Resources

 Legal Resources

1. U.S. Copyright Act (United States Code, Title 17)

2. Berne Treaty

3. Lanham Act

4. U.S. Copyright Office

5. Forms for Registration of Copyright

6. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

7. Forms for Trademark Application

8. Entertainment & Sports Law Journal (Published by the Forum on Entertainment & Sports Law Industries of the American Bar Association)

9. Recent Copyright Legislation News

10. International Trademark Association

11. Music Publishers’ Association’s Resource Links

12. Copyright Clearance Center

13. U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 50 (Instructions regarding registration of musical compositions)

14. U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 56 (Instructions regarding registration of sound recordings)

15. U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 56a (Discusses distinction between musical composition and sound recording copyrights)

16. Copyright & Fair Use

17. Copyright Myths Explained

18. Copyright Website

19. The Copyright Society of the USA
    

20. R. Mark Halligan’s Trade Secrets Home Page

 

 

Nashville Record Labels

• Capitol Nashville

• Sony Music Nashville

• Warner Brothers Nashville

• Lyric Street Records

• Reprise Nashville

• Curb Records

• Universal Music Group Nashville
  

  

 Chart & Publications

• Billboard

• Billboard Top Country Albums

• R&R

• R&R Top 30 Country Chart

• Gavin

• Gavin Country Chart

• Music Row Magazine

• American Songwriter

• The Nashville Scene

• Nashville Business Journal

• The Tennessean

 

Mechanical Rights Organizations

• Harry Fox Agency

• Mechanical Copyright Protection Society, Ltd.

  

Performance Rights Organizations

• BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)

• ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers)

• SESAC, Inc.
  (Privately Owned)

• The Harry Fox Agency
  (Mechanical Collection)

• Peforming Right Society
  (England)

• MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society)
  (England)

• GEMA (The German Authors’ Rights Society)
  (Performance and Mechanical Collection)

• Belgium Society of Authors, Composers & Publishers
  (Performance and Mechanical Collection)

• APRA
  (New Zealand & Australia Mechanical Collection)

• The Nordic Copyright Bureau
  (Norway Performance Rights)

• TONO
  (Norway Mechanical Collection)

• BUMA/STERMA
  

             (Dutch & Netherlands Copyright Society)

 

  

Other Music Industry Organizations

• Country Music Association

• GAC
  

• Nashville Songwriters Association, International

• Nashville Entertainment Association (NEA)

• World Intellectual Property Organization

• National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences (NARAS)

• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

• National Music Publishers Association (NMPA)

• Songwriters Guild of America (SGA)

• National Academy of Songwriters (NAS)

• National Endowment for the Arts
  

• American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
  of the United States & Canada

• Nashville Musician’s Union
  (Local AFM)

• Electronic Music Foundation
  

Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property Law (FindLaw)

• Intellectual Property Magazine

• American Intellectual Property Law Association

• Intellectual Property Papers by Professor Thomas G. Field, Jr.