July 2016
The Cat’s in the Cradle: The adventures of child sensation Maddie Ziegler
By Erin Thiele and Barry Neil Shrum, Esq. From the reality television show, Dance Moms to best-selling Sia album covers (including Chandelier, Elastic Heart, Big Girls Cry and Cheap Thrills), Capezio commercials, to featured judging [...]
Purple Reign: Lessons Learned from Prince
By Morgan Wisted & Barry Neil Shrum Just over half way through, and already it has been a tough year of losses in the music industry. Glenn Frey, one of the members of [...]
Monkey See, Monkey Do?
by Erin Thiele and Morgan Wisted NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. Casey Dienel is suing Justin Bieber and his producer, Sonny Moore, p/k/a Skrillex, (among other defendants) for copyright infringement involving her song, [...]
Direct Sound has success at NAMM in the Music City Center
A special thanks to my client and friends at Direct Sound Headphones, who made the short trek from their headquarters outside of St. Louis, MO to Nashville to be a part of the show. Nashville [...]
March 2016
Apple’s Straw Man Marketing Arguments have Deadly Consequences
Apple has spun a very integrate and systematic marketing web in its ill-advised stand against the FBI in the San Bernardino terrorism case. The San Bernardino case is the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil [...]
December 2015
Music City Scores Top Ten Hit!!
I can hear the late Casey Kasem’s lead in on Top 40 right now: “At number 9 this week is a city that is more well known for producing top ten hits from country artists [...]