Events

Are you an independent songwriter? This webinar hosted by The MLC “will provide step-by-step instructions on how you can Connect to Collect!” Topics that will be covered include: How to Sign Up with The MLC, Collecting All of Your U.S. Digital Mechanical Royalties, How The MLC Supports Songwriters, and more. Registration is now closed.

This World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) webinar “will feature multi-territorial licensing practices for musical works for digital music services, based on the experience of SACEM, a French Collective Management Organization (CMO) operating in the music field.” Speakers include Caroline Champarnaud, Director of International, Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM); and Habib Achour, […]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is hosting a webinar to present an overview of WIPO’s general activities, as well as to share information about Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights. Additional information and registration are available here.

The Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) and the California Copyright Conference (CCC) present their sixth Music Industry Toolbox—"a unique event created for music publishers, record companies, production music libraries/producers, managers, attorneys, and artists, but should be of interest to all music industry professionals.” The event “features leading firms in music management software and services […]

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) is hosting session one of its IP for the People series, which will focus on offering attendees an explanation of what intellectual property rights are; real-world examples of how they come up in your business ideas and creative processes; an interview with an author who will share how […]

Times: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET The U.S. Copyright Office will hold two closing plenary sessions to conclude its Technical Measures Consultations. The meetings will be on Tuesday, October 4 and will offer a discussion of “preliminary findings and emerging themes." Both of the sessions are open to the […]

When music is used on digital music services, more than one type of royalty is generated and paid to creators. Are you collecting all of the royalties you should be? Understanding the types of royalties generated and how to collect them can be difficult because it is complex. At The MLC, we’ve mapped it out […]

This webinar, titled Taking the Initiative on IP Protection, is the second in a series hosted by the Washington Legal Foundation. It features Karyn Temple, Senior EVP and Global General Counsel, Motion Picture Association; and Jan van Voorn, EVP and Chief of Global Content Protection, Motion Picture Association, who will “delve into the motion picture industry’s comprehensive […]

During this Copyright Society webinar, panelists “will address the future of collective management and compare developments in Canada with collective management approaches in other jurisdictions.” Speakers include Lucie Guibault,  professor of intellectual property law and associate director of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada; Kathleen […]

From October 6-8, the Entertainment Law and Sports Forum will host its 44th Annual Conference. This year’s event will include sessions on a wide spectrum of entertainment and sports topics, such as Breaking into the Industry; Box Seats to Business: Sports Law and the Business; Music Licensing in the Age of Social Media: Trends & Legal […]

On August 29, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published a Federal Register Notice requesting comments “that identify online and physical markets to be considered for inclusion in the 2022 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy (Notorious Markets List).” The Notorious Markets List “identifies examples of online and physical markets that reportedly engage in or facilitate […]

On October 12, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith. The question presented before the court is “Whether a work of art is “transformative” when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material (as this Court, the Ninth Circuit, and other courts of appeals […]