Dr.
Geoff Hull
Professor
Copyright Law
Legal Problems in the Recording Industry
Office: Comm 210
Phone: 615.898.5868
Email: ghull@mtsu.edu
Geoffrey Hull is a professor and one of the
founders of the Recording Industry department at Middle Tennessee
State University. He is the author of The Recording Industry,
a book in Allyn and Bacon's mass media series, published in 1998.
Geoff received his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia
Law School (1971), an M.B.A. from Middle Tennessee State University
(1981), and a B.S. in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech
(1968). He taught in Georgia State University's Commercial
Music/Recording program for three years before coming to M.T.S.U.
as the first full-time faculty member in the Recording Industry
program in 1977. He served as chair of the department from
1988-1990. He teaches primarily law courses including copyright
law, legal problems of the recording industry, and media law,
but has also taught a number of music business courses including
music publishing, marketing recordings, record store operations,
and concert promotion. He received MTSU's Outstanding Teacher
Award in 1981 and has been nominated on three other occasions.
Geoff's professional experience is in broadcast
news, as a professional musician, and an attorney. He is a member
of the Tennessee, Georgia, and American bar associations, specializing
in copyright and entertainment law. His publications have appeared
in Popular Music and Society, Mass Comm. Review and The NARAS
Journal. He is a member of the AEJMC (Association of Educators
in Journalism and Mass Communication) law division.
