Copyright Society of the South

Panel: What the State of Music Tech Says About the State of Our Industry
2016-01-27 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | ASCAP, 2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
TOPIC: WHAT THE STATE OF MUSIC TECH SAYS ABOUT THE STATE OF OUR INDUSTRY.
Where it’s going, and where it’s not.
Where Nashville is embracing and resisting.
Hear about the latest trends, issues, challenges and opportunities including the ever-evolving streaming landscape, new channels of marketing and distributing music, metadata standards and new equalizing forces like Blockchain.

MODERATOR: Shawn Yeager, Backporch Group, Partner

PANEL: John Pisciotta, LoudLab, Founder
Wayne Leeloy, G7 Entertainment Marketing, Head of Brand Partnerships & Digital Strategy
Heather McBee, The Entreprenural Center, VP Accelerator Programming

Shawn Yeager – Moderator
Back Porch Group
Partner
Shawn is a partner with music tech venture-builder, Back Porch Group and co-founder of Endorsee. At BPG, Shawn leads customer and business development for their portfolio companies and consults to startup and enterprise clients on business model design, product strategy, customer acquisition and growth.
Previously, Shawn founded and led a boutique management consulting firm whose clients ranged from indie game developers to multi-billion dollar software companies. As a business development executive for several startup and growth-stage tech companies, including Exodus Communications, Platform Computing and Varicent Software, Shawn produced market-shaping partnerships, international expansion, hundred-million dollar revenue streams and recognition from industry luminary Bill Gates.
At Microsoft, his work on their first browser team added over a million new users, and his contributions in e-commerce resulted in pioneering partnerships and the acquisition of dozens of Fortune 500 customers. Early in his career, Shawn led strategy and development for one of the earliest online music retailers, MusicDirect.
Shawn is a mentor for and advisor to Project Music, the country’s first music tech accelerator, a mentor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center and advisor to numerous startups in the US and Canada.

John Pisciotta
LoudLab
Managing Partner

Founder of LoudLab, a venture studio that accelerates high potential, scalable companies in the media and entertainment technology space. John founded MusicSynk, LLC which offers a secure online platform that quickly facilitates music synchronization licenses for the film, television, advertising and video gaming markets. It serves both the professionals who pay to license music and the top-tier artists who own the copyrights to the music. His career spans three decades in the music industry.

Wayne Leeloy
G7 Entertainment Marketing
Head of Brand Partnerships & Digital Strategy

Living at the intersection of brands, music and technology, Wayne Leeloy is the Head of Brand Partnerships and Digital Strategy for G7 Entertainment Marketing, the entertainment vertical for project:worldwide. In this role, he leads the charge on entertainment strategies and new business development, providing high-touch client services and relationship management and integrated digital expertise, activation, analysis and actionable data for the full client roster. Prior to joining G7, Leeloy spent a few years leading digital strategy and launching the successful Strategic Marketing & Partnerships division for Warner Music Nashville.
Before joining the label, he ran business development, account management, educational initiatives and community outreach for Topspin Media, the premiere direct-to-fan technology platform in the United States and established Ticketmaster’s Music Services division to handle all the A-List tour ticketing offers, fan club pre sales and VIP activation in the Country, Christian and Americana/Roots music space.

Mike Fabio
Director of Digital Marketing
New West Records

Director of Digital Marketing at New West Records, overseeing all things online: social, web, email, advertising, etc.

Co-founder of Bandposters, a tool for touring artists to design, print, and ship posters to every gig on a tour in 90 seconds or less

Partner at Back Porch Group, a venture-building and consulting firm creating a better entertainment industry one idea, product and company at a time. BPG has a portfolio of venture-backed and bootstrapped entertainment technology startups it has incubated, and helps similar companies grow their businesses.

Founder of Tiny Jetpack, a boutique social media marketing firm focused on fan relationships and the music business (Clients: PledgeMusic, Artist Growth, Lyric Financial, Anderson East, Nettwerk Music Group, Maker Studios)

Community Director at Warner Bros. Records overseeing online activity for every WBR artist, including social properties, websites, and more. (Artists: Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Eric Clapton, Avenged Sevenfold, Iron & Wine, The Black Keys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jason Derulo, Disturbed, Gary Clark Jr., The Flaming Lips, Green Day, many more)

Heather McBee
Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC)
Vice President of Accelerator Programming

