Songwriter’s Corner2017-07-20T11:04:35-05:00

Songwriter’s Corner

Songwriter’s Corner is a collection of articles from the archives of both the original newsletter version of Law on the Row and from its online sibling. These articles will be of particular interest to songwriters.

Music Publishing 101, Part 4: Show me the money!

By |November 29th, 2007|Categories: Digital Downloads, Entertainment Law, Life on the Row, Music Law, Music Publishing, Songwriting|

Section 106 of the Copyright Act gives the owner of a copyright a bundle of rights which includes the rights to 1) reproduce the work, 2) prepare derivative works, 3) distribute copies of the works, [...]

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Music Publishing 101, Part 3: Pieces of the Publishing Pie

By |November 28th, 2007|Categories: Client Activity, Entertainment Industry News, Life on the Row, Music Law, Music Publishing, Songwriting|Tags: |

Once a music publisher begins to receive income from the exploitation of the copyrights it has acquired, it must begin to distribute the income to the appropriate writers.  Understanding the basic principles of copyright ownership [...]

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Music Publishing 101, Part 2: Forming a publishing company

By |November 27th, 2007|Categories: Entertainment Industry News, Life on the Row, Music Law, Music Publishing, Songwriting|

From a legal perspective, the formation of a music publishing company is, in most respects, very similar the formation of any other type of company, except that the documentation is tailored specifically for the business [...]

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Music Publishing 101, Part 1: A brief history

By |November 26th, 2007|Categories: Entertainment Industry News, Life on the Row, Music Law, Music Publishing, Music Row News, Songwriting|

This blog series will explore music publishing, giving a little bit of history and outlining the basic steps necessary to form a music  publishing company.  Part 1 looks at a brief history and background of [...]

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Last Man Standing – collaborating with other songwriters

By |November 2nd, 2007|Categories: Copyright Issues, Entertainment Industry News, Music Industry, Music Law, RIAA, Songwriting|

See Jane. See Jane write lyrics. See Dick. See Dick write melodies. See Dick meet Jane. See Dick and Jane combine their efforts and collaborate together to write a song. This is one frequent story [...]

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Holy Copyright, Batman! The Legal Doctrine of Scenes a Faire

By |October 11th, 2007|Categories: Copyright Issues, Entertainment Industry News, Music Law, Music Row News, Songwriting|

This article originally appear in the print edition of Law on the Row, Volume 2, Issue 1 on September 9, 2002.  Imagine two musical works written in a minor key using a standard jazz progression [...]

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Taming the “Big Bad Record Company”

By |March 21st, 2001|Categories: Copyright Issues, Entertainment Law, Music Publishing, Songwriting|Tags: , , , |

What songwriters can do to improve their negotiating strength in an entertainment deal A very common theme among my songwriter and artist clients is the subject of how they were "ripped off" by their record [...]

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