were that easy. Last year, a Berklee College of Music report found […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Exclusive Rights, Licensing, Public Performance Right, Sound Recording, SoundExchange, Uncategorized Tagged With: AdRev, artist revenue streams, ASCAP, Audiam, BMI, CDBaby, digital performance royalties, Harry Fox, IndMusic, Marmoset, mechanical license, music streaming, performance rights organization, Public performance royalties, SESAC, SiriusXM, SoundExchange, Soundstripe, Spotify, TuneCore, YouTube

August 10, 2015

John Seay to Discuss Producer Agreements at Georgia Lawyers for the Arts

On Tuesday, August 11, 2015, Atlanta entertainment lawyer John Seay will lead a seminar on producer agreements at the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts offices at the King Plow Arts Center. The title of the seminar is “Producer Agreements 101: What They Are, What They Include, and How to Negotiate Them.” The seminar is free, although […]

Filed Under: Entertainment Law, Producer Agreements, Uncategorized Tagged With: atlanta entertainment lawyer, Entertainment Law, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, John Seay, mixer agreements, producer agreements, producers

February 17, 2015

A Musician’s Guide to Metadata: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

By Michelle Davis, UGA Law Class of 2015 Metadata, generally speaking, is data that describes other data. In the context of music, metadata is the identifying and descriptive information embedded in a digital song file. For example, when you play a song in iTunes, metadata is used to populate the “artist,” “song title,” and “album” fields. […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Entertainment Law, Metadata, Music Industry Insights, Uncategorized Tagged With: ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, BandsInTown, BMI, Content ID, Future of Music Coalition, itunes, Mediabase, metadata, Nielsen BDS, performance rights organization, SESAC, Shazam, SoundExchange, SoundScan, The Music Business Toolbox, YouTube

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