Posted in Client Activity, Life on the Row, Music Row News, Nashville on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Clay Walker’s "Fall" Video
Together with Clay Mills and Shane Minor, my new client Sonny Lemaire is one of three songwriters on Clay Walker’s new single, Fall, featured in the video link above. The song is currently climbing Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and, after a 31-week run so far, is breaking well into the top [...]
Posted in Digital Downloads, Entertainment Law, Internet Law, Music Industry, Music Law, RIAA Litigation on October 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
There appears to be a slight ripple of a trend among courts to take a stricter look at the evidence being presented by the RIAA in its crusade against digital downloads, based primarily on the evidence of user names and IP addresses assembled by their expert consultants, MediaSentry.
In the RIAA’s case against Jeff Dangler, [...]
Posted in Life on the Row, Music Industry, Music Row News, Nashville on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps Porter Wagoner should be remembered as the original “Rhinestone Cowboy” because of his penchant for sparkling two-piece rhinestone often adorned with wagon wheels and other cowboy themes — at one point he owned over 60 suits.
The longtime country music legend died at 8:25 p.m. CDT in a Nashville hospice Sunday night at the [...]
Posted in Digital Downloads, Life on the Row, Music Industry, Music Row News on October 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Earlier this week, Tom Baldrica, vice president of marketing at Sony BMG, announced that Heather McBee has been promoted to vice president of digital business. McBee, who has been with the label for 14 years, was formerly senior director of that department.
Baldrica said in a prepared statement:
“I’m so proud of this promotion. Heather has [...]
Posted in Digital Downloads, Entertainment Law, Internet Law, Music Industry on October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Propelled primarily by the sales of 2.5 million copies of the new Harry Potter book, Amazon’s profits reach ed the stratosphere in the 3rd fiscal quarter of 2007. The company announced its third-quarter earnings in an online conference call on Tuesday, announcing a profit of $80 million, three times the $19 million it earned in [...]
Posted in Client Activity, Life on the Row, Music Row News, Nashville on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
The Nashville Chamber Orchestra’s next installment of its Acoustic Cafe series is next Friday, November 2nd at 8 p.m. in the Grace Chapel, located in Lieper’s Fork, Tennessee. The event will feature resident musician, Darrell Scott, and the Acoustic All-stars, which, together with the NCO, consists of Dan Dugmore, Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss, Kenny Malone, [...]
Posted in Life on the Row, Music Industry, Music Row News, Nashville on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Early in October, Joey Lee, former CEO at Buddy Lee Attractions , left that agency to form 360 Artist Agency, a full-service talent agency. This ends a very long tenure for the namesake’s son at the helm of the famous Nashville agency.
Mr. Lee took several of his clients with him to the [...]
Posted in Entertainment Law, Music Industry, Music Law, RIAA Litigation on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On August 16, 2007, Doe No. 28 in the RIAA’s action captioned Virgin Records America, Inc. et al. v. Does 1-33 filed a motion to squash the subpoena issued to the University of Tennessee on the grounds that, one, it was unreasonable on its face and, two, it violates his rights under the Family [...]
Posted in Entertainment Law, Life on the Row, Music Industry, Music Row News, Nashville on October 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last week, the Country Music Association announced that the next President of its Board of Directors would be Randy Goodman, president of Lyric Street Records. Goodman, a native Nashvillian, received his bachelor of science in Political Science and Economics from David Lipscomb University. He also attended Belmont University’s Music Business College.
After graduation, Goodman [...]
Posted in Internet Law, Music Law, Personal Jurisdiction, tagged Internet Law, Personal Jurisdiction on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Back in 1999, my law clerk, J. Eric Crupi and I considered the topic of personal jurisdiction as applied to the Internet. In the resulting Law on the Row article, entitled “Lines in the Virtual Sand.” In the original article, Eric concluded that “the boundaries of personal jurisdiction in cyberspace have not been concretely defined, [...]
H.R. 4279 - Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007