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March 1, 2020Buck McKinney

Creating The Sound Of Our Lives

A Practical Overview of Music Licensing is presented by Buck McKinney. This article and the accompanying session address fundamental concepts involved in music licensing, several common music licensing scenarios, and practical tips for locating rights owners and administrators. This is document 1 of 6.

April 1, 2020Buck McKinney

Attachment B - Mechanical License Agreement

This is a sample license agreement for a composition of music. This is document 3 of 6 of Creating the Sound of Our Lives.

April 1, 2020Buck McKinney

Attachment D - Movie Synchronization and Performing Rights License

An example of a license to a motion picture. This is document 5 of 6 of Creating the Sound of Our Lives.

April 1, 2020Buck McKinney

Attachment E - Synchronization License for Copyrighted Works

This is a synchronization license for a copyrighted work. This is document 6 of 6 of Creating the Sounds of Our Lives.

March 3, 2023Matt Bracy, Bradley L. Whitlock

Contract Drafting

This paper is comprised of excerpts from Waks, Whitlock, Texas Practice Guide—Business Transactions,Chapter 1, Contracts (Thompson Reuters, 2022). Section references are to the particular section from the Chapter where the excerpted material is located.

May 17, 2015Adrienne Randle Bond

Drafting Considerations for Exculpation of Duties (Including Fiduciary) in LLC Agreements

This paper will discuss and set out suggested provisions for Texas LLC Agreements for exculpation of “Governing Persons” under the TBOC and in the LLC contractual provisions. This process has several component parts, including statutory provisions, common law directives and influences from Delaware law, as well as contractual “glosses” that have developed in practice for specific activities. In drafting an LLC Agreement, the practitioner must be cognizant of the actual statutory provisions governing the duties of Governing Persons, the case law that is developing about LLCs, as well as the statutorily permitted management structures unique to the LLC. The statutory provisions for LLCs on exculpation of Governing Persons are not the same as those in effect for either corporations or partnerships, so traditional exculpatory provisions cannot be directly copied. In addition to statutory formulations, and the growing body of case law on limited liability companies, common law on agency must be considered. Further, the management of the LLC as an entity can be accomplished by at least three separate groups, the members, the managers and the officers, depending on how one determines to organize the entity. Management contracts by affiliated entities add another level of complexity. The multiplicity of choices for daily management requires a translation of traditional corporate and partnership formulations. This paper will raise the questions and suggest possible responses in this ever fertile field of legal controversies.

April 15, 2011Michael P. Maslanka

Non-Compete Non-Solicit Breach of Fiduciary Duties

This article is a set of cases that examine various aspects of non-competition clauses in agreements, non-solicitation, and breaches of fiduciary duties.