Using music to boost advertising and marketing can have enormous positive results for both brands and bands. In fact, matching bands (or music) with brands is one of the hottest and fastest growing areas of the business today.

Once taboo, brand associations and advertising are embraced by today’s savvy recording artists and their reps to increase exposure to their music and advance their careers. Such recent associations include Feist with Apple, Goldfrapp with Target, Lenny Kravitz with Absolut, Prince with Verizon and Rihanna with Cover Girl.

Increasingly, advertising, brand and marketing executives need to know how to create win-win deals.

NARIP Presents “Bands, Brands & Beyond” Expo

That’s why NARIP has assembled some of the music, brand and advertising world’s top executives and deal architects to discuss how to pair music and artists with brands. These experts will guide attendees through the opportunities available and the complex rights area. They will provide insight into how to use brand association for new and established acts, how to create win-win deals and give a glimpse into what the future of music-in-advertising may hold.

How can artists and their reps access billion dollar brands? How can brands access appropriate talent? NARIP’s Expo will focus on how these deals are done, who does them, how they work and what they cost.

Deals done right and deals gone wrong will be examined in detail with case studies, checklists and proven templates. Attendees will receive information to identify and secure the right match.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet top brand, ad and record executives, as well as artist reps who can help take your campaign to the next level.

You will learn:

• How to “A&R” a brand and connect consumers to brands through the emotional power of music


• Case studies: Goldfrapp with Target, Feist with iTunes and more


• Selling in, not selling out: what deals make dollars and sense


• How to prepare a brief and package ideas to attract and secure a brand


• How to identify and secure an artist


• How artists can add value to an ad campaign


• Deal points: money, splits, fee ranges, negotiation tactics


• Rights and licensing issues


• Who puts these deals together, and how? Top artist managers speak out


• When art meets commerce: accommodations artists and brands must make

Some benefits you will receive:

• Direct access to more than 100 music, marketing and brand execs from over 30 top music companies and ad agencies


• Demystify deal-making in the music business – learn which rights you need to proceed


• Take home a rule book for success, including case studies, checklists, deal points, do’s and don’t’s to create successful promotions and marketing campaigns with music


• Hear CEO and senior management perspectives and world-class music-brand strategies


• Get a sneak preview of the range of music properties available and see what’s in development


• Form alliances with industry reps of established and developing artists to forge partnerships for your music or brand


• Connect with specialists who set music strategy for brands and design big creative concepts


• Form key relationships and expand your record industry Rolodex

*Hollywood Today Publisher & Editor Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn notes that NARIP’s Rolodex is “the size of an SUV.” Click here to read what other people say about NARIP.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Advertising Executives & Creative Directors
Brand Marketing & Creative Executives
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps

SPEAKERS (scroll down for detailed profiles)

• Tena Clark, Founder & CEO/Chief Creative Officer, DMI Music Branding Group


• Andrew M. Nibley, Chairman & CEO, Marsteller, U.S.


• Umut Özaydinli, Global Music Marketing Manager, Worldwide Sports & Entertainment Marketing, Coca-Cola


• Martin Pazzani, CEO in Residence, Bluestone Partners


• Jeff Rabhan, CEO, Three Ring Projects


• Ed Razzano, VP Business Development, Ricall


• Jared Rosenberg, Wright Crear Management, Co-Manager of Janet Jackson


• Phil Sandhaus, Partner, Membrain LLC — JUST ADDED


• Mike Tunicliffe, Founder & President, Tuna Music & Partners, and Advertising Age Columnist

WHEN

Monday, November 10, 2008
9:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
(panel schedule below)

WHERE

Please note NEW location:
National Council of Jewish Women’s Center
543 N. Fairfax Avenue
(just south of Melrose, southwest corner of Clinton & Fairfax)
Los Angeles, CA 90036

SCHEDULE

9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Detailed schedule below.

COST

$169 – NARIP Members Walk-Up (after 11/5 and on site)
$229 – Non-Members Walk-Up (after 11/5 and on site)

Admission includes continental breakfast and full lunch.
No refunds.
Schedule and speakers subject to change.

4 WAYS TO REGISTER

1. Scroll down and register online here now.
2. Call 818-769-7007 with any major credit card.
3. Mail check or money order payable to NARIP to us at P.O. Box 2446, Toluca Lake, CA 91610-2446. Payment must be received no later than Wednesday, November 5. Please be sure to include your contact details and the event for which you are paying.
4. Walk-up (if space permits).

