Danielle Aguirre, Executive Vice President & General Counsel of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), will present information regarding the Phonorecords II Remand, updates since the July 1 response to the CRB, and the Remand’s potential impacts to the copyright landscape.

About Danielle Aguirre

Danielle oversees all of NMPA’s legal, business and policy objectives.  Her role is to protect and enforce the copyrights and intellectual property interests of songwriters and music publishers.  Ms. Aguirre has aggressively fought digital piracy and infringement litigating against digital platforms, and she works with the largest companies, digital services and record labels to ensure that publishers and songwriters are being fairly compensated for the use of their songs. 
 
Ms. Aguirre was integrally involved in the negotiation, drafting and passage of the Music Modernization Act, legislation that amended U.S. Copyright law and led to the creation of a new licensing company, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC).  After co-leading a team that developed the MLC, she currently serves as the statutorily designated non-voting publisher representative on the MLC board.  In 2018, Billboard honored her as the Women in Music Co-Executive of the Year for her work on the MMA and MLC. 
 
Prior to joining NMPA, Ms. Aguirre was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP. She received her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her BA from Georgetown University.

About the NMPA (www.nmpa.org)

Founded in 1917, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is the trade association representing all American music publishers and their songwriting partners. The NMPA’s mandate is to protect and advance the interests of music publishers and songwriters in matters relating to the domestic and global protection of music copyrights. 

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