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Music law involves several key substantive areas of law copyrights, trademarks, and identity rights, to name a few. While traditional entities such as songwriters and record companies have always existed, technological advances in digital distribution have brought important new players into the mix. Concerns about the usage rights of digital music have emerged as well as agreements arising from the use of music in advertising and branding. Inexpensive duplication technology, the portability and ubiquity of mobile music devices, and the ease of transmitting digital files have also become areas of concern. Music Law for the General Practitioner, Second Edition provides lawyers with comprehensive information on the business and legal topics that are likely to be encountered when representing a musical talent, producer, or consumer.

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Tom Leavens is a partner in Mandell Menkes, LLC. His career as an attorney has involved transactions, counseling and litigation in all areas of performing, visual, and literary expression, new media, and intellectual property. Prior to his present partnership, he was general counsel for LRSmedia, LLC. His responsibilities there included general business management, development of business models, artist and other talent agreements, publishing and record company clearance, distribution agreements, business development, union agreements and intellectual property protection. Prior to joining LRS, Mr. Leavens was general counsel for MusicNow LLC. He also served as general counsel and senior executive vice president of Platinum Entertainment, Inc. and was a partner with McBride, Baker & Coles in Chicago, where he chaired the firm's intellectual property department. He has served as an elected member of the board of managers of the Chicago Bar Association, the board of directors of the Digital Media Association and the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. Mr. Leavens is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law and a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Joseph J. Bogdan is a partner in Rimon, PC, and a serial General Counsel to technology, entertainment, and technology/entertainment companies. He is also tenured faculty in the School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Columbia College Chicago, where he coordinates and teaches a variety of live entertainment, music business, and intellectual property programs and courses. Joe's portfolio career has involved legal work in all areas of entertainment and the arts, intellectual property, technology, and business. It has also involved a significant business component alongside its legal component, with his full-time General Counsel positions doubled by concurrent roles as Executive Vice President Business Affairs (OnAir Streaming Networks, a media streaming company Joe describes as ""Spotify . . . ten years before Spotify""), Chief Operating Officer (Cognitive Concepts, a video game technology and publishing company), Senior Vice President, Business Affairs (World Wrestling Entertainment, an international media and entertainment company), and Executive Vice President, Business Affairs (PlanetArt, a make-on-demand, personalized products e-tailer). While the cornerstone of Joe's practice has long been licensing, entertainment, and technology-industry transactions, he also has expertise in corporate, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, compliance, international law, and commercial real estate. It is in all these areas that he provides services to clients, and teaches, currently. Joe is admitted to practice in Illinois (active) and California (inactive). He obtained his JD from USC Gould School of Law and an MA in Communications Technologies from the USC Annenberg School of Communications. He also holds a bachelor of arts degree in English Literature with a Government Law minor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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