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Update - Events: Digital Music Distribution Panel

The Grammy Foundation® and The Entertainment Law Initiative® present Digital Music Distribution - The Paradigm Shift on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, from 7PM to 9PM.

BEAT-Law's Tony Berman will be a featured panelist, along with Jonathan Earp, VP of Legal Affairs, IODA; Sean Leonard, Digital Strategist; and David Hirshland, President, Bug Music.  Tony will be speaking about the subscription services business model as well as the issues of “disintermediation,” as that term is commonly understood by the digital music industry.

The purpose of this legal seminar is to educate and update the emerging trends of music industry distribution through "brick and mortar" stores to online digital music distribution with digital downloading technology such as Emusic.com, Napster, iTunes, and IODA.

Topics will include use of widgets, iTunes, blogging, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and more.

Gary Culpepper, Esq., co-founder and former Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs Emusic, will moderate the seminar, with opening remarks by Scott Goldman, Vice President, The GRAMMY Foundation. It will be held at The NEW offices of The Recording Academy, 3030 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA.

 

 

UPDATE - Events: Music Business Seminar

California Lawyers for the Arts is holding its annual Music Business Seminar on Saturday, November 15, 2008, from 9am - 5:30pm.

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BEAT-Law's Tony Berman will be the co-keynote speaker, along with lawyer and agent Elliot Cahn, former guitarist from Sha-Na-Na. Tony will be speaking about new opportunities for making money in the changing music industry.

BEAT-Law's Mark Pearson will be participating in the panel discussion, "The Online Connection," where he will talk about social networking, viral marketing, and internet resources. This will include the topics of licensing issues, iTunes, blogging, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and more.

Other panels will held on "The New Recording Industry," "It's All About the Money," and "The Producer Panel."

The seminar is designed for musicians, songwriters, producers, dj's, attorneys and related professionals.  It will be held at the  Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, located at 6601 Shellmound Street in Emeryville, CA.

For information on registration, check their website.

Hope to see you there!

Events: Bandwidth Conference

The Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference is taking place August 14 & 15 at the University Club in Nob Hill. 

BEAT-Law's Tony Berman will be leading the discussion about digital legal issues @ 1 pm in the Library.

Other featured speakers include Susan Bonds and Alex Lieu, President/CEO and Chief Creative Officer of 42 Entertainment, Jonathan Poneman, co-founder of Sub Pop Records, and Alexandra Patsavas, founder of Chop Shop Music. 

From their website:

Bandwidth features conversations with movers and shakers, as well as a chance to interact with others in an intimate environment - the right people in the right space in numbers that make it easy to connect.

Topics focus on marketing, fan behavior, trends and future forecasts, and an examination of the ways people discover, purchase, interact with, and are exposed to music.

Hope to see you there!

Events: SanFran MusicTech Summit

The SanFran Music Tech Summit is just around the bend - Thursday, May 8th @ the Hotel Kabuki in Japantown. 

BEAT-Law's Howie Cockrill will be on the "Legal Issues in Searching, Linking and Blogging" panel @ 9:20 am, moderated by Joe Gratz of Keker and Van Nest LLP. 

The other panelists are Andrew Bridges (Winston & Strawn LLP), Mark Palermo (ASCAP, Dir. of Special Projects), and John Potter (DiMA, Exec. Dir.).

From the SFMT website:

"The SanFran MusicTech Summit will bring together digital thought leaders from the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as from all around the country, to the region which currently leads the way in innovating (both socially, and technologically) new ways of interacting with both music, and musicians.

We will be working long term to help enable a sustainable, ongoing, Northern California based music and related technology market."

Hope to see you there!

Events: NAB Show

Once again digital media enthusiasts and prognosticators are set to descend on Las Vegas for the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show.

The conference lasts from April 11th to April 17th. 

I will be giving 2 fascinating & timely presentations.  If you are at the conference, definitely check them out or at least stop by and say hello:

• "Keep It Legal: Safety and Legal Issues for Production."  Apr. 12, 2008.  3:30 pm - 4:45 pm.  Las Vegas Convention Center N264.  
• "Contracts and Copyrights."  Apr. 13, 2008.  9:00 am - 10:15 am.  Las Vegas Convention Center N264.

Hope to see you there!

 

Events: REMIXER AUSTIN @ SXSW

If you're heading to Austin's SXSW music festival, by now you are probably sifting through reams of info about parties, panels, bands and barbecue. 

You may even be trying to concoct something vaguely resembling a schedule. 

Isn’t it all just ex-austin?!

BEAT-Law's "REMIXER" is here to save the day (or at least the early afternoon).

REMIXER AUSTIN is BEAT-Law's relaxing gathering in Austin for industry folks to hang out, have a drink (or two) and swap stories from the worlds of entertainment, technology, business and law.  

REMIXER AUSTIN details:

• Date:   Saturday, Mar. 15th
• Time:  12:00 noon - ???
• Place:  Bourbon Rocks - 508 E. 6th St.
• Note:   For best socializing - arrive by noon
• RSVP:  Click here.  Type "REMIXER" in the same box as your name.

Events: SFxSxSW

As the drone and buzz around Austin's South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival grows ever louder, we wanted to let you know about one festival showcase we at BEAT-Law are particularly excited about. 

So excited, in fact, that we joined on as sponsors!

Events: Filmmaker's Resource Sharing Group

For any current or future filmmakers out there, the Filmmaker's Resource Sharing Group is a potluck event you may be interested in. 

• WHEN:   Thursday, March 6th - 7 pm to 10 pm
• WHERE:  Metrospace Theater - 379 Highland Avenue, SF