PARKING

Limited free parking in the Center’s lot. When full, free parking available on side streets but be sure to read posted signs.
Metered parking on Fairfax


SOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION

www.adage.com
www.bm.com
www.coca-cola.com
www.coca-cola.com/web8
www.dmimusic.com
www.eliasarts.com
www.emimusic.com
www.miketunnicliffe.com
www.ricall.com
www.threeringprojects.net
www.adage.com/songsforsoap
bandsandbrands.blogspot.com

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

SCHEDULE

9:00 a.m.
Registration opens

9:30 – 11:00am
View From The Top: Tena Clark.

Ms. Clark will discuss setting music strategy for brands such as McDonald’s, Mattel, Procter & Gamble, 7Up, Target, Toyota, Victoria’s Secret, Subway, United Airlines and AARP. Ms. Clark is Founder & CEO / Chief Creative Officer of DMI Music Branding Group.

11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Networking Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
View From The Top II: Phil Sandhaus

Mr. Sandhaus has graciously agreed to fill in for Cynthia Sexton who was scheduled to speak at this session but has had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances. We are fortunate to have him share his expertise on such short notice. He will discuss his brand marketer / artist manager perspective as it relates to artists he has worked with including The Beatles, Billy Joel, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Garth Brooks, and Frank Sinatra, through both traditional and innovative, groundbreaking, non-traditional initiatives, including the recent Spice Girls/Victoria’s Secret strategic partnership. Sandhaus is a Managing Partner in Membrain, a boutique branding and strategic marketing company. Current clients include McDonald’s and Hasbro.

12:45 – 2:15 p.m.
Lunch

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Evolving Deals In Licensing & Branding: A Behind-The-Scenes Look.

This session will cover the most important considerations and rights involved when identifying and securing an artist (or band) to “headline” (or be an integral part of) an ad campaign. Includes licensing, fee ranges and negotiation strategies.

Speakers:

With Mike Tunicliffe, Founder & President, Tuna Music & Partners and Advertising Age Columnist and Ed Razanno, VP of Business Development, Ricall.

3:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Tea Break

4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
Bringing Artists & Brands Together (Who Gets These Deals Done Anyway?). Who brokers these deals and how? How to broker the best deal will be discussed in this session.

Speakers:

Umut Özaydinli, Global Music Marketing Manager, Coca-Cola
Martin Pazzani, CEO in Residence, Bluestone Partners
Jeff Rabhan, CEO, Three Ring Projects
Jared Rosenberg, Wright Crear Management, Co-Manager of Janet Jackson

6:00 p.m.
Event ends

Speakers and schedule subject to change.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)


Tena Clark, Founder & CEO/Chief Creative Officer, DMI Music Branding Group

As Founder and Chief Executive Officer/Chief Creative Officer of DMI Music & Media Solutions, Tena Clark drives the company’s strategic direction. DMI expresses her vision of combining the power of music, digital entertainment, and non-traditional distribution to connect brands to consumers wherever they are. Clark has bridged music and marketing throughout her colorful career. Whether composing and producing milestone commercial campaigns such as McDonald’s “Have You Had Your Break Today” or her years of writing for film and television, with credits that include My Best Friend’s Wedding, Where The Heart Is, Hope Floats, French Kiss, Twins, CBS This Morning and Entertainment Tonight, Clark has connected to audiences through music and has become a thought leader on the power of music branding. Clark’s musical expertise and understanding of audience preferences have also resulted in the gold- and platinum-selling songs she has penned for many of the music industry’s leading artists. Most recently, Clark was the executive producer for the highly anticipated albums Still Unforgettable from Natalie Cole and This Christmas Aretha from Aretha Franklin. She also composed an original song for the Desperate Housewives soundtrack, recorded by LeAnn Rimes, produced Dionne Warwick’s first holiday CD, My Favorite Time of the Year, as well as Church: Songs of Soul & Inspiration, a dual music CD and CD-ROM box set featuring Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and top African-American female artists such as Patti LaBelle and Chaka Khan erforming a collection of favorite R&B, pop, and gospel songs. Clark wrote and produced the single “Way Up There,” recorded by Patti LaBelle for the Church CD that was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award.

Under Clark’s auspices, DMI has pioneered the use of music in branding for over 10 years, delivering music solutions for some of the world’s biggest brands such as United Airlines, AARP, Victoria’s Secret, Subway and many more. Offering a range of capabilities to help brands develop an overall sound strategy, DMI has the music, will get the music or create the music a brand needs to reach today’s media-saturated consumers. Branding boils down to an emotional connection. And everyone knows a good brand when they hear it. DMI’s philosophy is that the greatest way to create loyalty is through emotion, and the greatest way to create emotion is through music.


