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Digital Era Causes Shifts in Roles of Record Labels and Music Publishers
The digital-music era has resulted in many shifts in the music business. A major one has been the creative and economic repositioning of record labels and music publishers. In the following interview, coordinated by Entertainment Law & Finance Editor-in-Chief Stan Soocher, Keith C. Hauprich and Bob Donnelly discuss this repositioning and related issues from the publisher's and artist attorney's perspectives. Hauprich is Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs for Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. Inc. New York attorney Donnelly is a partner with the law firm of Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg P.A., with whom he recently merged his practice after serving as a sole practitioner specializing in music matters for 30 years.
EL&F: As the music industry continues to experience the traumas and triumphs of moving into the digital age, the future of music publishing is seen as more robust than that of record labels. What are some of the reasons for this observation?
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