Music Copyright issues - Thursday night and what to do in the hours before St. Patrick's Day
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On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:00 PM, in the Multimedia Hall of Bunch Library at Belmont University in Nashville, I will deliver a presentation on copyright and recent music copyright infringement cases. I will be playing and discussing music by Dr. Dre, Mariah Carey, Tom Petty, D. J. Danger Mouse, Britney Spears, Beatallica, Metallica, the Beatles, the Beastie Boys, Jib Jab, George Clinton and others that have been part of recent music copyright matters will be discussed.
If you are near Nashville, please come visit. Sit a spell. (Is that Southern enough or is it Ozark? Even after all these years, I am still not quite Southern, am I?)
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The best parts of the evening will be:
There will be friends and other good people, celebrities and celebrity-friends in the audience.
The music is worth hearing.
The issues are worth knowing.
Some words that should not be said will likely be said (that could, theoretically, pertain to audience members and not just me).
I might take requests as my playlists are much longer and more substantial than any short playlists by corporations such as the EVIL EMPIRE (no, not the New York Yankees, but Clear Channel Entertainment).
The building is structurally sound and will likely not fall down.
The audience will not encounter commercial advertising or subliminal suggestions.
The hall is amphitheatre-like.
The chairs in the hall are orange (a very bad thing if the date is March 17 - if you are Boston shanty Irish, you know what I mean).
It will not interfere with any special greening ceremonies and anyone's celebration of St. Patrick's Day as it will conclude about 210 minutes before St. Patrick's Day begins.
Some of us will celebrate life even more so afterwards.
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