Music Law Press: LINKS & UPDATES
- "...but where do I sign?" Volume One - CHAPTER FOUR (revised) - "Copyright Registration and Deposit"
- Concurrently with publication of "But Where Do I Sign?" the United States Copyright Office – with the almost-predictable perversity of governmental agencies everywhere – initiated a new, primary system for copyright registration.
Official implementation of the electronic Copyright Office system (eCO) and the new Form CO as the Copyright Office's two preferred methods for registration applications -- including online deposit of copyright materials -- necessitated a complete revision of Chapter Four ("Copyright Registration and Deposit ") after we had already gone to press.
While subsequent printings of VOLUME ONE - THE ESSENTIALS will contain the newly revised and expanded chapter, it is made available here as an online supplement for the benefit of those who purchased this Volume before the expanded chapter could be incorporated.
(click the link above to view the revised Chapter Four in Adobe PDF format.)
- - Musicians Institute Music Business Program - Hollywood, California
- Authors Robert J. Nathan and Burgundy Morgan are both adjunct professors of music law in the Music Business Program of the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. The program is unique in having instructors who are active professionals within the music industry, rather than merely teachers of academic theory.
+ - ARTICLE by Robert J. Nathan: "Trademark Issues Related to Musical Performance Groups"
In support of Truth in Music statutes which have now been enacted by 30 states, Robert Nathan has provided the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) with a comprehensive set of guidelines for evaluating the authenticity of applications for registration as service marks of the names of musical performance groups.