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Navigating Copyright Registration
with Entertainment Attorney,
Susan Rabin, Esq.
September 21, 2011
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: How To Navigate the Copyright Office ONLINE REGISTRATION and more...
This workshop deals with copyright law basics and registration issues and will walk you through an actual ONLINE REGISTRATION of a song!
If you have struggled with the unfriendly skies and the murky depths of “ECO” - the U.S. Copyright Office Online Registration site – come listen and watch a music attorney/copyright law professor perform an actual, live, online registration of a song. No blood will be shed! No animals will be injured! The process will be de-mystified and your questions and issues will be answered.
Learn the application process, the details you need to have ready to respond to the online prompts, the proper digital format to submit your songs, how to answer questions regarding “author” and “claimant,” “publication,” “co-authors” and “work for hire.” In addition... Clear up your confusion over copyright v. publishing, compulsory v. mechanical licenses, administration v. publishing, “statutory rate,” issues regarding co-writers, the duration of copyright for your early songs and your newer works, when is an arrangement copyrightable, and work for hire pitfalls.
You will also hear vital and current information regarding the RECAPTURE of songs that you may have assigned or transferred (before you knew better or had a choice).
One lucky attendee will have their song registered online during the workshop for FREE - compliments of LAWiM! For purposes of this demonstration and to participate in the drawing you MUST follow these submission guidelines:
1. Bring an mp3 of your song OR PDF of the sheet music/lyrics for application documentation - in other words... if you need it for the paper version - you need it for the electronic version!
2. Documentation of the work should be on a flash/thumb drive (preferred) OR data CD
3. The work to be registered can be one or more compositions (music & lyrics) - but, they must ALL be composed by the SAME writer or writers. Authorship MUST be exactly the same for each song.
4. You must know the author(s) birthdates, year of completion of the work, whether or not it has been "published" to the public (and when), and who is the "claimant" (owner).
WHERE and WHEN
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Time: 07:00pm - 09:00pm
Location: MUSICIANS INSTITUTE
ARTIST & CAREER SERVICES BUILDING
ROOM ASC-201
6704 Hawthorn Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90028
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PARKING
Area Street Meters +
Public Lots @ McCadden & Hawthorne
and Highland & Hawthorne.
ADMISSION
$15 LAWiM Members (current membership verified)
$15 Student Discount (MUST present valid student photo i.d. at the door)
$25 General Public (all are welcome!)
RSVP by 8pm on 09/20/11
Reservations REQUIRED for guaranteed seating. Walk-ups (if space permits).
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Our Speaker
Susan Rabin, Esq.
 SUSAN RABIN is a veteran music attorney who manages her own firm while also serving Of Counsel to the Beverly Hills firm, Law Advocate Group, LLP. Her practice includes transactions in music, film, television, copyright and trademark law. She handled music supervision and production counsel work on a number of feature films and has also performed consulting work at Universal Pictures in the post production music department.
Susan completed a successful term as Chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Entertainment Law section and now serves on the Board of Directors. She moderates panels on music and entertainment industry for the Beverly Hills Bar Association Barristers, and serves as a judge for the Recording Academy’s (NARAS) Entertainment Law Initiative writing competition in Los Angeles. Previously, Susan served on the Board of Governors and as 1st Vice President of NARAS in San Francisco. She also knows the inside of the music industry from having toured internationally as a vocalist with Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks.
Susan teaches entertainment and copyright law at West Los Angeles School of Law, and has taught at Golden Gate University School of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco State University, and Monterey College of Law.
Susan Rabin has been honored as a "Southern California Super Lawyer" every year since 2006.
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