Umut Özaydinli, Global Music Marketing Manager, Worldwide Sports & Entertainment Marketing, Coca-Cola

As global music marketing manager of Coca-Cola Company, Umut Özaydinli leads music-related partnerships, driving music marketing strategies for the company and executing international music marketing activities as a member of the Worldwide Sports and Entertainment team based in Atlanta.

Prior to moving to Global Team, Özaydinli was based in London as a member of the European Group marketing services team where he oversaw music related marketing activities and activations within the group. During his time in London, he led the Soundwave experiential program across 35 countries featuring Europe’s longest party train. It made stops at 8 different music festivals throughout Europe.

He joined Coca-Cola in 2000 as a member of the brand team based in Turkey and led campaigns that delivered significant growth and market share. Some of the highlights of his time there include one of the first SMS and Internet-based mobile campaigns of the Coca-Cola Company in 2001, which has been used a model by many countries. In 2003 he initiated Turkey’s biggest open-air music festival (Rock ’n Coke) and created a rich marketing program around it. The festival received the Coca-Cola Worldwide Marketing Excellence Award. In 2007 it celebrated its fifth year receiving over 50 hours of TV coverage per year, additional income from ticket sales and numerous sponsors and delivering significant volume uplift while hosting over 200 well-known acts in the course of 5 years.

Özaydinli’s expertise is a good combination of brand management, e-marketing and entertainment marketing. He is Coke’s in-house music expert and keeps working with global Coca-Cola brand teams on his biggest passion – Music – to deliver best-in-class music marketing programs. Also, he recently started managing an Atlanta-based pop rock band Loverush.


Martin Pazzani, CEO in Residence, Bluestone Partners

Martin Pazzani is a CEO in Residence with Bluestone Partners in Beverly Hills, CA where he is pursuing capital investments in music, branded entertainment and media space and building an innovative worldwide alliance of best-in-class companies to capitalize on the growing applications for commercial music and sound, the growing importance of audio as a global communications tool, and the morphing of the music business into a new format that is part entertainment, part advertising, and part technology.

He is a seasoned global business executive and marketing decathlete with a 28-year tenure in management, brand building, integrated marketing and strategic development that spans the ad agency, corporate and entrepreneurial worlds, who until recently was Chairman/CEO of Elias Arts, the world’s most awarded music, sound and audio identity copy where they transformed the company into a diversified music agency.

Elias Arts, the most awarded commercial music and sound company in history, creates original music and sound design for television, advertising, cinema, and products/environments, and is the pioneer in the new field of audio branding. With clients that have included over 700 of the Fortune 1000, Elias Arts’ music, scoring, and audio logos have been used by the most well known brands in the world, including Nike, Adidas, Coke, Pepsi, Infiniti, Lexus, Chrysler, Cadillac, Audi, Anheuser Busch, Cisco, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, American Express, Visa, and many others.

During his eclectic career, Martin has done business on six continents and held senior positions in major corporations and agencies alike, including Foote Cone & Belding, the Interpublic Group, DDB Needham, Bally Total Fitness, and Heublein (now Diageo). In all these roles, Martin has been a strong proponent of using music and sound as a key element in the marketing mix, and he believes that the applications of audio have unlimited potential in the fragmented multi-media marketplace of today, and tomorrow.

When not commuting between NYC and Los Angeles, Martin has a passion for international adventure and travel. As an avid mountaineer, he has climbed major peaks on all seven continents and explored Antarctica, Easter Island, Ngorongoro Crater, the Equatorial Rainforests and more. And as a former F2000 racing driver, he has a keen appreciation for the value of speed, competition, and high performance. He resides in New York City and Hollywood, CA.

Jeff Rabhan, CEO, Three Ring Projects

Three Ring Projects partner Jeff Rabhan is an experienced artist manager and music-industry executive and consultant. He discovered, shopped and oversaw the signing of multi-platinum pop-rocker Michelle Branch, among many others, and helps guide the careers of emerging and established acts like acclaimed American Idol finalist Elliott Yamin, chart-topping R&B siren Lil’ Kim and urban-music hit-maker Jermaine Dupri.

