Copyright: 2017 in Review with Stan Soocher

Stan Soocher is the long-time Editor-in-Chief ofEntertainment Law & Finance and a tenured Associate Professor of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado’s Denver Campus, where he has served as Music Department Chair. In addition, Stan is an entertainment attorney and a recipient of the State Bar of Texas “Texas Star Award” for “a major and noteworthy contribution to the practice of entertainment law.” He is also a multi-recipient of ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for Excellence in Music Journalism, as well as author of the books Baby You’re a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun & Profit andThey Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court.

 2017 is Stan’s 21^st consecutive year presenting “Copyright Year in Review” to the Copyright Society of the South.

 Additionally, Stan has presented solo speeches and/or participated on panels on entertainment law and industry developments, at among many other venues: the American Bar Association, N.Y. State Bar Association, Nashville Bar Association, South-By-Southwest Music Conference, Dallas Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar, D.C. Bar, Colorado Bar Association, Minnesota State Bar, Liverpool Sound City Conference, Georgia Bar, New Jersey Bar, Connecticut Bar, Florida Bar, California Lawyers for the Arts, Southern University Law Center, Harvard Law School, Vanderbilt University School of Law, New York University Law School, Indiana University School of Law, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Fordham University School of Law, New York Women in Film and Television, Dartmouth Lawyers Association, National Music Publishers Association, the Seattle Museum of Pop Culture, the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association, and the College Music Society.