Heather 25 years of experience in marketing, sales and operations in the music and radio industries. McBee is focused on growing the Center’s year-round focus on the continued support of innovation within the music industry, bringing Project Music from a 14-week accelerator program to a 12-month vertical at the EC. In her new role, she is charged with expanding the EC’s accelerator programming and support to other industries industries key to the Nashville economy such as (book) publishing. She continues to serve as an active mentor to entrepreneurs and management teams that participate in the Center’s accelerators.
As the first intern at BNA Entertainment, McBee grew through the ranks with the now-Sony Nashville organization to ultimately become VP of Marketing & Web
Initiatives. During her tenure, she built the Digital Business team within the organization resulting in the label paving the way for Nashville charge in developing the digital music space.
Through 2014, McBee served as Operations Director for Cumulus Media’s America’s Morning Show hosted by Blair Garner. In her role, she helped launch the nationally syndicated program, grow the enterprise and acted as the Show’s liaison for record labels and affiliates. Heather also manages her own music marketing and business development company, Bee Strategic, Inc.

Updated January 20, 2016

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Stan Soocher
2015-12-03 11:30 - 13:00 | ASCAP, 2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
TOPIC: 2015, Year In Review
SPEAKER: Stan Soocher, Associate Professor of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado’s Denver Campus

Stan Soocher is the long-time Editor-in-Chief of the monthly Entertainment Law & Finance and an entertainment attorney. Stan is also an Associate Professor of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado’s Denver Campus, where he served for three years as Music Department Chair. Stan’s new book is Baby You’re a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun & Profit (ForeEdge/University Press of New England). He previously authored the investigative book They Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court.

Stan 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, Las Vegas, Miami, Oregon, Minneapolis, Virginia, Washington State, Orlando, Atlanta, Boston, New Orleans, North Carolina, New Jersey and Colorado, among other locations.

In 2014, Stan received 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. For many years, Stan covered the federal appeals courts in a weekly section for The National Law Journal.
Among 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.

Jim Griffin
2015-11-12 11:25 - 13:00 | ASCAP, 2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
TOPIC: Rights Enumerated, Rights Disrespected.
Absent a publicly accessible, comprehensive database for music, rights we cherish and upon which we depend are disrespected and forgotten.
SPEAKER: Jim Griffin
Jim Griffin is an expert media technologist, well-schooled and experienced in the ways of digital media and its monetization, especially music and the text, graphics and video that accompany it. Founder, moderator of the Pho list, for 15 years amongst the best global communities for digital music and media. Writer for magazines and scholarly journals, occasional keynote speaker and expert witness.

David Israelite
2015-11-04 11:30 - 13:00 | ASCAP, 2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
TOPIC: A look at the division of income among writers, publishers, labels and artists at Spotify, Pandora and SiriusXM, plus current legislative updates.
SPEAKER: David Israelite
David Mark Israelite is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Music Publishers’ Association. Founded in 1917, The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is the premiere trade association representing American music publishers and their songwriter partners. The NMPA’s mandate is to protect and advance the interests of music publishers and their songwriter partners in matters relating to the domestic and global protection of music copyrights. Music publishers control the copyrights for the underlying compositions of songs on behalf of the songwriters they represent. The Harry Fox Agency, Inc., the leading U.S. mechanical rights organization, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NMPA.
From 2001 through early 2005 Israelite served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Attorney General of the United States. In this capacity he helped manage the United States Department of Justice’s 112,000 employees and $22 billion annual budget. In addition to his general management responsibilities, Israelite served as the Attorney General’s personal advisor on all legal, strategic and public affairs issues. In March of 2004, the Attorney General appointed Israelite Chairman of the Department’s Task Force on Intellectual Property. As Chairman Israelite lead a team of high-ranking officials in examining all aspects of how the Department of Justice handled intellectual property issues and implemented proposals developed by the Task Force.
Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Israelite served as the Director of Political and Governmental Affairs for the Republican National Committee. In that role he was the senior advisor to the Chairman of the National Republican Party, and was responsible for the Republican Party’s Campaign Operations, Government Affairs, Research, and Presidential Liaison Divisions.
From 1997 through 1998, Israelite served as Missouri Senator Kit Bond’s Administrative Assistant, making him the youngest AA in the United States Senate. Israelite also served as Campaign Manager for Senator Bond’s successful 1998 re-election campaign.
From 1994 through 1997, Israelite practiced law in the Commercial Litigation Department at the firm of Bryan Cave, LLP in Kansas City, Missouri. Israelite earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri in 1994 and received a B.A. in a double major of Political Science and Communications from William Jewell College in 1990. While in college, Israelite was named Top Speaker by the National Cross Examination Debate Association, recognizing him as the nation’s top collegiate debater.

