Title: Digital Distribution- Getting Paid
Location: Nashville, TN
When: Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Time: 4:00 – 5:00
Where: ASCAP – First Floor Conference Room
Moderator: John Barker
Panelist: Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
Maurice Russel, VP Licensing, Collections & Business Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency

Panelist Bios

Patrick Sullivan is a leading expert in the field of intellectual property and copyright management for both physical and digital media and is the cofounder, President and CEO of RightsFlow. He has been at the forefront of many pivotal industry issues that have helped define and shape the current market for music in a digital era. Patrick’s extensive experience in industry negotiations, licensing and royalty payments, digital content management and distribution as well as legislative and legal affairs makes him a frequent lecturer at corporations, universities, and conferences around the world about intellectual property and copyright.  He has been a past presenter at the 2009 World Copyright Summit, NARM, AIMP, Leadership Music Digital Summit, Popkomm, and Digital Music Forum East and West.

Maurice A. Russell is the Vice President of Licensing, Collections and Business Affairs for the Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA).  In this role, Russell oversees the Licensing and Collections Departments, which together work with licensees such as record labels and digital music services to provide fast and accurate licensing and the collection of royalties on behalf of HFA’s over 37,000 affiliate publishers.  At the close of 2008, HFA administered more than 16.7 million licenses and almost 2.3 millions songs.  As part of the Business Affairs team, he works closely with Business Development to implement new licensing opportunities, such as those for ringtones, lyrics and tablature.  He reports directly to Gary Churgin, HFA’s President and CEO.

Cocktail Reception Sponsored by RightsFlow

Immediately following the panel discussion, Rightsflow is sponsoring a reception until 6 pm.  Please make plans to join us and to speak further with Maurice, Patrick and your fellow Copyright Society members.