This month’s article is written by Corey Field. Corey is the current President of the New York-based Copyright Society of the USA. He practices copyright and entertainment law in the Los Angeles office of Ballard Spahr LLP, where he represents clients nationwide in both litigation and transactional matters. He can be reached at fieldc@ballardspahr.com. Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author.

"Think Big" – The Next Great Copyright Act

04/08/2013

By Corey Field, Esq. So it has begun.  The United States Register of Copyrights, Maria A. Pallante, recently testified before Congress on the …

Music of the Beltway, or why Washington matters

07/06/2011

For music publishers, it is an inescapable fact of life that copyright law, the “Copyright Act” as written by Congress, has a direct effec…

Pan European Online Licensing

04/27/2011

This overview is not intended to be comprehensive or a substitute for fee-based information and/or legal advice. Pan European Online Licensing refe…

Termination Rights - Explained

02/13/2011

This article is written from two perspectives – The songwriter or their heirs who want to reclaim the copyright and the publisher who wants to c…

Music and Metrics

10/01/2010

 “If music did not pay, it would be given up." So wrote Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a landmark Supreme Court decision in 19…