Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez, one-half of the influential Masters At Work, along with Little Louie Vega, recently released “Be Your Freak” feat. Josh Milan on Dope Wax/Kay-Dee via The Orchard, and it’s now been on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart for 10 weeks, most recently at number 14.
We’re very proud to be working with Kenny. He’s a profound and prolific artist, and we look forward to continued success.
If you want to be part of the action, Kenny will be performing with DJ Spinna on April 7 at Mighty in San Francisco. Get advance tickets here – but hurry, they’re selling out fast!
We are proud to announce a recent signing which makes The Orchard the exclusive distributor in the US and Canada of the new LP by Vintage Trouble titled The Bomb Shelter Sessions.
Managed by the inimitable Doc McGhee, Vintage Trouble is based in L.A. and has been on the road non-stop, spending most of 2011 in Europe – including several opening dates with Bon Jovi, and appearances on Later… with Jools Holland (see clip below).
If you’re looking for a way to describe the band, look no further than their Facebook page, where they qualify their music as ”live-wired, straight-shootin’, dirty-mouth’d, pelvis-pushin’, juke music.” That about covers it.
If you happen to be in Austin for SXSW this week, catch Vintage Trouble at the Moody Theater tonight at 9PM. If you’re back home, enjoy this video of their live performance on Jools Holland, and look out for The Bomb Shelter Sessions, all set for release in April!
If you weren’t able to make it down to SXSW this week for the four panels we’re participating in, here are two you can catch nearby at the end of the month:
Right here in New York, Jason Pascal – VP, Licensing & Associate General of The Orchard – will be at the Institute for Information Law & Policy to talk about international approaches to copyright reform. The date is March 27; RSVP to this address by 3/20.
If copyright isn’t your thing, head down South (though not as far as Austin!) to Philadelphia for March 28, when The Orchard’s CTO Josh Builder will be attending Phorum, a technology conference for business and IT professionals. There, he will participate in a panel entitled “Views from the Enterprise,” where he and other industry experts will discuss the impact of cloud technology on their business and how it could help benefit them in the future.
Here’s all the information you need to catch Jason and Josh this month:
Panel Discussion: International Perspectives on Copyright Reform
with Jason Pascal
6:00pm – 8:00 pm
Faculty Commons, W201 (185 W. Broadway – New York, NY)
Is current U.S. copyright law effectively dealing with online piracy? What laws have countries such as France, United Kingdom, and Spain implemented to address the piracy issue? Has anyone found the solution? Our program will address various international approaches to copyright law regulation as a means to combat piracy. Our discussion will focus on recent legislation such as HADOPI (three strikes) in France, the now-abandoned PIPA/SOPA in the United States, Sinde Law in Spain, and international treaties such as ACTAe. Panelists will compare the effectiveness of these approaches and the impact that it has on curbing online piracy.
Panel Discussion: Views from the Enterprise (Track 2)
with Josh Builder
2:45pm – 3:30pm
World Café Live (3025 Walnut Street – Philadelphia, PA)
A panel of enterprise users discuss how cloud technology is impacting their business models and enabling them to disrupt competition, create new economic models and gain market share. Panelists include Josh Builder of The Orchard, Robert Butler of the Hay Group, Simon Moss of Pneuron Corporation and a representative from JPMorgan Chase. Moderated by Rob Kelley.
(Just to get in the mood, while I’m writing this, I’m listening to our Don’t Mess With Texas SX+Orch Sampler on Rdio. I recommend you do as well while you read this post. Its also up on Spotify AND Amazon!)
We’re talking SXSW here. No other festival in the world has Europeans Facebooking about breakfast tacos and Shiner Beer three months before their arrival. Nor can any other festival compete with the charm of the beloved Austin, Texas. Austin Hippies and Hipsters unite. If you’re not a Hippy or Hipster, you don’t even care – you’re in Texas, in March, and it’s 70 degrees. Not to mention you’re listening to an unmatchable variety of artists out of 2K buzz acts from around the globe.
That said, we can’t forget that it’s not all play. SXSW hosts a ton of amazing panels and educational events that reflect the side of SXSW that reminds us that we mean business, too. We have some of our very own staff members getting their panel on at SXSW this year:
Bring your questions and notepads as you’re bound to learn something from this crew!
This year, on the heels of some exciting news (did you hear?) we’re lucky to be joining our friends from IODA for their Day Party on Wednesday March 14th at The Red Eyed Fly. They’ve got a killer line up with the likes of The Oh Sees, Dan Mangan, Ruthie Foster, Y La Bamba and many more. Check out IODA’s Free SX Music Sampler here.
We recently invited our clients to submit questions that they’d like to ask Brad Navin, our CEO, so that we can post answers right here on The Daily Rind. However, after taking a look at the questions we realized that we’d be most helpful if we get the most qualified Orchard-ite to answer each question.
For the question below, we reached out to Jason Pascal, VP, Licensing & Associate General Counsel of The Orchard:
How does an independent recording company go about obtaining a “master license” for a specific song, not a sample, but the entire song. What is the correct process? There seems to be little information anywhere on the web on this.
Depending upon your intended use, the best answer to this question is that, in order to use a recording owned by another, you need written permission.
In the majority of cases, the record label that released the record (or its successor) owns the recording and that company would have to give you written permission to use their recording. Tell them what you want to use it for; they’ll quote you a price; and you’ll negotiate the license.
Alternatively, the artist will own the recording and you would have to reach out to that artist directly. Rights may have reverted to the artist (or the his/her heirs), or the artist may have created the recording on his or her own dime and now owns it (subject to any licensed he or she may have granted). Artist ownership is becoming more common as a result of the DIY world we currently live in.
Of course, there are exceptions, and if you’re looking for rights to use a recording owned by a major label, it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to obtain a license unless you’re willing to pay large fees.
- Jason Pascal, VP, Licensing & Associate General Counsel
