by Noric Dilanchian | 13/05/2024 | IP Development, Entertainment Law, Music Law
Useful lawyers are not just lawyers. That started to be recognised openly decades ago with the expression that lawyers need to be “commercially-minded”. Yet that’s inadequate, it underplays what’s required. Commerciality is not just about... by Noric Dilanchian | 01/11/2023 | Music Law, Digital Assets Commercialisation, IP Commercialisation, Film & TV Law, Entertainment Law, Contract Drafting & Review, Print Publishing Law, Content, Entertainment & Publishing, IP Portfolio Management, Digital Assets & Ebusiness
Finished reading a late 2022 book I highly recommend on the state of entertainment and informational intellectual property, CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM. Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow are authors specialising in the analysis of how law and institutions have permitted Big... by Noric Dilanchian | 10/02/2016 | IP Commercialisation, Music Law, Revenue aka Where's the Money?
The Rolling Stones earned more money from licensing their song “Start Me Up” for use in the Microsoft Windows 95 product launch campaign than they had earned from all their record releases before that date. Putting that another way, the Stones earned more... by Noric Dilanchian | 20/03/2014 | Music Law, Revenue aka Where's the Money?, Trends & Market Research
In about 1987 I attended a music lawyer’s seminar at the Arts Law Center in Sydney. I have never forgotten how astonished I was as the experienced music lawyer (Nina Stevenson) described Byzantine contractual complexity such as royalty-related... by Noric Dilanchian | 12/02/2014 | Entertainment Law, Music Law, Business Modelling, Revenue aka Where's the Money?
The music production business and the music consumption habits of the 20th century were shaped by the technologies and distribution channels of the time. From the late 1990s the digitisation of music recordings radically shifted the financial basis requiring people in... by Noric Dilanchian | 13/02/2007 | Entrepreneurship Know-how, Content, Entertainment & Publishing, Music Law, Revenue aka Where's the Money?
James Brown (1933-2006) was an expert in artistic fusion. He was also an innovative deal maker exploiting his opportunities and intellectual property (IP) portfolio comprising a catalogue of songs and recordings. This post applies to Brown’s career the...
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