Two differing opinions.
“I argue that a holding by the Labor Commission that a talent agent is necessary to procure or negotiate remix agreements would set the industry on its ear,” says Hochberg. “Remixes are an increasingly common feature on the pop music landscape today and are never procured or negotiated by talent agents, to our knowledge.”
LMFAO’s lawyer offers a different assessment.
“McLean’s lawyers have found the only expert in the world who has ever called a producing agreement or a mixing agreement a recording agreement,” says McPherson. “The expert has said basically that any agreement for any step in the process of completing and delivering a finished recording to the record label is a recording agreement, which I supposed would include the guy who sweeps the studio, brings coffee, cleans the studio, sets up the microphones, etc. He is undaunted by the fact that mixing is not even part of the recording process, and is done after all of the actual recording has been completed.”
As for when this trial gets completed, it’s expected to wrap up next week.
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