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SUMMARY:Preparing for The MLC’s Market Share Distributions: What You Need to Know
DESCRIPTION:Join Rick Marshall\, General Counsel for The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC)\, for an insightful presenation detailing the organization’s congressionally mandated plan to begin distributing remaining unclaimed accrued blanket royalties starting in April 2027. Backed by key operational milestones—including over $5 billion in royalties processed and a 94 percent match rate for 2021 usage—Marshall will explain how The MLC will allocate these remaining funds on a monthly pro rata basis using actual distribution data\, while also highlighting tools like the Unclaimed Accrued Royalties Dashboard designed to ensure complete transparency for songwriters\, composers\, and publishers. \n \nRick Marshall is General Counsel at The MLC\, where he leads The MLC’s in-house legal team and coordinates the organizations internal and external legal matters. Before joining The MLC\, he was a senior member of Warner Music Group’s recorded music catalog legal affairs team and represented WMG on the recording industry’s union contract negotiating committee and in regulatory policy related initiatives. Rick also served for several years as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of the General Counsel at the United States Copyright Office\, where he worked on music-related initiatives that paved the way for the passing of the Music Modernization Act in 2018. Before entering the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law space\, Rick served as Senior Staff Attorney to the Chief Judge at Florida’s First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee\, Florida. He holds a Legal Masters degree in Intellectual Property Law from The George Washington University Law School and has been recognized by Billboard as a Top Music Lawyer and included in Variety’s list of Music Legal Elite. \n\n****This is a private event for Society members and their registered guests.  If you are interested in becoming a member of the Copyright Society of the South\, or if you are an active member and did not receive your email invitation\,  contact us at copyrightsocietyofthesouth@gmail.com .***
URL:https://copyrightsocietyofthesouth.com/event/preparing-for-the-mlcs-market-share-distributions-what-you-need-to-know/
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SUMMARY:What Litigators Wish Publishers Knew (Part II)
DESCRIPTION:Megan Pekar and Tim Warnock from Loeb & Loeb LLP will discuss ethical issues facing entertainment lawyers in their roles as advisors\, advocates\, negotiators and evaluators.  The discussion will consider cases decided by courts this year involving issues such as the termination of copyright grants\, determining co-authorship of sound recordings\, proving secondary liability for copyright infringement and determining substantial similarity in infringement cases. \n \nTim Warnock is a seasoned litigator\, focusing his practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation in federal and state courts. He has extensive jury and non-jury trial experience in corporate and business litigation\, entertainment litigation\, intellectual property litigation\, construction litigation and general commercial litigation. Additionally\, he is listed as a Rule 31 mediator approved to conduct court-ordered mediations by the Alternative Dispute Commission established by the Tennessee Supreme Court.  Mr. Warnock is Office Administrative Partner for Loeb & Loeb\, Nashville \n  \n  \nMegan Pekar is Associate Attorney at Loeb & Loeb.  Megan’s practice focuses on the representation of songwriters in music catalog sales\, music publishing and administration matters\, and negotiating songwriter representation and other entertainment-related agreements. Megan’s work involving music catalogs involves providing catered advice on valuations\, marketing\, sales\, and due diligence\, as well as performance money comparisons\, contract summaries\, and royalty spreadsheet summaries. She also has experience handling a variety of audits\, including royalty audits for artists\, producers and songwriters and publisher desktop and full audits. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis is a private event for Society members and their registered guests.  If you are interested in becoming a member of the Copyright Society of the South\, or if you are an active member and did not receive your email invitation\,  contact us at copyrightsocietyofthesouth@gmail.com .
URL:https://copyrightsocietyofthesouth.com/event/navigating-the-line-current-ethical-dilemmas-and-legal-updates-for-2026/
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SUMMARY:The Annual Copyright Review with Stan Soocher
DESCRIPTION:Stan Soocher is an award-winning journalist and entertainment attorney\, as well as the long-time Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment Law & Finance\, an ALM publication. In addition\, Stan is Professor Emeritus of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado Denver\, where he served as a Music Department Chair. \nStan has authored the books Baby You’re a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun & Profit and They Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court. Stan wrote the chapter “Twenty-First-Century Patronage: The Road to Billy Joel’s Madison Square Garden Concert Residency” in the 2020 book We Didn’t Start the Fire: Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies \, edited by Joshua S. Duchan and Ryan Raul Bañagale/Lexington Books. Billy Joel wrote the book’s Foreword. \nStan has given speeches on entertainment law and related industry issues to bar associations and/or entertainment industry conferences in Los Angeles\, Nashville\, New York\, Austin\, Washington\, D.C.\, the United Kingdom\, Germany\, Las Vegas\, Miami\, Oregon\, Minnesota\, Virginia\, Washington State\, Orlando\, Atlanta\, Boston\, New Orleans\, North Carolina\, New Jersey and Colorado\, among other locations. \nStan is a recipient of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment & Sports Law Section’s “Texas Star Award.” The award is given to an individual “who has made a major and noteworthy contribution to the practice of entertainment law.” Also during his career\, Stan has received ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in music journalism\, including for his music law articles in Rolling Stone\, The National Law Journal and Musician Magazine. \nAmong the many media outlets who have interviewed Stan about entertainment industry issues are the Associated Press\, National Public Radio\, CNN\, Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, New York Daily News\, The New York Post\, Miami Herald\, Washington Post\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Chicago Tribune\, Denver Post\, Salt Lake Tribune\, Entertainment Weekly\, The Wall Street Journal\, Variety\, London Times and BBC-TV. \nFor many years\, Stan covered the federal appeals courts in a weekly section for The National Law Journal. Early in his career\, he worked as a reporter and associate editor for the rock music magazine Circus. \nIn recent years\, Stan’s articles also have been published in such media outlets as the cover of the American Bar Association Journal\, and in Law.com\, The New York Law Journal\, Daily Report (Atlanta)\, American Lawyer\, The Recorder (California)\, Intellectual Property Strategist\, Daily Business Review (Florida)\, Legal Week (UK)\, Connecticut Law Tribune and Inside Counsel. \nStan holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Florida and a J.D. from New York Law School. He is also a drummer. \n\nThis is a private event for Society members and their registered guests.  If you are interested in becoming a member of the Copyright Society of the South\, or if you are an active member and did not receive your email invitation\,  contact us at copyrightsocietyofthesouth@gmail.com .
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