Legal Question in Intellectual Property in North Carolina

Audio CD Publishing Rights & Content Ownership.

If an artist's recording is initially released (recorded, packaged and distributed) by an independent record label(under a simple contrated agreement), can that recording legally be resold by another party (another record label) without the first label's consent? If contracted agreements between the artist and first record label stipulate that content is exclusive to the first label. Does an un-authorized re-mix and re-mastering change anything?


Asked on 4/05/09, 1:34 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Lawrence Graves Coolidge & Graves PLLC

Re: Audio CD Publishing Rights & Content Ownership.

This question deals with the language of an actual contract; the best advice is to take that contract to an attorney for an evaluation of its content, which will be the only basis for a correct answer to your inquiry.

Best wishes,

LDWG

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Answered on 4/06/09, 12:30 pm


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