Michael Harrington
2015-04-23 11:00 - 13:00 | BMI, 10 Music Square East, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Stan Soocher, Year in Review
2014-12-04 11:30 - 13:00 | ASCAP, 2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

The Third in our Songwriter Series with a special performance by Jim Peterick
2014-11-19 17:00 - 19:00 | The First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Avenue South, Nashville
The Copyright Society of The South in conjunction with leadership Music invites you to a special program on Wednesday, November 19th, 2014.

Jacqueline Charlesworth, General Counsel of the US Copyright Office and Associate Register of Copyrights
2014-10-16 11:30 - 13:00 | ASCAP, 2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Kevin Grosch, CEO of Made in Network
2014-09-17 11:30 - 13:00 | BMI, 10 Music Square East, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Current Copyright Review Update with Sandra Aistars, CEO of Copyright Alliance
2014-05-20 11:30 - 13:30 | ASCAP, 2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Ascap’s Connie Bradley Board Room
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:30am – 1:30pm

Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO - RIAA
2013-09-19 12:30 - 14:00 | BMI, 10 Music Square East, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

One on One with David Israelite - NMPA
2013-09-17 16:00 - 18:00 | BMI, 10 Music Square East, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
President & CEO of National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA)
Founded in 1917, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is the trade association representing 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.

Barry Massarsky: Economic Strategizing in 2013
2013-04-04 11:30 - 13:00 | BMI, 10 Music Square East, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States

Who Should License Your Music For Digital?
2013-03-11 11:30 - 13:00 | TN
Moderator:
Marc Driskill, Executive VP/GM, Sea Gayle Music
Panelists:
Randy Grimmett, Exec. VP of Membership
Ree Guyer Buchanan, President/Owner, Wrensong Publishing
Duff Berschback, Sen. Director / Business Affairs

An Evening With Guy Clark and Friends
2013-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | TN

January 2013 Luncheon
2013-01-29 11:30 - 13:00 | TN
TOPIC
All is Fair (Use) In Love and Copyright

SPEAKER
Stephen Zralek: Bone, McAllester, Norton
Copyright law gives exclusive rights to authors of original works, but the Fair Use doctrine limits those rights. Stephen Zralek looks at several close cases and lets audience members judge for themselves as to whether the infringement should be permitted under the Fair Use defense. The presentation is interactive, comparing side-by-side examples of original works with later works where the original author claims infringement. Examples include a comparison of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, and The Wind Done Gone by Nashville author Alice Randall; a comparison of the original Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” song and 2 Live Crew’s version of it; and a comparison of more recent works created by contemporary photographer Patrick Cariou and appropriation artist Richard Prince. We’ll explore recent decisions from within the Sixth Circuit and around the country, examining the four factors that courts examine when determining fair use.
Stephen Zralek is an artist at heart and, despite being a lawyer, finds himself regularly manipulated by his two children. He practices at Bone McAllester Norton where he is a Member of the Firm. He is a litigator focused IP, entertainment, and business disputes. He previously served as Chair of the Copyright Litigation Committee of the ABA’s IP Law Section, and is a regular author and speaker on IP legal issues and social media. Stephen is on the board of Conexion Americas, and is the co-founder of WaterCooler, a monthly networking event that highlights Nashville’s cultural richness. He tweets at @StephenZralek, and blogs at www.TheExpressive.com.

December 2012 Luncheon
2012-12-04 11:30 - 13:00 | TN
TOPIC
Copyright Law: 2012 In Review

SPEAKER
Stan Soocher, Esq.

Stan Soocher is the long-time Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment Law & Finance. He is alsoa tenured Associate Professor of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado’s Denver Campus, as well as an entertainment attorney and award-winning journalist. In addition to the Copyright Society of the South, Stan has given speeches on entertainment law and related industry issues to bar associations and/orentertainment industry conferences and seminars in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta, North Carolina, New Orleans, Oregon, Boston, Virginia, Washington State and Colorado, among other locations. Stan recently taught the course “American Music Goes to Court” at the International College of Beijing in China, where his book They Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court has been published in a Chinese translation edition.
Results of the election for the Board of Directors will be announced at this meeting. If you haven’t voted, please do so!
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