In what at first appeared to be an annoucement straight out of left field, it turns out that Al Sharpton and artists rights have a lot more in common than first meets the eye, via Sharpton’s National Action Network.
Check out this little ditty from Billboard (registration required so I have cut and pasted it from an email sent to me):
Sharpton To Call For Changes In Music Biz.
Sharpton To Call For Changes In Music Biz
Billboard Bulletin:
June 05, 2002,
Cochran, Sharpton To Call For Changes In Music Biz
Seeking to end what they call the “subservient
way” major record
labels
treat recording artists, lawyer Johnnie Cochran
and the Rev. Al
Sharpton
will today hold a news conference in L.A. in which
they plan to
propose
“radical changes” for the music industry.Operating as the legal arm of Sharpton’s New
York-based National Action Network civil-rights
organization, Cochran
is
seeking meetings with the majors to “try and get a
sense how [artist]
relationships and contracts are evolved,”
according to a
spokesperson.
Changes they plan to propose include a system that
would emulate the
free-agency market that exists in professional
sports; presumably
this would
give artists greater opportunities to shop their
services to the
highest
bidder.The RIAA did not return calls for comment.
— Erik Gruenwedel, L.A.
I need assistance in finding a lawyer that works with tramtic brain injury, my son was injured in a cab accident. I have filed a claim but never settled the case. We live in Detroit Mi. Please help us.
My son was involved in a cab auto accident we have filed a claim and never settled the case.
I was recently fired from a job that is know to hire ex-felons. I failed to listed a misdemnor charge of battery on my application, plus a case of agg battery, domestic battery which was nolle poss and I only worked there for about 23 days but I quit a job where i had worked for a year plus past up a opportunity to goto E.m.t class my previos job was offering plus i drop out of college for this job. I really thought that I had this job and was let go and left jobless and hungry. What can i do about this situation because I looked up some information where it seem this company has violated the law.
I was recently fired from a job that is know to hire ex-felons. I failed to listed a misdemnor charge of battery on my application, plus a case of agg battery, domestic battery which was nolle poss and I only worked there for about 23 days but I quit a job where i had worked for a year plus past up a opportunity to go to E.m.t class my previos job was offering plus i drop out of college for this job. I really thought that I had this job and was let go and left jobless and hungry. What can i do about this situation because I looked up some information where it seem this company has violated the law.
I need to contact Johnny Cochran via e-mail or phone.
Mr. Cochran,
I am trying to contact you on behalf of my family. Please call or email me, it is very important that I talk to you or someone who represents you.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Helen Swain
My wife and I have been descriminated against by an potitial employer. We took a test and the results to the tests have no paper trail just like the new voting machines that are going to be used in 2004 election. lets get bussy and bring the issue out now. befor its too late.
Dear Mr. Cochran,
I am in desperate need of your help. I have lost my savings with “good old boy” attorneys and don’t know what else to do. My rights have been violated and I am fighting to remain in my workforce. Can you help me?
Dear Mr. Cochran,
I am in desperate need of your help. I have lost my savings with “good old boy” attorneys and don’t know what else to do. My rights have been violated and I am fighting to remain in my workforce. Can you help me?
Dear Mr. Cochran,
I am in desperate need of your help. I have lost my savings with “good old boy” attorneys and don’t know what else to do. My rights have been violated and I am fighting to remain in my workforce. Can you help me?
I would like to contact Mr. Cochran for a class action Medical Malpractice suit. This suit involves doctors addicting a patient on legal narcotics and keeping him on them for at least four years. The narcotics are codiene, temazapam, diazapam, zoloft and effexor, to name just a few. All without trying to find the root of the problem. Each time the patient complained, they just prescribed more drugs. One drug had the patient losing 5-19 lbs per week. Can you hepl me?
Dear Mr. Cochran
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Actually, My comment has nothing to do withis article-I live in Richmond CA and I was informed while working at the USDA that the Federal Government sprays chemicals over the people of Richmond in an attempt to correct the Ozon layer problem we are having. These chemicals are known to cause birth defects in children born and carried in Richmond, CA- I need someone like Johnny Cochran to represent the people of Richmond because we have no power. I’m aware that there have been several chemical spills in Richmond, But I watch planes everyday spray chemicals in the air leaving a long line of fumes creating a toxic enviroment for the people of Richmond. And they wonder why people of Richmond are going crazy.
Short version: While receiving surgery for and recovering from prostate cancer, on a verified medical leave of absence, I was administratively accused of abandoning my job as an Employment Program Representative and given an awol separation, ending my 14 year career with the State of California. This leave period is legally covered under the Family Medical Leave Act, and I should not have been separated. I am looking for an attorney to litigate.
Irony: At the time of the treatment, recovery, and separation, I was employed by the Employment Development Department (EDD). EDD is the CA State agency entrusted with enforcing various labor laws throughout the State of California, including the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), California
I have been violated severely. I own a daycare center in monroe, la. The feds came in and took all records. I have been threatened to be indicted beginning March 11, 2004. Although nothing has happened so for, the state refuses to pay me but at the same time, I still have a license to operate. Basically everyone has either shunned me or ignored my calls for help. I have lost everything I own. House, vehicles….everything. I do have faith in God and that’s why I am writing. I hope this letter touches someone’s heart to respond to a desperate cry of help in Jesus name……….Thank you, Monica D. Tatum-McWilliams