Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California
What laws are broken if a music publisher does not have a contract with the artist, but still releases and sales music?
4 Answers from Attorneys
State and Federal Copyright laws.
The publisher needs to have a contract with whoever holds the copyright to the music. That may or may not be the artist. If the copyright belongs to a third party, then the third party gets to decide who publishes the music. The artist probably has no say in the matter, unless she and the third party have a contract which gives her one.
Copyright laws and other intellectual property rights. How much in sales?
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