Title: Streamlining Digital Licensing

Date & Time: 2/22/10 4:00 PM

Location:

Soho House
29-35 Ninth Avenue
New York
NY 10014

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Description

Join us as industry experts examine the issues surrounding the difficult task of licensing large-volume catalogs of music publishing for today’s digital and mobile business models. Our panel will discuss how companies can better navigate the terrain in order to succeed in the ever-changing and challenging digital music landscape.

Panelist
Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
-Stephen Hillenbrandt, SVP Business Affairs and Deputy General Counsel, CBS Radio
-Richard Conlon, VP, New Media & Strategic Development, BMI New York
-Douglas Keogh, EVP/ GM, Roadrunner Records
-Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Business Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency
-John Simson, Executive Director, SoundExchange

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New York, NY- January 14, 2010 – Mechanical licensing and royalty services provider RightsFlow added Michael Kauffman as VP of sales and marketing. Kauffman was most recently led account management, marketing and social media strategy at the HiFive Group in New York. Prior to that he held senior sales and management positions with the Verve Music Group and Windham Hill Records.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Michael to our senior management team,” Patrick Sullivan, RightsFlow’s CEO, said in a statement. “His addition significantly impacts our ability to deliver B2B and B2C campaigns and initiatives that will fuel both company growth and client satisfaction.”

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Four days of CMJ-sponsored panel discussions at NYU’s Kimmel Center last month saw musicians and music-industry professionals hashing out some of the most pressing issues facing the music business today. Not surprisingly, the monetization and piracy of digital music was a subject that came up in all panels, though (also not surprisingly) the issue was never fully resolved. Meeting one week before Google’s announcement of a partnership with MySpace, Lala, Rhapsody, and imeem to launch its OneBox music search engine, the panelists proposed a variety of remedies for the five-billion-dollar loss that the music industry has suffered annually, ostensibly due to pirating, since 2000.

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