Remember To Pay The Piper
and Tip Your Waitress!

with Entertainment Attorney,
Susan Rabin, Esq.

May 22, 2010

If you are a Songwriter and/or Publisher, or a musician who wishes to record outside songs, protect your rights and avoid steppng on anyone else's...

This workshop features an experienced music attorney, providing a valuable nuts and bolts guide on sorting out the rights involved in creating and owning music. Music is too precious a commodity for  you to be confused or naïve when it comes to distinguishing authorship from ownership, publishing from copyright, work for hire and employment, infringement from fair use, whether digital uses of music need to conform to copyright rules, and more.

Understanding your rights when there is collaboration and co-writing or even arranging of a song is critical to avoid conflicts that can lead to a loss of your rights and maybe split up a successful creative partnership.

Come prepared with questions, which may include:

• How do you clear and license music for film projects?
• Do you always need permission to use music?
• How do you track down the rights holders?
• What do a "synch" license and a "master use" license cover?
• What are "mechanical rights"?
• Is it "fair use" to use only a few seconds of music?
• What are the ways to protect your songs?

WHERE and WHEN
Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010
Time: 12:00 - 2:00pm
Location: MUSICIANS INSTITUTE
Room P-150
1655 N. McCadden Place
Hollywood, CA 90028
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ADMISSION
$15 LAWIM Members
$25 General Public

LIMITED SEATING
RSVP by 6pm on 05/21/10
Reservations MUST be PAID in ADVANCE.

PURCHASE TICKET HERE

OR MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE to LAWiM and mail to:
11664 National Blvd., #280
Los Angeles, CA 90064

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213.243.6440

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.