A major debate is being spawned by a recent article entitled “Should You Invest in the Long Tail,” written by Anita Elberse, an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The debate concerns the accuracy of Chris Anderson’s long tail theory, set out in great detail in his 2006 book, The Long Tail: [...]
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I was surfing around yesterday and discovered that my interview with DigiMusicTV.com, recorded in 2007, was recently posted on brightcove. Here it is in all it’s glory:
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One question clients often asked me is whether an idea can be protected. The question frequently arises when a client has an idea for a screenplay, or an outline for a story, or a unique title for a song or book, and wishes to submit or “pitching” that idea to a major movie house, publisher [...]
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Posted with the permission of the author Matthew Williams, Esquire. Matthew is an intellectual property attorney practicing with the firm of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. All rights reserved.
Apple’s release of the iPhone in June 2007 was an unqualified business success - 1.4 million iPhones were sold in just a few months. However, as has become [...]
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You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world . . .
You say you’ve got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We are doing what we can
But if you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can [...]
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U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut Justice Janet Bond Arterton, handed down a very pointed and decisive opinion hammering the R.I.A.A. for its boilerplate style of pleading in the nationwide wide campaign against illegal file sharing. Justice Arterton was appointed by President Clinton in 1995. The full decision is here: Decision. At several [...]
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Posted in Copyright, Digital Downloads, Entertainment Law, Internet Law, Music Industry, Music Law, tagged Copyright royalty board, mechanical royalty, music publishing, NMPA, RIAA, statutory rate on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Monday, January 28th, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) began what will be four weeks of hearings. The CRB will hear testimony from interested parties on both sides of issues which will ultimately determine the statutory mechanical rates for songwriters and music publishers. The CRB sets these rates periodically, but these particular hearings are more [...]
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For almost a decade now, the major labels (at the beginning there were five of them, now only four, EMI, Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal and Warner) have declared that illegal downloading is ravaging their business by destroying the sales of physical product. One may question this declaration, however, in few of the fact that ever [...]
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a high-profile hearing today on the subject of imposing additional performance royalties on so-called “over-the-air” or “terrestrial” radio stations (I’ll just call them OTA’s in this article). Investigative hearings such as these are usually precursors to legislation being introduced on the subject. Grammy winner, Lyle Lovett and Chicago-based singer-songwriter [...]
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Abraham Maslow’s famous “hierarchy of needs” places self-actualization as the pinnacle of human behavior. To illustrate what the phrase “self-actualization” meant , Maslow said:
“a musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.”
Of course, the thing that is important to note about [...]
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