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UW law professor goes to music school, launches interdisciplinary Music Law & Policy class
Arts and entertainment | UW Notebook | Video March 7, 2023 Peter Nicolas was in a parent-boy or girl new music class with his daughter when he resolved to pursue a prolonged-dormant enthusiasm. Nicolas joined the University of Washington College of Legislation in 2000, and he’s nationally known as an skilled in constitutional legislation, evidence, sexual orientation legislation and intellectual residence. Now Nicolas has put together his legal teaching with his rising educational fascination in the analyze of new music. His new class, Music Regulation & Plan, is open to learners in the regulation school and in the School of New music, the place Nicolas is at this time…
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Music Lawyer Peter Paterno on Metallica, Napster, Dr. Dre, Britney
Veteran music business attorney Peter Paterno’s client list is dazzling enough — Dr. Dre, the Tupac Shakur estate, Metallica, Van Morrison, Blink-182, Twenty One Pilots, Skrillex, Tyler the Creator, Q Tip, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Linda Ronstadt, Roddy Ricch, Sia, the Henry Mancini Estate, Shirley Manson, Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos and many others over the course of a 40-something year career. Yet what’s not revealed in that list are some of the pivotal journeys he’s been on with them — sure, plenty of label contracts and every variety of deal, but also working as a young Prince’s first major music-industry attorney; representing Metallica as they (rather unsubtley) attempted…
