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Music Law

T. 212.470.7515

One Grand Central Place

Two
musicians
who happen
to be lawyers.

We help artists keep what they made.

Serving Clients Throughout New York and California.

 •The Sound Check
Tr. 01–05

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A five-part diagnostic for your music business.
01
Copyright Registration
What you own, on paper.
02
Splits & Ownership
Who gets paid — and how much.
03
Royalty Streams
The money you're already owed.
04
AI Exposure
What's being done with your voice.
05
Contract Red Flags
Clauses that quietly cost you later.
$495 solo  ·  $995 band
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T.212.470.7515
One Grand Central Place
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 4600
New York, NY 10165
Where we stand

We represent the musicians making the music.
Not the platforms automating it.

Songwriters, producers, performers, and bands whose music starts with them. The question is whether the music is yours.

01 · The Firm

Lawyers who
play.

Allen.James LLP is a two-partner firm. Andrew in San Diego, Ted in Westchester. We met in law school in a band, and we have been friends across two coasts and two decades of practice.

We recorded our first album as Buzz Awhile in 2026 — three months at Outraged Studios and Arnow Studios in New York. It is not the firm's pitch. It is just a thing we made.

Edward James Kuch
in New York
NY · NJ · DC
Edward ("Ted") has spent more than 20 years in practice, including senior roles at a Big Four firm and at boutique advisory firms in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. He has championed the cause of artistic freedom since 2006. He plays guitar, whistles, and sings, and co-wrote Buzz Awhile's maiden album. Ted lives in Westchester County, New York with his wife and two young sons.
Andrew Allen Moher
in California
CA · IL · NY
Andrew has assisted his clients with contract issues and litigation for nearly 20 years, and has been a passionate advocate for musicians' rights since opening his own practice in 2010. Originally from Chicago and a graduate of the University of Michigan, he plays guitar, piano, and dobro, and co-wrote the songs on Buzz Awhile's 2026 debut. Andrew lives in San Diego with his wife and daughter.
02 · Liner Notes

What we read
when we want to remember
why this work exists.

Five stories from the history of recorded music that tell us something about now.

A copyright case that built the doctrine the AI suits now turn on. A man sued for sounding like himself. An inventor of rock and roll who died without royalties. A catalog that paid everyone except its maker for sixty years. A woman who taught Chuck Berry to play, and was forgotten for forty-five years.

A1
George Harrison.
The doctrine — subconscious infringement, access plus substantial similarity — is the same one the indie class actions against Suno and Udio now turn on.
Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs
1971 — 1976
A2
John Fogerty.
Sued for sounding like himself by the company that owned his old catalog. The structural injury voice-cloning AI replicates as a service.
Fogerty v. Fantasy
1985 — 1994
A3
Bo Diddley.
"They counted on me not knowing what to ask for." The contracts that take everything still depend on the same condition.
A Life Without Royalties
1955 — 2008
A4
Robert Johnson.
Twenty-nine recordings. A catalog owned by everyone except him for sixty years. Every untracked catalog is one waiting to be discovered by someone else.
The Unowned Catalog
1936 — 1998
A5
Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame forty-five years after her death. Erasure is the older sibling of training-data invisibility.
The Erased Pioneer
1938 — 2018
03 · The Work

Copyright, splits, royalties, contracts,
and the questions AI is asking of all of them.

We work on the legal architecture of a music career — what you own, what you are owed, what you have signed, and what is being done with your voice when you are not in the room.

Our diagnostic — the Sound Check — is the door. A flat fee, a clear report, fixed-price quotes for any fixes you need. No retainer.

04 · Now Playing

One thing we made.

Cincinnati Fox
From Buzz Awhile, 2026
We recorded Buzz Awhile over three months at Outraged Studios and Arnow Studios in New York. It is not the firm's pitch — it is just a thing we made.
The Sound Check

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Sound Check.

A clear status on what you own, what you're owed, and where you're exposed.
$495 solo · $995 band.

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