In his various capacities as manager, partner in entertainment company The Firm, soundtrack executive for Atlantic and Elektra Records, consultant and columnist, Rabhan has proved an innovator on multiple fronts. He has worked closely with leading top-tier acts such as Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Lopez, Korn and Enrique Iglesias; helped develop the soundtracks to blockbuster films like Scream; assisted in the exploitation of The Doors’ catalog of rock classics; and contributed to such publications as Rolling Stone and HITS.

Born in Savannah, Ga., and raised in Richmond, Va., Rabhan received a journalism degree from New York University. Shortly after graduating, he began writing for Rolling Stone. Not long thereafter he joined the staff of Atlantic Records and ultimately served as Senior Director of A&R and Soundtracks. Elektra Records subsequently named him Executive Director in Charge of Soundtracks. During this period he oversaw such releases as the Batman, Beautiful Girls and Four Rooms OSTs, among many other discs.

Rabhan briefly but productively worked as an independent music supervisor and A&R consultant, discovering, shopping and signing superstar pop trio Hanson – who sold 20 million records worldwide and whose music and likenesses have generated $250 million+ in global receipts – and working on the successful Scream movie soundtrack.

He spent five years as a partner at top entertainment company The Firm before launching his own management concern, Three Ring Projects. The new entity embraces multiple media and such platforms as fashion and other lifestyle products.

At Three Ring, he has helped parlay Yamin’s Idol visibility into the biggest chart debut by a new artist on an independent label in the history of SoundScan. He has also taken the career reins of Grammy-nominated artist Kelis as well as Jermaine Dupri, one of the architects of contemporary urban music. In addition, he’s collaborated with The Doors Music Company in the creative re-purposing of The Doors’ catalog, imagery and other elements for today’s audiences.

He lives and works in Los Angeles.


Ed Razzano, VP Business Development, Ricall

Prior to joining Ricall, Razzano was a Senior Director at BMG Music Publishing in New York where he was responsible for negotiating synchronization licenses for advertising and merchandising in the US. While at BMG Razzano gained extensive international experience as he was also responsible for international clearance of all BMG’s US repertoire for music in advertising campaigns around the world. Razzano’s more than 15 year music industry experience is drawn from far beyond his time at BMG Publishing; He started his career at a TV commercial editorial house, Crew Cuts Film & Tape, then went on to join the music department of one of the world’s largest advertising agencies at the time, DMB&B. Razzano’s experience was then fortified by positions at CBS Television as well as Universal Music Publishing and Independent music publisher, Spirit Music Group where as Senior Creative Director he oversaw all the film, television and commercial synchronization licensing.

Ricall – where Razzano works today – is an automated online music licensing platform, supported by real-world music licensing experts. It’s not just an amazing online diverse music library, it’s a new way for buyers and sellers of music to connect and communicate with each other in a non-intimidating and user-friendly way.

Jared Rosenberg, Wright Crear Management, Co-Manager of Janet Jackson
Profile posted shortly.

Phil Sandhaus, Partner, Membrain LLC

Twenty five+ years as a record executive, artist manager and brand marketer, cultivating an expertise in domestic and global marketing of artists including The Beatles, Billy Joel, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Garth Brooks, and Frank Sinatra, through both traditional and innovative, groundbreaking, non-traditional initiatives, including the recent Spice Girls/Victoria’s Secret strategic partnership.

Sandhaus is currently a Managing Partner in Membrain, a boutique branding and strategic marketing company, which activates music for brands by providing consulting services that focus on optimizing marketing and business development. Membrain collaborates with established and start-up companies to develop new products that are enhanced by their association with music, identifying and structuring collaborations with best of breed partners creating A+ solutions. Current clients include McDonald’s and Hasbro.

He was manager for David Bowie, overseeing all of his creative and marketing affairs in music, film and theatre, worldwide, including The Glass Spider Tour and the Rykodisc catalog reissues. Sandhaus owned and operated an artist management consultant (clients included Elvis Costello), film production and soundtrack company. He served as Executive Producer of “M. Butterfly”, the feature film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, produced by The Geffen Company/Warner Bros. Pictures; and Executive VP, Tribeca Music, Robert De Niro’s soundtrack label distributed by Sony Music, whose feature films soundtracks included, “A Bronx Tale” and “Amongst Friends” both of which he executive produced.

Prior record label management positions include Head of Strategic Marketing and Product Development for the $250 million dollar a year EMI-Capitol Group Entertainment Properties Division, overseeing projects such as The Beatles Anthology, and Executive Producer – The Beatles’ “The Making of Sgt. Pepper” educational initiative, including a televised program distributed by Channel One’s Classroom Channel to over 8 million students in 12,000 middle and high schools across the U.S. He executive produced both “The Band – Across the Great Divide” and “The Beach Boys Pet Sounds” Box Sets. Oversaw the release of the first Starbuck’s cd release, ever, Blue Note Blend.

