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Born in 1948 in Santa Catarina, Brasil. He grew up in Curitiba, Parana, Brasil. Ademar Fonseca is a highly talented brazilian musician with uncommon knowledge of music gained since early age. At age eight he acquired his first acoustic guitar. At age 13 he put together his first band. It was a duo with his brother Ademir on vocal and percussion. As his style developed he continued to perform in bars, musical shows, radio stations, theaters, concert halls, museums and in the most famous carnival in the world. His talent with a variety of musical instruments: upright bass, eletric bass guitar, acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar and vocal, only added to his appeal. Here in the USA, he enjoyed different bands, participated in recording a CD with the brazilian band "O Som do Jazz", also as a freelancer musician, now devoting full time to music and playing several diffferent styles like bossa nova, pop, jazz, blues ...showing "samba" authentically from a true Brazilian.

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Composer/Guitarist Joshua Stamper’s Trademark Blur Between Classical-Jazz-Experimental Textures In Latest Album 'Soma Schema'

Composer/Guitarist Joshua Stamper’s Trademark Blur Between Classical-Jazz-Experimental Textures In Latest Album 'Soma Schema'

Source: AMT Public Relations

Straddling the jazz, classical, and experimental worlds, acclaimed Philadelphia composer/performer Joshua Stamper celebrates his 12th release as a leader: soma schema. Featuring his jazz-adjacent sextet color as time, soma schema is an opus of compositions and audio-collages inspired by Olivier Messiaen’s time-stretching processes, chopped-and-screwed remix techniques, and the harmonic worlds of Bill Evans, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Wayne Shorter. The music is imbued with love for the wild and mysterious “soma” of the physical world and the complex “schema” of higher-order ...

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Trademark Basics For Musicians

Trademark Basics For Musicians

Source: HypeBot

Here, we break down the basics behind trademark law, take a look a how to define who owns a trademark, trademark licensing, how one infringes on a trademark, and other important things to keep in mind. Guest post by Becki C. Lee Esq on Watt Your band name may already be a trademark. I don’t mean that someone else may have already trademarked your band name (though that could be the case); I mean that, just by using your band ...

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Roger Waters: After Dark Side, Pink Floyd Was Just 'Clinging to the Trademark'

Roger Waters: After Dark Side, Pink Floyd Was Just 'Clinging to the Trademark'

Source: Something Else!

In some ways, time seems to have softened Roger Waters' feelings about his old band, at least based on comments he made Wednesday on the Howard Stern radio program. But he can still be brutally honest about their legacy. Waters, the creative engine behind Pink Floyd's multimedia smash hit The Wall, famously dragged the remaining members into court when they chose to continue recording under the band moniker without him in the 1980s—filing papers that called the group “a spent ...

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Back to Basics: The Importance of Trademark

Back to Basics: The Importance of Trademark

Source: HypeBot

The music industry is in the midst of a radical transformation. The speed with which distribution and streaming technologies, D.I.Y. marketing platforms, and innovative publishing trends are emerging and dying off is enough to overwhelm even the most seasoned artist. And yet, there remain a few legal essentials that every artist, old or new, must not overlook if they plan to take full advantage of the opportunities present in today's music business. With this post, I hope to refocus some ...

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Trial To Determine Damages Suffered By Experience Hendrix In Trademark Infringement Case Set To Begin May 2, 2011

Trial To Determine Damages Suffered By Experience Hendrix In Trademark Infringement Case Set To Begin May 2, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci

Seattle, March 10, 2011—In March, 2009, Experience Hendrix, LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company founded by James A. “Al" Hendrix, father of Jimi Hendrix, entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, filed a lawsuit against Andrew Pitsicalis and his companies. That suit, filed in Federal District Court, contended that unauthorized use of Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix' trademarks by Pitsicalis, including the companies' headshot logos and Jimi Hendrix signature marks, was an infringement of those federally registered trademarks. ...

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Wide Hive Records Embroiled In Trademark Infringement Suit With Sunset Scavenger Garbage Collections Company

Wide Hive Records Embroiled In Trademark Infringement Suit With Sunset Scavenger Garbage Collections Company

Source: All About Jazz

San Francisco, CA: In an unfortunate and costly state of affairs, Wide Hive Records, a San Francisco based independent record label, was forced to settle out of court on a trademark infringement law suit filed against them by Sunset Scavenger, a garbage collections company in California. In June 2004, Wide Hive records released a sophomore release by Bay Area turntablist extraordinaire, DJ Zeph. The highly anticipated album entitled Sunset Scavenger included a likeness of two garbage trucks as the album ...

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