Copyrights & Contracts for Musicians and Labels: Know Your Rights!

February 5, 2010

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Copyrights & Contracts for Musicians and Labels: Know Your Rights!
 
A Music Law workshop, featuring Attorney Peter Vaughan Shaver, Esq.
 
AFM Local 99, 325 NE 20th Avenue, Portland.
Sunday March 21, 2010   1:00 – 3:00 PM
$20.00 pre-registration; $30.00 at the door.
$10.00 (pre-registration only) for WCSA, PSA, CBA, or JSO members
FREE to AFM union members (w/ proof of membership).
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As part of its ongoing Professional Workshop Series, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM Union Local 99) and Sound Advice, LLC present a music law workshop with Portland entertainment attorney, Peter Vaughan Shaver, on Copyrights and Contracts for Musicians and Labels.
 
This event will be held at AFM Local 99, 325 NE 20th Avenue, Portland, on Sunday, March 21, 2010 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM.; $20.00 for pre-registration through Sound Advice; $30.00 at the door for the general public. The event is free for AFM union members. $10.00 pre-registration admission is available for members of the Portland Songwriters Assn., The West Coast Songwriters Assn., The Cascade Blues Association, or the Jazz Society of Oregon.
 
This two-hour, interactive workshop will provide practical information on crucial legal topics related to the music business, with a focus on copyrights and contracts. Anyone involved with the music business should attend: bands, singer-songwriters, managers, producers, engineers, promoters, and record label owners.
 
Copyright topics will include the basic concepts that every musician should know, sound recording versus song compositions copyrights, registering music with the Copyright Office, and the ins and outs of performing rights organizations such as ASCAP and BMI. Copyright forms and other valuable handouts will be provided.
 
The discussion of music business contracts will focus on recording and publishing agreement basics, licensing for films, television and video games, management and distribution deals, band and side musician agreements, production deals, band trademarks and more.
 
For pre-registration information, contact Peter Vaughan Shaver at (503) 473-8252 or <pv@pdxsa.com>. Check out the Sound Advice website at PDXMUSICLAW.COM / PDXSA.COM. Pre-registration payments can be made by check or via PayPal to pvshaver@hotmail.com.

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Regards,

Peter Vaughan Shaver, Esq.
 
SOUND ADVICE, LLC
3939 NE Hancock Street, Suite 308
Portland, OR 97212
Phone: (503) 473-8252
Fax: (503) 288-5219