A long standing Weerai Music client - Missing Link's roster includes songwriters, producers and artists who have written/produced for many of the industries leading artists.

Catalog Acquistion:

Weerai Music Company has consulted and acquired administration and publishing deals on Missing Link Music's behalf for several commercially active song catalogs. From consulting closely with the songwriters and publishers to designing the nature of the deal - Weerai Music Company has brought value to Missing Link and their clients.

Bargyle Music ("Rubberneckin'" by Elvis Presley)

Harry Whitaker Publishing ("We Live In Brooklyn" & "The Boogie Back" by Roy Ayers, "F*** Da Police" by NWA among many more)

Byrd's Nest Publishing ("Licking Stick" by James Brown among many others)

474 Music ("Stay With Me" by Al Green among many others)

Dango Music ("Take You Out" by Luther Vandross among many others)

Revelax Music ("Anniversary" by Tony Toni Tone among many others)

Recording artists Melba Moore, Stephanie McKay, Keith Murray, Christion, and Afrika Bambaataa

Copyright Infringment Settlements and Publishing Dispute Resolution:

Weerai Music has over its time with Missing Link Music song catalogs, identified causes of action for copyright infringement, advised the original publishers, worked with attorneys on the successful negotiation and settlement of claims on behalf of over fifteen writers.

Sub-publishing infracstructure:

Weerai Music Company has consulted Missing Link Music and set up and maintained over fourteen different worldwide sub-publishing deals with companies such as Fuji-Pacific (SE Asia/Japan), AMV Talpas (Germany/Netherlands), Fable Music (Australia), David Gresham (South Africa), French Fried Music (France), Cafe Concerto (Italy), Clipper's Music (Spain/Portual/South & Central America), IK Media (Russia) and Media Men (Israel).

Database design, implementation and process management:

Through designing a customized database to handle copyright, licensing, writer, publisher and royalty information - Weerai Music has added significant value to Missing Link Music's internal infrastructure. While providing a long term alternative to Counterpoint and Royalty Calc's systems - Weerai Music has enabled an independent administrator to handle data, render statements and calcuate royalties in the same manner that a major music publisher can.

Weerai Music has consulted on the development of Common Works Registrations (CWR) standards which has allowed Missing Link Music to segue from administration into music publishing.

Middlepoet is the former Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ.

He is a two time recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation and a semi-finalist for a UCLA/Pen Fellowship. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two dogs.

Published Work:

Poetry:

-“Classified”, “Mathematics”, “Skid Row Streets” Unhoused Voices: Granting Change for the Homeless, Sabella Press, August 2009

-“I’ll be your Huckleberry”, “Hollywood Interview” CommonLine, July 2009

-“Have you seen my girl”, “Things that are getting on my nerves” Afterword Magazine, July 2009

-“Motion in music” Halving a baby, December 2006

-“Hollywood” Joey Magazine, September 2006

-“Trouble in her whisper”, “Summer evening”, “Elegance”, “Last night” Bare Back Magazine
2006

-“Meta-Middle love poem” thewrittenvoice.com, March 2006

-“Mythic She” Bare Back Magazine, December 2005

-“Refrain” Humdinger Zine, November 2005

-“Downtown at night” The Los Angeles Journal, October 2005

-“Six Wishes” The Hudson Current, March 2005

-“Burrowing through morning”, “City streets” Take Magazine, April 2004

-“Window”, “New Jersey Transit”, Melted Pot”, “For those who have moved on” The Waterbug
Hotel Digest 2004

-“Gossip” Brew Ha Ha Anthology, 2003

-“Doing Things” Collected Works of Children Edited by Bonnie Kaplan and Ed Gordon, 1981

Fiction:

-“Commands” thewrittenvoice.com, April 2006

-“Drugs and the corner (Mid-Wilshire at night)” Bruise Magazine, March 2006

Audio:

-“Newsflash”, “I’m Tired”, “A Dear John Letter to Hip-Hop” 20 Dissidents audio cd Winter, 2007