Title: AIMP Panels
Location: New York, NY
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Description: Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)

Summary:

This panel will discuss how digital distributors have stepped into the mechanical licensing role ensuring that publishers and songwriters get paid for online music distributions. Typical distributors have not taken on this responsibility in the physical world, but with the digitalization of music the business practice has changed. We will explore how services such as iTunes don’t pay publishers directly and pass-through mechanical royalties to labels and distributors with no accountability back to publishers and songwriters. Panelists will discuss how their companies have the ability to license, account and pay publishers through the services they offer.

Other Panelists:

Helene Blue, Helene Blue Musique Ltd. (Moderator)
Erik Gilbert,VP of Content, IODA
Maurice Russell VP, Licensing, Collection & Business Affairs, HFA
Stanley Schneider, Esq, Attorney
Date: 2009-09-16