• Early Music

    Miami 2001

    By Joy Lynn Clark 09/08/2016 It was 2001.  I was in college, producing audio, and doing freelance street promo for various nightclubs, ad agencies, and marketing companies.  My partner was like, “Let’s go to Miami for the Electronic Music Festival”.  I am like, “I gotta make an album”.  That year we checked out Crobar in Miami and we also helped promote a night at Ibiza. In addition to all of the flyers I handed out, I also gave away 3 albums: Bang My Sh!t, (my house record), The Friday Knight record (which was actually my rap record which also featured Tez E. Bare and Ms. Shyste Shy)  and the Thoroughbreds…

  • Journal

    BLURRED LINES: Bringing Focus to the 9th Circuit’s Copyright Decision In Williams v. Gaye

    reprinted from https://www.natlawreview.com/article/blurred-lines-bringing-focus-to-9th-circuit-s-copyright-decision-williams-v-gaye  On March 21, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in the highly publicized copyright suit, Pharrell Williams, et. al., v. Frankie Christian Gaye, et. al, No. 15-56880 (Slip Op.; Dkt. 93-1) (Mar. 21, 2018  9th Cir.) (“Williams”).  Given the lower court’s controversial holding in favor of the copyright holders, many expected the Ninth Circuit, a highly influential court on copyright matters, to take the opportunity to address some of the important substantive questions raised by this case, providing guidance to the lower courts regarding the scope of copyright protection properly afforded to such musical works.  More specifically, many legal practitioners and industry…