Lecturer @UNewHaven / Voting member @RecordingAcad / Writer / Musician / Cook / Fisherman / Husband / Dad / Opinions are mine only.
May 8, 2022 • 32 tweets • 5 min read
I want to discuss quickly why it’s important to understand the difference between a song and a sound recording and how that affects ownership and splits.
By song, I mean the composition: the music and lyrics.
Jan 9, 2021 • 26 tweets • 3 min read
This mob literally went to DC as if called up to fight a just war against “liberal” aggressors.
They were radicalized by the lies they were fed, the grievances they held, and the hate they were taught to have.
Jan 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I think that sampling is an art, and wish there was a better way to work these situations out, but sample licensing is still subject to copyright law.
Labels keep lists of who NOT to sample. It’s their right to deny the use, so don’t mess with it. If you do, they’re going to come at you.
Jan 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is 100% true. Adults should know right and wrong. Every terrorist rioter in that crowd should’ve known better, and their actions must have consequences, 1/
but in fairness, they were egged on by people in power, people they trusted to tell them the truth, people who deliberately lied to them in order to attain power and keep it.
Jan 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
All of this could’ve been prevented with the truth.
I know it’s hard, and we all want to avoid it, but we can’t let such impulses stand in the way, otherwise it means standing in the way of freedom, of rights, of peace, of safety, of health, of rights, of our continued existence on this planet and the existence of our children.
Jan 6, 2021 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
This is an attempted coup.
Those who stormed the Capitol are not “protestors”; they are terrorists.
May 7, 2020 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
My #musicbusiness class today is about artist management. I wrote about finding a manager for @djbooth: bit.ly/2SdEtGB
It's also important to understand a manager's role, and in my class I talk about seven things that managers do:
Dec 16, 2019 • 50 tweets • 7 min read
This proposal sets a very dangerous precedent that would undermine songwriters’ ability to collect future royalties from their work.
