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Avoiding Litigation With Your Growing Business
A common fear among entrepreneurs is that they will be hit with litigation right when their business is starting to flourish. Litigation can be costly and time-consuming, and it would take your attention away [...]
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2019 INDUCTEES NOMINATED
Nashville, TN August 7, 2019 – The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame announced today that Larry Gatlin, Dwight Yoakam, Marcus Hummon, Kostas, Rivers Rutherford and Sharon Vaughn will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters [...]
Choose Your Own Litigation
Many of you may remember reading a “Choose your own Adventure” book in your childhood, and being fascinated by the different trajectory a story could take as you made different selections in the story [...]
Marvel Comics and the Power of Licensing
by Madeline Rains, edited by BNSesq The backbone of Marvel Comics has always been the wealth of intellectual property possessed by the company. Its success was based around complete ownership of its characters, until [...]
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES 2018 INDUCTEES
Yesterday I had the honor of attending the announcement of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame's 2018 inductees, Ronnie Dunn, K.T. Oslin, Byron Hill, Wayne Kirkpatrick and Joe Melson. I am so honored to serve [...]
Arman Asadsangabi and Oddnote make Waves around Nashville
For several years now, Sony/ATV has partnered with Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University, where I adjunct, to sponsor a songwriting contest called the Sony/ATV All-Access Program. Students submit [...]
Barry Neil Shrum named general counsel for Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame
Shrum & Associates’ very own namesake, Barry Neil Shrum, Esquire, was recently appointed to serve as general counsel for the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame, and to serve as a non-voting member of its [...]
Intellectual Property Law: Is it relevant in today’s high speed digital age?
Editors Note: Today we begin an intriguing series of articles regarding the relevance of intellectual property concepts in an age in which the likes of John Perry Barlow, founder of the EFF, have declared [...]
Entertainment Attorney Shrum interviewed for “Inside Music City” podcast
Our founding partner, Barry Neil Shrum, was recently interviewed for Episode #12 of Inside Music City podcast, which is available on iTunes, Stitcher and Tunein. The one-hour episode delves into Mr. Shrum's reasons for [...]
Backed into a corner, Spotify hints at major copyright battle
By Lucas Evans* Back in mid-July, when streaming giant Spotify was slammed with two new major lawsuits totaling a whopping $366 million, we all tho ught they would try and settle. But the [...]
The Plight of the Starving Artist – the CLASSICS Act may provide some relief.
UPDATE - Since this article was written in 2017, the CLASSICS Act was incorporated in the Music Modernization Act, passed in December 2019. The plight of the “starving artist” is timeless and history is replete with [...]
A moment in Nitta Yuma in homage to Bo Carter
About 130 miles or so south of Memphis, Tennessee on Route 61 is what we used to call a “wide spot in the road” named Nitta Yuma, Mississippi. There is a small building with [...]
Secret Blend of 11 Herbs: Three Things to Know about the 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Acts
By Drew Harris How delicious are those 11 “secret herbs and spices” assembled by Harland Sanders in 1930 for his popular “Kentucky Fried Chicken” sold at his local service station? It was so “finger lickin’ [...]
Lessons Learned: Ghostwriter Tony Schwartz disparages Trump and his book “The Art of the Deal”
By Erin Thiele and Barry Neil Shrum, Esq. In the mid-1980s, Donald Trump approached Tony Schwartz to ghost write his autobiography. At this point in time, Trump was in his early 30s and did [...]
Sorting out the DOJ Ruling and its impact on performance rights GallerySorting out the DOJ Ruling and its impact on performance rights
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Sorting out the DOJ Ruling and its impact on performance rights
The first of the month (August 2016), the Department of Justice issued a summary of findings with regard to two court orders that govern the operation of two of the U.S. performing rights organizations (the [...]
More Revenue for Songwriters? Copyright Royalty Tribunal increases the Mechanical Royalty Rates GalleryMore Revenue for Songwriters? Copyright Royalty Tribunal increases the Mechanical Royalty Rates
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More Revenue for Songwriters? Copyright Royalty Tribunal increases the Mechanical Royalty Rates
Recently, on December 12, 2023, the Copyright Royalty Judges [...]