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Happy Thanksgiving
I want to wish all of the readers of Law on the Row a very happy and safe Thanksgiving. As a result of the holidays, this has been a slow posting week for me. Rest [...]
Return fire by the music industry – artists to testify before Senate
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 [...]
Nashville’s Blue Bird Cafe is a songwriting legacy
Amy Kurland's Blue Bird Cafe on Hillsboro Road in Nashville is the kind of stuff of which fairy tales are made. Now, Kurland has left the legacy in the hands of Nashville's best songwriting organization, [...]
Copyright: it’s the end of the world as we know it.
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 [...]
The long tail wags the dog! An independent artist succeeds using the Internet
I have often advised my clients in the past that the new direction for independent artists is what I refer to as "guerilla" marketing, meaning finding alternative means of marketing your product. One of the [...]
New concurrent resolution, H.Con.Res. 244 introduced to combat performance fees for record labels
For years now, a huge battle has been brewing between proponents of performance royalties for the owners of sound recording copyrights to be paid by terrestrial radio stations (those broadcasting through the air) and it [...]
Last Man Standing – collaborating with other songwriters
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 [...]
Sonny Lemaire’s “Fall” climbing the charts to Top Ten
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvpkd9eJhlc&NR=1] 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 [...]
Courts taking a stricter look at evidence in RIAA downloading cases
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 [...]
Porter Wagoner Dies at age 80
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 [...]
Sony BMG announces McBee promotion
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, [...]
Amazon profits in the stratosphere
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 [...]
Leon Russell: upcoming concert appearances in Tennessee
Leon Russell hits the tour circuit harder than any person I know. He will making several Tennessee appearances close to home in Knoxville, Memphis and then Nashville in the upcoming months, so locals will be [...]
NCO’s Acoustic Cafe Series Continues
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIoxm-zvTw&rel=1] 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 [...]
New Talent Agency on the Row
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 Music Row Show is “moving on up”
By Jeff Scheese* (with Barry Neil Shrum, Esq.) Great news [...]
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