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Dastardly Downloads: Is Napster to blame for the music industry’s slump?

In August, the RIAA issued a study by Peter D. Hart Research Associates which reported that among people whose downloading activities increased during the past six months, 41% say that they purchased less music during that same period, compared to 19% who stated that they purchased more music as a result of the downloading. An […]

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Sonny LeMaire

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Kevin Maxx (DC Talk)

Entertainment Industry News, Music Law, Trademark Issues

What’s in a Name? Personal Names as Trade Names

By James H. Harris III* More than just occasionally, entertainers adopt stage names. They do so because they believe the new name will add a luster and specific identity to their careers. Thus, Harold S. Jenkins became Conway Twitty. A stage name, of course, is a type of mark that an entertainer uses to identify […]

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Marcus Hummon

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Brittany Wells

Taming the “Big Bad Record Company”

What songwriters can do to improve their negotiating strength in an entertainment deal A very common theme among my songwriter and artist clients is the subject of how they were “ripped off” by their record label and/or music publisher (for purposes of this general publication, I’ll refrain from using the actual, more vivid terms often […]

Slow Ball: The RIAA beat Napster, but can it beat Gnutella & FreeNet?

This article first appeared in the print edition of Law on the Row, Volume 2, Issue 1, on March 21, 2001 Hillary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (“”RIAA”), called RIAA’s legal victory over Napster, the mega-MP3 file trading site, a “clear victory for all creators.” While the efforts of the record industry […]

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Jennifer O’Neil

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