Today we welcome a very special guest, Courtney Fabio of Ringleader Artist Management (yep, that’s Mike’s beautiful wife!). We discuss the lack of heroes in the music business, the depravity of comments on the internet, and the Songwriter Equity Act of 2014.
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Show Notes:
- Ringleader Artist Management
- Anderson East
- Anderson East’s new album on PledgeMusic
- Digital Music News article on Songwriter Equity Act of 2014 that spawned our conversation today about heroes and villains
- New Legislation Seeks to Modernize Copyright Act to Benefit Songwriters | Billboard (a much better article about the Songwriter Equity Act)
- Brian references our episode with John Cantu and Paul Steele about how music is a business that is really a hobby
- Copyright Act of 1909 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Copyright Act of 1976 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Musicians Sing for a Cause That’s Their Own – NYTimes.com
- OpenAura Launches, Musicians: Claim & Monetize Your Digital Presence – hypebot
- OpenAura
- Brian manages the band Unspoken, a Christian band that happens to have the same name as a death metal band from Norway. Here is their messed up Last.fm profile.
Thanks for listening!