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Does anyone have or know about Commercial General Liability Insurance for performing musicians? I've run into this twice on contracts for providing live music for the city or state. It is the responsibility of the producer. If someone else is hiring you then you aren't the producer. If the band als...

... and the first thing the defendant will do is cease and desist - thereby getting you nothing in terms of royalties and making you know as a litigant who doesn't play by the rules. Suggestion: don't bother with the contest in the first place. No, no, no! ... You get the attorney involved after yo...

From your link: >To prove copyright infringement, a plaintiff must establish (1) ownership of a valid copyright; (2) factual copying; and (3) substantial similarity< I am not going to play amateur attorney here and I suggest that you follow my example. There are many cases of Copyright infringement ...

A G5 running 10.4x should be able to run Classic. It will not boot into OS 9. DP has a module for notation based on Mosaic but, to my knowledge, cannot open Mosaic files. How wrong is that? That MOTU never partnered with another company to allow something else to open those files is ... typical of M...

Maybe he's charging what they're worth?

(rimshot)

OK, cheap shot, I know but I just couldn't resist.

My first thought when hearing some of the comparisons on youtube like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ofFw9DKu_I&feature=related was - damn straight - nailed. Apparently video already pulled due to copyright claim by EMI Music. :( Not sure how they can do that - it is snippets - not th...

>To win a lawsuit Satriani must prove that Coldplay had access (actually heard) his song.<

That hasn't been true for many years.

If you have an MTP, why are you using the MIDI port on your UltraLite? Try using the MTP only for MIDI and see if you can get it working that way. Not knowing the Yamaha, that's the best I can offer.

Yea... MOTU does some really stupid things regarding customer service. I can only see the 5 and 6 upgrades when I log in and I have been a customer since 2.1.

>Tech tool never reports memory problems....< That is the only thing that I have ever found it useful for. >Tech Tool pro has a ram test that I can run from 1 minute to 90 min so i will start there...< Good place to start. If your machine crashes during the test, remove some of the RAM and run again

>except where prohibited by law.< Not being a lawyer, I will not comment exceot to say that a Copyright attorney should have no problem seeing that many of the terms of the agreement are prohibited by the Copyright law. Even if they were to control your mechanical rights, you would still be entitled...

How are you going to be paid if someone wants to cover your work, use it in a film or play it on radio, TV or the internet? Or is getting paid unimportant (if so, don't read the following)? If you aren't a member of a PRO (ASCAP, BMI or SESAC in the USA), do a publisher name search and get the proce...

>Even if they objected, I doubt they'd get a court to hear them if you did what the law suggests< Compulsory licensing is just what it implies: You are imposing a license on the publisher by paying the statutory royalty and notifying by certified letter. The provision for this is in the Copyright la...

I would agree that two of the 8pre is probably the best. $1,100 anywhere. Next best - and a little less expensive is one 8pre and one used 828 MkII Firewire. You could make do with two of the 828 MkII FW (or MkIII but that would blow your budget). A pair of Travelers would work nicely - or one and a...

No. That won't work but here's what will (and it won't cost any more): Find a 2408 expansion module (no PCI card) and use it to take the ADAT out from the 8pre into your computer. A MkI will work just fine if you have a 324 or 424 card - I see these all the time for $100 now. That same 2408 can be u...