Music Law

You are a recording artist and starting to achieve success in the music industry. You’re starting to sell out your shows; you’ve experienced the amazing feeling of hearing your song on the radio [...]

What Are Performing Rights Organizations & Which One Is Right For You? Performing Rights Organizations or “PROs” help songwriters and music publishers get paid for the usage of their music by [...]

Congratulations! You’ve recently recorded a great song and your best friend calls to tell you that she’s heard the song on Spotify. She boasts about your song becoming a hit and how you’re going [...]

You’re an independent artist and you love Madonna! You love her so much that you’ve decided to record (or “cover”) an album of her biggest hits. Your versions of her songs sound great and your [...]

So you, your producer and a singer/songwriter you just met at a recent networking event are in the studio collaborating and creating a new song. After hours in the booth and listening to the [...]

Give Me My Copyrights Back! 2013 is a big year in Copyright Law! It will mark the first year that artists and songwriters can recapture their music copyrights using the “Copyright Termination [...]

Welcome, my name is Bob Celestin.  This is another episode of my video series Legal Advice for DIY—Generation Hustle.  Last episode we’ve been talking about putting together your Entertainment [...]

So you’re listening to your favorite radio station and hear a song that kinda sounds like it samples a mixtape track that you recorded and released last summer. You call up your manager and she [...]

Welcome, once again.  My name is Bob Celestin. Welcome to my video series Legal Advice for Generation DIY—Generation Hustle. We’re talking about Entertainment Career Dream Team Members. You have [...]

Welcome, my name is Bob Celestin.  Welcome to another one of my videos series on legal advice for Generation DIY. In the last episode we talked about the four key members that you need as part of [...]