Posts Tagged ‘royalties’
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: A successful duo I represent has recorded a CD which is being released by a record company. Although the artist made attempts to obtain a contract, because of time restraints, according to the record company, it was only possible to give a contract AFTER the recording [...]
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Tags: agent, Agreements, artist, artist manager, Brian Taylor, commitments, contract, contractual terms, creative proposals, engagements, exclusivity, formal contract, Goldstein, music, negotiation, power of attorney, royalties, significant time, time restraints, transaction
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law & Disorder: When a composer/songwriter is commissioned to write a song, who owns the copyright to the song? The commissioner or the writer? And for either party, when the other owns the copyright, what kind of controls and/or royalties does the holder have? As with just about everything [...]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, commission fee, composer, copyright, copyright law, entertainment industry, Goldstein, music, ownership, recording, royalties, songwriter
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Can you answer this question for us? My soon to be son-in-law is a musician. He has written and recorded many songs, and is producing his first CD. One of the songs on the CD, he had a female friend sing with him. If he plans to put this song on [...]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, contract, copyright, copyright infringement, Goldstein, license, manager, music, musician, ownership, permission, recording, release, royalties
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