He has held senior marketing and artist development positions at both Columbia Records and Capitol Records. From 1994-’97, Sandhaus was a member of the Capitol Records New Technologies Committee, which oversaw the development of all CD+, CD-ROM and Internet activities. In 1999, consulted for Atomic Pop, a music and lifestyle Internet site, on the integration of on-line and off-line marketing, sales and distribution of music product including Public Enemy and Ice-T.

Sandhaus was General Manager of independent record label Beyond Music overseeing the platinum selling Lucy Pearl release and the Motley Crue Catalog reissues, amongst others. Senior Executive, General Manager, overseeing the launch of Beyondmusic.com, a 24/7 internet broadband entertainment network that epitomized cross-channel marketing and distribution initiatives to serve worldwide consumer demand for music, entertainment and talent-branded products, powered by HP, in 2000.

He worked with Moir/Borman Entertainment as senior consultant on the worldwide album management of The Rolling Stones – Forty Licks CD release initiating strategic partnerships with the FOX Broadcasting Company, The Simpsons, and MTV Latin. He executive produced AudioSlave Live in Havana, Cuba, May 2005. He is producing an Eartha Kitt biopic and a feature film, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, based on the life stories of anti-Vietnam War activists, brothers and priests, Dan and Phil Berrigan. He is also currently Executive Producer of an animated musical film version of L. Frank Baum’s (The Wizard of Oz), A Patchwork Girl, with music by Mick Jones (The Clash) and lyrics by Robert Hunter (The Grateful Dead).

Sandhaus is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tim Robbins’ theatre company, The Actors’ Gang, in Los Angeles and is on the Entertainment Committee of the Violence Policy Center, acknowledged as the “most effective” gun control group in America. Sandhaus also serves on the Board of Give US Your Poor, http://www.giveusyourpoor.org/, an initiative based at the University of Massachusetts whose mission is to create a revolution in public awareness, dispel myths and inspire action towards ending epidemic homeless in the United States. He is one of the Producers of the GUYP cd release, 17 New recordings to Help End Homelessness, featuring Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen, Danny Glover, Jewel, Bonnie Raitt. He is on the Board of Advisors of Grid Republic, www.gridrepublic.org/ a non-profit organization that provides a safe and accessible way of advancing “distributed computing. The desired result is to create a massive supercomputer that can work on public research projects, the key to unlocking the cures and tools for solving humanity’s problems.

Sandhaus has a BS from Cornell University and serves on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board for the Cornell Hotel School.



Cynthia Sexton, Executive VP, Global Brand Partnerships, Licensing, and Synch, EMI Music

In June 2008, Cynthia Sexton was promoted to Executive Vice President, Global Brand Partnership, Licensing and Synchronization for EMI Music. In this expanded, worldwide role, Ms. Sexton, who was previously Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Licensing for EMI Music North America, continues to be based in Los Angeles and reports to Ronn Werre, President, EMI Music Commercial Development.

In this new role, Ms. Sexton’s responsibilities expanded to include worldwide accountability for the licensing of all EMI assets for inclusion in film, television and branded products and services. She also oversees initiatives to develop relationships between EMI’s labels, artists and consumer brands.

During her time at EMI Music North America, Ms. Sexton has overseen music licensing deals and strategic marketing initiatives which paired works from EMI Music artists with leading brands including Nissan, Apple, Diet Coke, L’Oreal, Target, Ford, Royal Caribbean, and Sauza Tequila among others. Sexton also led EMI Music efforts to place music in films and TV, leading to multiple EMI recordings being used in the “Sex and the City” film and related marketing initiatives, for theme songs to HBO’s “Entourage” and for the Fox series “House” and in TV shows including “Grey’s Anatomy,” “CSI,” “Big Love,” “Law and Order” and more. She drove efforts to license music in games and their related marketing campaigns, including “Grand Theft Auto,” “Guitar Hero,” “Rock Band” and “Dance Dance Revolution.”

Prior to her EMI Music North America role, Ms. Sexton held a variety of senior roles at EMI’s Virgin Records, where she spearheaded some of the label’s earliest forays in strategic marketing and digital initiatives. She joined Virgin Records/Virgin Publishing in 1988 and headed up the Los Angeles Business Affairs department.


