Songwriter Equity Act
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03-23-2015, 05:48 PM,
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My Alter Ego
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RE: Songwriter Equity Act
Quote:Music lawyer rocks the industry again
Ask Richard S. Busch, the lawyer who earlier this monthwon a nearly $7.4 million copyright suit against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, why he is so successful, and he will mention the 1997 film “The Devil’s Advocate,” in which Al Pacino plays Satan posing as a master lawyer.
In one scene, a modestly dressed Pacino shares a secret with his stylish and polished protégé, played by Keanu Reeves. “I’m a surprise,” Pacino tells him. “They don’t see me coming.”
“I think that’s me,” Busch, a partner in the firm King & Ballow in Nashville, said the other day with a laugh. “I’m sure Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke said, ‘Who’s this guy from Nashville, Tennessee?’ They didn’t see me coming.”
Busch is not a surprise any longer. In one of the most important copyright cases in the music industry in years, he triumphed over Williams and Thicke and their elite Los Angeles law firm, convincing a federal jury that the songwriters’ 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” had too closely copied Marvin Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.”
In truth, the lawyers representing the two musicians knew exactly who Busch was. In the small world of high-powered entertainment lawyers, Busch has carved out a niche as a crusading outsider, winning cases that have had wide-ranging repercussions for the music industry.
Link to full article:
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/mus...try-again/
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