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Music, Money, And The Middleman: The Relationship Between The Songwriter And The Publisher, Cornelius Cowles
Music, Money, And The Middleman: The Relationship Between The Songwriter And The Publisher, Cornelius Cowles
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Money, along with creative drive and the chance to work in an exciting industry, push the publisher and songwriter both. This article seeks to help the songwriter under-stand the role of the music publisher, an indispensable and unavoidable part of the country music industry. It examines the songwriter-publisher relationship from the perspective of those people active in the industry and examines criticism of the publisher's role. It further analyzes the typically thorny legal and contractual issues faced by the songwriter in negotiating an exclusive songwriting agreement with the publisher. Finally, recognizing the special role of songwriters in Nashville, it addresses …
What Hath Ovitz Wrouqht: Agents V. Managers Revisited, Donald E. Biederman
What Hath Ovitz Wrouqht: Agents V. Managers Revisited, Donald E. Biederman
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
For more than 60 years, a feud has raged between artists' managers and talent agents. In part, this has to do with philosophical differences concerning the role which each plays in the development and furtherance of their clients' careers, and in part it concerns the levels of compensation each can receive. As a general rule of thumb, the job of an agent is to find work for his/her clients, whereas the job of a manager is to guide and develop the client's career. Of equal importance is the manner in which they are regarded by prevailing law. Agents have been …
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 …