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The Recording Artist Agreement: Does It Empower Or Enslave, Lynn Morrow
The Recording Artist Agreement: Does It Empower Or Enslave, Lynn Morrow
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
In June 2000, Courtney Love, the controversial lead singer of the rock group Hole, lambasts, among other things, record company profits. In an essay entitled "Courtney Love Does the Math," she maintains that a recording artist agreement is itself a form of music piracy. She tells a compelling story about a band and a record company. As a result of a bidding war between the major labels, the band was given what is considered a huge deal-a twenty percent artist royalty and a million dollar advance. Providing a breakdown of how the million dollars was spent, Ms. Love calculates that, …
Phoenix Rising: Inside The Owner's Box With Counsel To Jerry Colangelo, J. S. Ruffner
Phoenix Rising: Inside The Owner's Box With Counsel To Jerry Colangelo, J. S. Ruffner
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
In late spring of 1987, I received a telephone call that changed my law practice. Jerry Colangelo, General Manager of the Suns since its arrival in Phoenix as an expansion NBA franchise in 1969, called me to discuss representing a group of investors he was putting together for the purchase of the franchise. At the time, the Suns franchise was the only major professional sports team in Arizona and had been very successful. Unfortunately, the reputation of the team, carefully nurtured from its arrival, recently had been tarnished by allegations and investigations concerning drugs. Jerry explained that the Tucson and …