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CLE: Legal Issues in the Music Industry

For attorney registrants, South By Southwest, in conjunction with the Lommen Abdo Law Firm and the Entertainment Law Initiative of the Grammy Foundation®, is offering an 8-hour continuing legal education program at no additional cost. The schedule is as follows:

CLE Program Director: Nels Jacobson
CLE Panels Coordinator: Ken Abdo

Friday March 16 (Part One)

12:00 NOON-12:30 PM
Attorney Sign-In

12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Music Litigation Update
Stan Soocher (moderator), Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
David Given, Phillips, Erlewine & Given, San Francisco, CA
Neville Johnson, Johnson & Rishwain, Beverly Hills, CA

1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Advocacy and Legislation
(NARAS Entertainment Law Initiative supported panel)
Jay Rosenthal (moderator), Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, Washington, DC
Jacqueline Charlesworth, Senior VP & General Counsel, National Music Publishers' Association, New York, NY
Bob Donnelly, New York, NY
Bobby Rosenbloum, Greenberg Traurig, Atlanta, GA

* Break from 2:30 PM-3:00 PM *

3:00 PM-4:00 PM
What's Next? Predicting the Future of Digital Music
David Lessoff (moderator), Senior Director, Business Affairs, Capitol Records, Hollywood, CA
Chris Castle, Los Angeles, CA
David Ring, Senior VP Business Affairs & Business Development, Universal Music Group, eLabs, Santa Monica, CA

4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Music Law Practice: Past, Present & Future
(NARAS Entertainment Law Initiative supported panel)
Ken Abdo (moderator), Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg, Minneapolis, MN
John Frankenheimer, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles, CA
Joel Katz, Greenberg Traurig, Atlanta, GA

Saturday March 17 (Part Two)

11:00 AM-11:30 AM
Attorney Sign-In

11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Recording Deals: Master Plans
Jeff Biederman (moderator), Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Los Angeles, CA
Virginie Parant, Artist Law Group, Burbank, CA
Joe Serling, Serling Rooks & Ferrara, New York, NY

12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Touring: On the Road Again
Peter Strand (moderator), Holland & Knight, Chicago, IL
Todd Cooper, Greenberg Traurig, Santa Monica CA
Janine Small, Carroll, Guido & Groffman, New York, NY

* Break from 1:30 PM-2:00 PM *

2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Publishing: The Top 25 Real Life Questions
Ed Pierson (moderator), General Counsel and Executive VP, Warner/Chappell Music, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Bezilla, Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg, Minneapolis, MN
David Hirshland, President, Bug Music, Los Angeles, CA

3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Licensing: Show Me the Money. No, Really - Show Me the Money!
Cydney Tune (moderator), Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, San Francisco, CA
Lynn Morrow, Adams and Reese / Stokes Bartholomew, Nashville, TN
Henry Root, Santa Monica, CA