Mike Tunnicliffe, Founder & President, Tuna Music & Partners, and Advertising Age Columnist

A former CEO level agency executive, Mike Tunnicliffe is a leader in alternative marketing solutions and brand partnerships in the entertainment business. He co-writes a regular column for Advertising Age and a blog ‘Bands & Brands’ that gives in depth views on the latest happenings in brand-music partnerships and new business models in the music, entertainment and brand communications businesses.

Nominated by M&M Europe as “one of the top 100 most influential people in global advertising and marketing”. Leading international advertising magazine Campaign honored Mike by adding him to their “A List” of most influential people in today’s advertising and marketing business.

His New York and London based management company, Tuna Music LLC, advises agencies, brands, entertainment properties and businesses and musical artists on marketing, business strategies, partnerships and revenue creation opportunities. He works directly with some leading music brands, including a Grammy-winning multi-platinum selling urban star, a high profile rock act, some leading urban “divas” and the world’s largest online music licensing platform Ricall.

He is also a partner in leading Los Angeles-based independent branded entertainment and alternative marketing company: The Sheppard, which works with clients and marketing communications businesses to create and execute branded content and alternative marketing solutions and with event, IP owners, entertainment businesses and corporations to create new revenue streams and business opportunities.

To assist with your music licensing needs, NARIP is pleased to present a panel discussion devoted to licensing, one of the most important but frequently least understood areas of the business. With the explosion of media outlets hungry for music, and ongoing needs for music in film and television, opportunities for licensing abound. But the competition is fierce, too, and without a clear understanding of the basics, you may be missing opportunities and leaving money on the table.

Join NARIP’s discussion with three of the industry’s most respected and experienced licensing experts (see detailed profiles below):

• Michelle Bayer, Founder, Shelly Bay Music
• Monica Corton, VP of Creative Affairs & Licensing, Next Decade Entertainment, Inc.
• Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Founder, DMG Clearances

• Basic skills on how to understand music publishing licensing vs. master licensing
• General information on how to administer your own publishing if no publisher will take you or your artists on as a client (i.e. affiliating with a PRO and the Harry Fox Agency)
• How to find licensing opportunities and increase the marketability of songs for different types of licensing environments
• General fee ranges for different types of licensing and how to negotiate the best rate

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

MONICA CORTON

Monica Corton is Vice President of Creative Affairs and Licensing at Next Decade Entertainment, Inc. Her responsibilities include all creative exploitation of Next Decade’s works, searching for new talent, negotiating, drafting and licensing all works published and administered by the company as well as overseeing the distribution of royalties. Next Decade’s prestigious publishing clients include Harry Belafonte, the music from the band Boston’s first two albums, the Estate of Milton Gabler, Gaucho/Sandbox Music (70s R&B catalog), the Estate of E.Y. “Yip” Harburg (“April in Paris”, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”, “It’s Only a Paper Moon”, “Old Devil Moon”), the Estate of Jay Gorney, trance/dance writer Jan Johnston, J Joy (famous DJ from Malta), Bob McGrath (from Sesame Street) and Vic Mizzy (“Addams Family Theme” and “Green Acres Theme”). In addition, she serves as a music supervisor for Next Decade’s various film, television and Broadway projects.

Since joining Next Decade in 1991, she has been involved in the supervision of Golden Harvest Films’, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III and was the Assistant Music Supervisor for Warner Bros., Grumpier Old Men. In addition, she was Music Supervisor for Paramount Pictures, The Odd Couple II starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. She served as the Music Supervisor for the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest starring Gary Sinise and the Broadway play Freak starring John Leguizamo. Ms. Corton was a Music Consultant to Warner Bros. for the motion picture release of The Replacements starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman. She was the music supervisor for the CBS television motion picture entitled Gleason. Other credits include Music Supervisor for the Off-Broadway production, Bunny Bunny, a play based on the relationship of the playwright, Alan Zweibel, and Gilda Radner during their tenure as writer and performer on Saturday Night Live.

