THE IRISH rock musician Van Morrison offers a piece of hard-learned counsel for today’s pop stars: “Music is spiritual. The business is not.” Should performers miss the message, a new breed of New York entertainment law attorneys certainly would not. Witness the examples of James E. McMillan and Oren J. Warshavsky. Both these 33-years-olds were youthful entertainers. And both are flush-in the complete sense-from putting industry rascals through the legal wringer.
Around last Christmas time, Mr. McMillan trumped in a tangle of lawsuits involving his rap artist clients 8 Ball and MJG. According to hip-hop columnist Final Lee, writing for the Web site Urban Network, it was the attorney’s “hardcore evidence and perseverance” that won the day. Namely, a settlement that coughed up royalty payments on two million albums sold, along with 100 percent return of publishing rights and full ownership of master recordings.
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