Imagine Law

07/23/2012

BMI offers songwriters an 8-week workshop in NYC taught by composer Billy Seidman (Sept. - Oct. 2012).

BMI collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

07/22/2012

Russian state and church imprison female punk band P***y Riot, who mocked them. Putin steps-up crackdown on musical freedom of expression in Russia.

The prosecution of three women who performed a crude anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral signals the end of the Kremlin’s chilly tolerance of the protest movement.

07/22/2012

Significant difference between artist royalties earned from music downloaded vs. music streamed over the Internet.

High court says downloading of an individual file is not a ‘public’ transmission, but that the one-time streaming of music is

04/15/2011

The California Program for Entrepreneurship (CAPE) invites California-based companies to apply for its Entrepreneurship Training Program by May 1, 2011. The companies selected will benefit from the experience of veteran entrepreneurs, funders and faculty of Santa Clara University.

03/28/2011

Many artists whose contracts predate digital music stand to profit significantly from a recent court decision.

03/22/2011

Musical recording artists could be due much higher royalties for digital downloads thanks to US Supreme Court today.

In a triumph for the Detroit star and his former production company, the court on Monday declined to hear an appeal filed by Universal Music Group in a dispute over payments for downloaded tracks and ringtones.

03/20/2011

New York City Ballet is set to become one of the country's first major performing-arts companies to govern its employees' posts on Twitter, Facebook and other social-media outlets. Devin Alberda, a member of the company's corps de ballet, is part of the reason why.

02/24/2011

The film icon has had a life-long love affair with jazz music, calling it one of the only truly American art forms. It's something that could only come out of such a diverse country, he says, in Cultural Conversation with Michael Judge.

02/17/2011

Michigan needs the blossoming film industry that has been taking root in the state. Eliminating those incentives could harm the fragile economy.

Like the Clint Eastwood character in the Detroit-area-set movie "Gran Torino," the new governor of Michigan is telling Hollywood to get off his lawn. Rick Snyder, a Republican who was elected governor of the Great Lakes State on a platform...

02/13/2011

The future of Internet radio is beginning to thrive.

The Internet radio service is handing over half of every dollar it brings in to the music industry. But things could be a lot worse. And the royalty system that taxes Pandora also allows it to thrive.

01/26/2011

Once upon a time, films would open, close, appear on video, be shown on television, then vanish. Now with dozens of television channels to fill and rentals going postal, some never go away. Ed Cu***ng looks at the new afterlife of a movie ...