Music Publishing Basics // Impact of Digital Technology and the Development of Digital Media // Performing Rights Organizations
(Selections from Legal and Business Aspects of Music, Film and Interactive Entertainment, recorded October 2004)
MCLE #: 000072858 (11/25/2004 — 10/31/2005)
MCLE hours: 3.25 (includes .5 hr ethics)
Registration Price: $85
Music Publishing Basics (1 hr / .25 hr ethics)
Music publishing is a major and growing source of revenue to
writers and publishers. Speakers will review terms of a typical
songwriter/publisher agreement, copyright law basics,
co-publisher agreements and related negotiable points.
Steve Winogradsky, North Hollywood, CA
The Winogradsky Company
Tamera Bennett, Lewisville, TX
Bennett Law Office
Impact of Digital Technology and the Development of Digital Media (1 hr.)
Brief introduction to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and
a discussion about the current status of performance,
synchronization, and mechanical royalties resulting from
recent legislation and new media.
ModeratorStan Soocher, Denver, CO
Editor-in-Chief, "Entertainment Law & Finance"
PanelistsJeffrey Brabec, Los Angeles, CA
Chrysalis Music Group
Neeta Ragoowansi, Washington, DC
Sound Exchange
Performing Rights Organizations (1.25 hrs / .25 hr ethics)
Representatives from the three performing rights organizations
explain their companies' role in the industry, sources of
performance revenue for writers and publishers, and new
opportunities resulting from performance of music on the
internet and mobile devices.
ModeratorSteve Winogradsky, North Hollywood, CA
The Winogradsky Company
PanelistsDennis Lord, Nashville, TN
SESAC
Alison Smith, New York, NY
BMI