Jon Rich Celebrity Knockout!

Former “Nashville Star” contestant Jared Ashley sues Jon Rich for allegedly being a meanie to him.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990602088

Here’s a copy of the complaint–take out your reading glasses and get ready to sit for a spell because it’s 79 pages long!

Ashley Complaint

Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 8.05(1) states that “Each averment in a pleading shall be simple, concise, and direct.”   You tell me….

Worth the visit.

Take a moment and visit www.thesessionplayers.com.    It features video and interviews with Nashville session musicians.  I definitely give it two snaps and a circle!

Proud Papa

My daughter (Brianna Hugan) did her first pro session at Oceanway in Nashville on Sunday. She’ll begin 9th grade at Nashville School of the Arts next fall.  Papa is proud!  Here’s a pic in Oceanway’s Control Room A:

Steppin’ Out!

I have been invited to sit on a panel at Kirsti Manna’s Songwriter Girl camp in Nashville on May 16th, 2009.  Kirsti is a great songwriter whose songs have been cut by Blake Shelton, Big and Rich, and others.

Here’s a link if you want more info about Kirsti’s camp: http://www.songwritergirl.com/

You’ve been served…..

Click below to see what happens when you (allegedly) spend a lot of time on Limewire.

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Hello, Darlin’

Conway Twitty died in 1993.  Thereafter, his children and widow engaged in tumultuous litigation over assets of his estate.

It’s not over.  The children (and their limited partnership) have sued Sony/ATV Music Publishing to rescind assignments of copyright renewal interests which were executed in 1990.

I remember seeing Conway tooling around Hendersonville, Tennessee in the early 1990′s in an AMC Pacer.  He lived at Twitty City not far from Johnny Cash’s home.  Both places are gone–Cash’s house burned to the ground and Twitty City is now Trinity City, a televangelist theatre operated by Paul and Jan Crouch.

Here is a copy of the children’s complaint filed in the Davidson County Chancery Court: 0699_001.pdf

When in Nashville….

..be sure to visit the Nashville Jazz Workshop.  The NJW is an educational and performance facility that regularly has concerts in its performance hall, the Jazz Cave.  One of Nashville’s best-kept secrets!!!!!

Website: http://www.nashvillejazz.org/

Hello world!

Buenas tardes from snow-covered Nashville! 

I am an intellectual property and entertainment attorney practicing in Nashville, Tennessee.  Not surprisingly, this blog will focus on those areas–but a law degree is not required to extract something meaningful from my posts. 

This blog will focus on recent decisions in copyright, trademark, and patent law and will attempt to distill them to simple and understandable principles.  Of course, I will likely fail if the opinion issues from the 9th Circuit .

I also will post off-topic ramblings about various legal and non-legal subjects.  The good news is that none of these posts will be political or religious in nature.  That assumes that Miles Davis, Maurice Ravel, Dexter Gordon, Robben Ford, Eva Cassidy, or Pat Metheny are not messengers of God.  Of course, that assumption is rebuttable.

My posts are not legal advice and are for entertainment purposes only.  Every legal matter is unique.  Contact a qualified lawyer if you have a legal problem or simply need legal advice. 

Now, let’s get it started…..