First of all, a gloat with my learned friends. If they ever sneer at you, asking “What do lawyers really do? Why do you want to collect all that money? Isn’t it just to write ‘heretobefore’?”, wave this judgement in their faces. Good lawyers help clients avoid losing money by…
Author: Rotimi Fawole
Last week, Adele’s manager, Jonathan Dickins, was reported as saying during an interview that streaming is the future whether musicians liked it or not. His comments followed news that Taylor Swift had pulled her entire catalogue from Spotify, the world’s most popular streaming service. Taylor Swift is not the first…
News reached us in Nigeria a few days ago that someone (a man named Nicholas Opara) had applied for and received approval from the USPTO to register the word “Nollywood” as a trademark in the United States. At first it didn’t seem to me like something anyone should worry about…
Startup and tech buffs love disruption, and for good reason too. Technology has intervened, over the course of human development, to change existing business models and sometimes make them obsolete. Usually, after some initial resistance, the market follows the disruption and old businesses either [try to] adapt, like Blockbuster or close…
In a recent piece for Premium Times, Michael Abimboye highlighted a new trend in the entertainment industry which, if true, presents an interesting legal situation. According to the piece, in the wake of the mass recruitment of musicians as brand ambassadors by telcos, many have been effectively precluded from working with ambassadors…
When you buy or are given tickets to attend a concert, is your expectation merely to see musicians in the flesh or to hear them sing and watch them put on a show? Chances are that most people are hopeful for a real performance when they head out to shows…
Netflix’s evolution: Go from physical product to digital, once digital change the entire product. This will happen in most markets. — Aaron Levie (@levie) January 21, 2014 “Convert to Digital and then change the entire product.” That’s how my mind summarised it, anyway. That tweet from Aaron Levie is probably…
It has now been widely reported that IBAN* and BON** (associations of independent television and radio broadcasters) have chosen, in response to lawsuits by COSON, seeking the payment of royalties for its members, to stop playing the music of COSON-registered artists. Here are a few bits and bobs on collecting…
One of the courses I treated with the greatest disdain in University was GES 101. I can’t remember the official title of the course now but I do remember that one of the topics was language and how culture and technology affect language. This has been proved true and become…