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entertainment lawyer Recently, on December 12, 2023, the Copyright Royalty Judges announced a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase in the mechanical royalty rates for the 17 U.S.C. §115 s...

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entertainment lawyer 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. pe...

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entertainment lawyer 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 my f...

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entertainment lawyer “very man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his….�...

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entertainment lawyer Since taking over Mary Beth Peters as Register of Copyrights in 2011, Maria Pallante has been listening and responding to the concerns of a number of her constituents, part...

https://barryshrum.com/recent-legislative-efforts-bode-well-for-songwriters/

entertainment lawyer Is it time for Congress to draft a replacement for the 1976 Copyright Law? In point of fact, the law was drafted almost half a decade ago now and its last major amendment c...

https://barryshrum.com/considering-new-u-s-copyright-act/

entertainment lawyer In 2009 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) estimated 95% of all digitally downloaded music was obtained illegally. This leaves only 5% of potential revenu...

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entertainment lawyer We recently wrapped up the exclusive songwriting agreement between my client, Logan Brill and Carnival Music.  Logan and her family are from the Knoxville area.  She move...

https://barryshrum.com/logan-brill-signs-publishing-deal-with-carnival-music/

entertainment lawyer The recent decision presented by the honorable Judge Chin on the matter of copyright infringement in the case The Authors Guild v. Google Inc. raised numerous issues in the...

https://barryshrum.com/solutions-for-the-orphaned-works-of-copyright-google-books-decision-highlights-need-for-action/

entertainment lawyer NBC Universal recently hired a company called Envisional to study counterfeiting activity over the Internet. The results of this study – despite the fact that it is indus...

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