The Importance of Registering Your Trademark: A Guide for Business Owners
As a business owner, protecting your brand is one of the most important things you can do. One way to protect your brand is by registering your trademark.
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Trademark Monitoring: How to Avoid Losing Your Exclusive Rights
Trademark monitoring is the process of regularly checking for potential infringement or consumer confusion of your trademark by others.
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Why do I have to file for a copyright? Isn’t it already protected?
You are correct that you do have copyright protection for your creative work as soon as you create it. This is known as “automatic copyright protection” and it applies to a wide range of creative works, including music. Under automatic copyright protection, you have the exclusive right to control th
How Do Record Labels Make Money?
Record labels are companies that sign recording artists and release their master sound recordings to the public. They are responsible for the production, distribution, and promotion of an artist’s master, and they receive a percentage of the profits in return. There are several ways that record labe
How 2 Live Crew Changed Copyright Law Forever
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, 2 Live Crew, a hip-hop group from Miami, Florida, faced several high-profile lawsuits over the alleged copyright infringement of their music. These lawsuits, particularly the group’s landmark victory in their case over the use of a sample from the song “Oh, Pretty
How Familiarity Can Help You As An Artist
Once again, taking a look at regular listening habits can help us to understand what exactly it means to be familiar. As humans, we find a sense of comfort in familiarity, or being accustomed to something. This seamlessly transfers over to music, where one might pause in the middle of their daily
Do I Need a Trademark?
Trademarks protect the source of the idea. In your day to day life, whether you are drinking a Coke or going to Disney, you are surrounded by trademarks. As an artist, you see it more commonly in regards to names. For example, there is only one Drake, only one Eminem, and only one Lil Wayne. […]
Why Does Price Matter?
The top music distributors have great business models. The thing about business models is this: when they are great, that means when successful, they are making money off of you, the consumer. How much and for how long they make money off of the consumer is a whole different story. With Songflowr
“Blurred Lines” Copyright Suit
When Robin Thicke lost the copyright suit that was brought against him by Marvin Gaye’s estate the music industry trembled with fear of repercussions. Many articles have been written about the case, but none make sense of what the court actually said, other than there was infringement. The case was
How Record Labels Profit
First things first. Record companies are businesses. They are constructed to be motivated by making as much money as possible for themselves and their shareholders. They are not charities that give away services to artists just because they want to lend a helping-hand. Let’s establish this point rig