Ms. Corton is an active member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. In 2005 and 2006, she was the national chairperson for Copyright Awareness Week (CAW), an annual event sponsored by the Copyright Society to advance the understanding of copyright to American students in public schools and colleges. Under her leadership, CAW promoted a national radio PSA campaign with artists including 3 Doors Down, Deborah Allen, Gavin DeGraw, John Legend, Mary Mary, Martina McBride, Paul Overstreet, Leslie Satcher, Sir Mix-A-Lot and the Ying Yang Twins. She created alliances for CAW with the Motion Picture Association of America, the Business Software Alliance, the Entertainment Software Association and the Film Foundation, as well as other copyright related organizations for their participation in CAW and their contribution of curricula materials to the project. In addition, she wrote and created curricula materials, which were promoted to teachers through CAW’s teacher partners which included MENC – The National Association for Music Education, NAEA – The National Art Education Association, NCTE – The National Council of Teachers of English and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

In 2005, Ms. Corton was a guest speaker at the International Intellectual Property Conference at Fordham Law School as well as guest speaker for the recipients of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She is a member of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) where she served on its Steering Committee. Her other speaking engagements have included panelist for the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.’s “Internet Licensing” forum, guest lecturer for the New York Java Users Group and guest lecturer for the Music Management Program at the Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford Career Day.

Ms. Corton is also an active member of the Friars Club where she has served on their Admissions Committee, Entertainment Committee, House Committee and Nominating Committee. She has just recently finished her tenure as the chairperson for the Friars Club Licensing Committee, a committee she helped to create due to the growing licensing demands of the club. Ms. Corton is also a member of the board of ELEM, Youth in Distress, a group whose efforts support some twenty-five programs throughout Israel to advance issues for young people and give social support as well as job training in a variety of multi-cultural programs.

Ms. Corton is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford and holds a Bachelor of Music in flute performance and music education. While at Hartt she obtained certification from the Kodaly Musical Training Institute. Ms. Corton has studied flute with John Wion and Bert Lucarelli and has given classical and jazz concerts and master classes throughout the east coast.

DEBORAH MANNIS-GARDNER

With over 17 years experience working in the music industry, Deborah Mannis-Gardner has cornered the market in music clearances.

After working for Diamond Time and RCA Records, and at the suggestion of clients who missed her availability, Deborah established her own music clearance company, DMG Clearances, Inc., in 1996. For the past 15 years Deborah has gained recognition not only in the music industry but also in the videogame, feature film, DVD, and television industries as well.

Deborah works with top labels such as Atlantic Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI/Capitol Records, Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records, Bad Boy Records, Island Def Jam Recordings, Universal Records, and Warner Bros. Records, clearing samples for such renowned artists as John Legend, Mariah Carey, Gwen Stefani, Damien Marley, Missy Elliot, Eminem, The Notorious B.I.G., and Kid Rock to name a few. DMG Clearances is known for having the ability to clear difficult copyrights from Led Zeppelin, Prince, AC/DC, and others, which has made DMG the leader in music clearances.

Deborah’s feature film music clearances include Martin Scorcese’s The Aviator, Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile, In Her Shoes and Lucky You, The Coen Brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou, and Richard Linklater’s School Of Rock. Additionally, she has worked with major film companies such as New Line Cinema, Miramax, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Revolution Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures.

Some of DMG’s broadcast television special clearances include concerts by Yolanda Adams, Rod Stewart and Tina Turner.

DMG has always been forward thinking in terms of new business genres to enter into, such as the videogame industry. As the clearance agent for RockStar Games, Inc., she has obtained thousands of clearances for the music used in their well publicized videogames such as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas thru GTAIV, The Warriors, the Midnight Club series and EA’s Boogie Superstar. Deborah was also instrumental in helping to bring designer Marc Ecko into the world of videogames by clearing the music for Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. DMG has also worked as a consultant for other videogame companies as well, such as EA Entertainment and Activision and currently is working on a new video game for Genius Products.

And Deborah Mannis-Gardner is just getting started. With her happy clientele, impressive industry contacts, and stellar reputation, DMG Clearances, Inc. still has a few more corners to turn.

To assist with your urban music marketing needs, NARIP has scheduled this special teleseminar.

Learn about important trends in urban music today. Start a marketing plan for your urban music act in one session, or boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. Learn strategies for maximum marketing with little or no budget, what works and what doesn’t.

Brian Shafton, an expert and leader in urban music marketing and partner of RBC Records, will lead this teleseminar.

