Farm to Market Music

Tamera H. Bennett, President

Tamera Bennett has been actively involved in the music and entertainment industry for over fifteen years. Prior to becoming an attorney, she worked for numerous music publishers in Nashville in the fields of copyright and royalty management and administration.

Tamera continues to operate her copyright, trademark and entertainment law practice, while serving as the president of Farm to Market Music.

She has always had a passion for the music publishing business and formed Farm to Market Music so that she could merge her legal expertise with her knowledge of music business to create a cost effective vehicle for assisting songwriters and music publishers.

Prepared with an undergraduate degree in Recording Industry Studies and a law degree from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Tamera represents clients throughout Texas in her law practice.

Tamera has been published in the Texas Lawyer on the topic of entertainment contracts with minors and in the Texas Wesleyan Law Review regarding exclusive songwriter agreements. Tamera’s article “2003 - The New Millennium for Copyright” on the topic of termination of transfers under the 1909 and 1976 Copyright Acts has been selected for publication in three resources: (1) the materials for the 2003 & 2004 Legal & Business Aspects of the Film & Music Industries CLE; (2) teaching materials for the UCLA Music Business course; and (3) the September 2003 California Copyright Conference Newsletter.

Tamera is the 2005 -2006 Chair of the Entertainment and Sports Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and she is an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University teaching music publishing. She frequently speaks to groups throughout Texas on entertainment law and intellectual property law issues.

MOST RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

2/4/2005 - Denton County Bar Association “Introduction to Intellectual Property” – Denton, Texas
1/24/2005 - Southern Methodist University – Dallas, Texas
12/8/2004 - GRAMMY in the Schools – Music Business Panel – Dallas, Texas
11/10/2004 - Texas Wesleyan University – Fort Worth, Texas
10/15/2004 - State Bar of Texas 2004 Entertainment Law Institute – Austin, Texas

For more information on Tamera’s law practice, please visit the firm’s site at www.tbennettlaw.com.

Stacy Johnson, Intellectual Property Rights Manager
Stacy Leigh Johnson, IPR Manager, received her bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University in Recording Industry Management with an emphasis in Business Administration.

While attending MTSU, she interned with MCA-Nashville’s marketing department, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers and was employed as a research assistant to MTSU professor Dr. Thomas Hutchison.

Stacy serves as the legal administrator for Bennett Law Office. She has previously worked for music magazine publishers VoxCorp, Inc. (Nashville, TN) and The Church Music Report (Grapevine, TX). Stacy is a member of the Texas Chapter of the Recording Academy.