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Gibson Guitar and Baldwin Piano are sponsoring the “Gibson/Baldwin Night at the Net,” an annual pro-celebrity tennis event that opens the 79th Annual Mercedes-Benz Cup tennis tournament Monday, July 25 in Straus Stadium at the Los Angeles Tennis Center at UCLA. Proceeds from the event will benefit the MusiCares Foundation, …

Simon “Si” Waronker, the patriarch of the famous musical Waronker clan — son Lenny (producer, pres of Warner and DreamWorks Records), granddaughter Anna (that dog, co-founder Five Foot Two Records), grandson Steve Berman (head of sales & marketing at Interscope/Geffen/A&M) — died in his sleep Tuesday in Los Angeles at …

If an artist claiming he was duped out of a fortune by one or more trusted advisors isn’t the oldest story in the world, it is one of them. And it is so common as to be a cliche: the “creative” personality focused on translating impulse into reality, the attentive …

Absorbing and potentially far-reaching copyright case decided by the New York State Court of Appeals today, Capitol Records v. Naxos of America. The state’s highest court ruled common law in New York “protects ownership interests in sound recordings made before 1972 that are not covered by the federal copyright act.” …

Many people have quite heated positions on the subject of the new European Constitution but to my way of thinking, it’s such a simple no-brainer that at times it’s hard to remember what all the fuss is about. The proposed reforms will strengthen my rights as a citizen of the …

Marketing Playbook: The Manual for Growing Organizations The world of business is a strange one. Artsy people often think of corporations as drab, soulless places, but nothing could be further from the truth. Companies are home to many wonders and mysteries, as most anyone who’s worked in one will tell …

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of her monster Jagged Little Pill, which has sold 30 million copies worldwide, almost 15 million in the U.S., and generated four Grammys including album of the year, Alanis Morissette, now 30, is recording an acoustic version of the album with her original co-writer and …

In papers to be filed today, an artist’s group is backing file sharing service Grokster against the entertainment industry in a critical copyright case before the Supreme Court, scheduled to begin March 29. Background On December 10, 2004 the Supreme Court agreed to hear the entertainment industry’s case against two …

Sadly, this solicitation no longer holds: “The worlds largest and most successful commercial recording facility.” “The completion of the Hit Factory in ’93, set a new bench mark against which many recording facilities will be judged well into the new millenium. The studios offer traditional recording techniques supported by innovative …

The other shoe has dropped in the two-year investigation of rap label Murder Inc. (now called “The Inc.” for obvious PR reasons) — partly owned by Island Def Jam, a Universal Music label — for murder, money-laundering, gun charges and a variety of strong-arm tactics. Damn, these fuckers are unsavory: …