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Part Two of Two: The Situation in the USA - An in-depth look at U.S. live performance royalty fees, ASCAP/BMI Consent Decrees, and why many songwriters still aren’t fully paid.

Part One (of Two): The Situation in the UK and Europe - Amanda Harcourt reveals why UK & EU songwriters miss out on live royalties, exposing PRS practices and systemic gaps in music rights.

How Can We Reward the Talent When Their Creations Are Used in AI-Generated Works?

The History of Women’s Leadership in America Through the Eyes of Our U.S. First Ladies Bountiful Examples and Lessons for Blue Highway and for Our Clients By Andy Och, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Client Relations   This past weekend marked the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War in the United States, and outside of remembrances at Boston’s Old North Church and battle re-enactments at Lexington and Concord Massachusetts, reaction to the anniver

When Change is Thrust Upon Us So Swiftly, How Do We Respond With Purpose? By Andy Och, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Client Relations , and Emily Danzinger, BHA Senior Intern  Change is inevitable and constant. We all know this. Some changes are welcome, while many others are forced upon us and are often inconvenient if not completely disruptive, to say the very least. All change requires new and expertly devised plans, and precisely formulated strategies that encourag

The Rule of Law, Or..? By Ian Christopher McCaleb, BHA Founder & Principal A significant number of new recipients have joined our email list for this latest distribution of the Blue Highway Beacon, the “as warranted” newsletter of Blue Highway Advisory , and Blue Highway Global .    …Though, Blue Highway Global will soon be debuting its own regular publications, notices and client alerts. Please be on the watch.   For now, however, many of the new additions to our list are di

Building for the Times, the Sequel: Expanding Our Crisis Practice By Ian Christopher McCaleb, BHA Founder & Principal Even More New Capabilities and New Arrivals Last week’s launch announcement for our Open-Source Intelligence-based support and investigations sister company, Blue Highway Global (BHG), was met with the sort of attention, interest and enthusiasm that the architects of any new business venture pray for in the months and weeks that precede a carefully planned deb

By Ian Christopher McCaleb, BHA Founder & Principal Building for the Times in Which We Find Ourselves New Capabilities and New Arrivals Well, what a start to the year we’ve all had.   I’ve spent a bit of time fussing over this latest Beacon introduction, given that developments, prevailing winds and accompanying attitudes in both of our operating bases, the US and the UK, might presently and properly be characterized as “fluid, with a hint of volatility.”   But “fluid, with a

By Amanda Harcourt, Blue Highway Advisory Lead: International Copyright, Contracts and Rights Administration Where Facts?  Journalism, Politics, Facts, Justice. Entering into 2025 and a new US presidency, Meta has followed Musk’s X and announced the removal of the fact-checking safety protocols from its Facebook, Instagram and Threads feeds in the United States.  Despite pushback from civil liberties groups, the move was justified by Meta’s Press Senior Counsel as working in

Blue Highway’s Main Page Has Relaunched. Why Now?   By Andy Och, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Client Relations and Ian Christopher McCaleb, BHA Founder & Principal    For a firm as unique as Blue Highway Advisory, revisiting, revising and refining our own messaging and communications are as key to our success and growth as the similar strategies and recommendations we offer to our varied range of clients. Even as our roster and geographic reach expands, and our breadt

The scattershot, sometimes gleefully unpredictable publishing schedule of Blue Highway Advisory’s signature newsletter continues apace, as the world at large, and most especially the many of us in the strategic advisory sector, ponder what the spheres of news, law, politics, culture and human interaction will look and feel like through the course of the next four or more years.   We’ll have more to say about all of these enormously important subjects in due course. (And, just

There’s been an unusual seven-week gap between Beacon dispatches, thanks, as we expected might be the case, to a crush of growth-related...

It’s said all too frequently that politics is a sport, and it’s said all the more too frequently, perhaps, that the sport of politics is ind

Incoming Revelation: There’s No Blue Highway ‘Secret Sauce’.   Instead, We Craft Individualized Secret Sauce Recipes for Every One of Our Clients.   Beacon Number 4: In which we pull the curtain back on the specialized expertise of our Senior Vice President, Marketing and Client Relations, Andy Och.   Blue Highway Advisory’s rapidly expanding suite of client services has until now been relatively light in the areas social media and marketing strategies. With Andy Och  coming

Blue Highway Advisory's 2024 UK General Election Briefing for Clients, Partners and Followers Introduction   Hot on the heels, as it were, of the second publishing of the Blue Highway Beacon just last week comes Beacon issue #3, our earlier-previewed and specifically drafted UK General Election briefing. We have no intention of taxing your mailboxes week-in, week-out, but with the election looming Thursday this week, (and with observers on the Western side of Atlantic stockin

Here’s Where We Start to Answer Some Fast-Burning, Inbound Questions. The Blue Highway Beacon is the direct communications channel...

Thank you once more for taking an interest in the mission of Blue Highway Advisory. This is the first dispatch in a series from the...