The One Big Beautiful Bill has one clear benefit to US-based independent recording artists for calendar year 2025. As of January 1, 2025, the first $150,000 of recording costs incurred by a recording artist in creating sound recordings and released this year can be deducted...
Establishes Group Registration for Works on an Album of Music (“GRAM”) By Marc Jacobson, Esq. Under a new rule, the US Copyright Office will allow an applicant to register between two and twenty musical works or sound recordings, found in an album, with one application. To do...
By Marc Jacobson, Esq. and Jerome M. Hesch, Esq. In the past, recording artists frequently entered into agreements with record labels through a loan out corporation which two recent cases confirm had the effect of eliminating their ability to exercise the statutory termination right, as codified...
By David Jacob Darlene Love v Google Are Publicity Rights Needed in Addition to Master & Sync Licenses? A recent lawsuit filed on behalf of Darlene Love against Google and its ad agency, 72 & Sunny, may have far-reaching implications on long-standing music licensing practices. When ad agencies...
By Marc Jacobson and Marc Pellegrino A Reply to: Does Registering Multiple Works in a Single Application Limit Remedies for Copyright Infringement? (EASL Journal (Fall/Winter 2012) (Vol. 23, No. 3)) Introduction The article entitled “Does Registering Multiple Works in a Single Application Limit Remedies for Copyright Infringement,” appearing in the Fall/Winter...
By Marc Jacobson, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, New York Office July 2002 The U.S. Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, waved his proverbial wand and settled the hotly-debated issue of what the rates and terms for webcasting and ephemeral recordings should be in the United States. On May...