You will learn:

• Key considerations in marketing urban music vs. other genres
• Key urban music publications, media outlets and distributors
• Urban music sales trends
• Key outlets: what sells well and where?
• Urban radio trends – key stations, and how important is radio anyway?
• Creating an urban music marketing strategy: an easy way to begin
• Your complete urban music marketing toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t
• Branding made simple… and effective
• Plus the opportunity to email questions and chat live with instructor Brian Shafton
• And much more…

• List of key retail chains
  
• Mobile marketing media survey
  
• African Americans Online – research findings
  
  

BRIAN SHAFTON, PARTNER, RBC RECORDS
With over 44 years’ experience in executive positions at Priority Records between the two of them, Brian Shafton and partner Bob Grossi helped build the careers of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Mos Def, Master P, N.W.A, Mack 10, the Geto Boys and a host of others, as well as labels such as Death Row, No Limit, Rawkus, Ruthless and Rap-A-Lot. RBC works with distributors such as Navarre, Fontana, Universal, EMI, Atlantic, RED, Asylum, Caroline, ADA and Select-O-Hits to help make Jill Scott, E-40, Raphael Saadiq, Public Enemy, 8Ball & MJG, Tech N9ne, Layzie Bone, DJ Quik, C-Bo and others reach their full retail, sales and visibility potential.

Recognized by The Source in the magazine’s Power 30 (2007), RBC received props for aiding in Hip-Hop’s move towards independence and offering established artists the infrastructure for their indie labels. RBC allows its artists to retain 100 percent interest in their masters and their company. To date, the company’s biggest successes include Jill Scott’s “Words and Sounds Volume 3” which has sold over 600,000 copies and Tech N9ne’s Absolute Power and Anghellic albums, which have shipped more than 250,000 units each. RBC titles from Raphael Saadiq, The Game, Do Or Die and DJ Quik have shipped more than 100,000 units each. In fact, RBC delivered Fontana its first No. 1 independent record in 2005 with DJ Quik’s Trauma. In 2006, RBC helped Tech N9ne’s Everready (The Religion) debut at the No. 2 spot on the independent albums chart. Other RBC clients include Jill Scott, Public Enemy, Nappy Roots, EPMD, Dipset, 8 Ball & Devius, C-BO’s West Coast Mafia label, MSC, Fall Thru (home of the Ghetto Fights, Ghetto Brawls) and more.

“We’re able to penetrate retail on an urban level above and beyond what anyone else can do,” Shafton says. “We have relationships with everybody from radio to streets to press to television buyers. We’ve been doing this a long time, so we feel that we can look at a project, examine it and put forth the best marketing plan for it.” It’s a proven formula. “We have watched the majors fall apart, such as MCA, Priority, Loud and the Capitol/Virgin merger,” Shafton says. “At the same time, the independent companies we work with not only continue to exist but to thrive in this incredibly competitive marketplace. They are making money.”.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO
www.rbc-records.com

• “Choose a lane” – define your goal(s)
• Key outlets: what sells well and where?
• Most important parts of an urban music marketing strategy
• Key urban music publications, media outlets and distributors
• Key considerations in marketing urban music vs. other genres
• Urban radio trends – key stations and how important is radio anyway?

• An easy way to begin your urban music marketing campaign
• Geography
• Street marketing – how and where for best results
• Social networks
• Grassroots and fan efforts
• Radio and retail
• Alternate marketing and promotion avenues

• Snippets and mix tapes
• DJ hook-ups
• Cable advertising
• Posters and flats – what works and what doesn’t
• Web site and social network sites

• Sales: Physical, Digital, Merch, Tickets
• Artist Branding
• Fan Data Acquisition (Email Lists, Demographics, etc.)
• Additional Revenue Opportunities

For those who want to get and make the most of digital distribution, the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) presents a 2-part teleseminar workshop on July 23 and July 30.

You will learn how to get digital distribution, the best ways to work with digital distributors, and which arrangement best suits your label or individual needs. Also, you’ll learn about sales arrangements, territories, and payment terms – everything you need to achieve sales success.

Find out how you can use SoundScan and other tools, how to identify the best digital distributors to suit your needs, how to approach them, and how to get the best deal and achieve maximum exposure for your product.

Steven Corn, a recognized industry leader in digital music distribution and CEO of BFM Digital, will lead both sessions of this unique teleseminar.

Plus, we welcome your questions about areas within digital distribution of greatest interest to you. Please email any questions to NARIP at info AT narip DOT com.

You will learn:

• What it is & how it works
• Who needs it and when
• How to get it and what it costs
• Types of digital distributors and sales
• How to work with digital distributors for maximum profits
• Flow chart of distribution channels
• How to fan the flames and create demand for your product
• How to get paid and revenue structures

STEVEN CORN, CEO OF BFM DIGITAL
Steven Corn brings over 20 years of strategic media and music licensing experience to BFM Digital, a digital distribution company specializing in representing independent artists and content via all major download services. Corn is responsible for the over all vision of the company and signing BFM Digital’s current clients which include iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Napster, MediaNet, Rhapsody and many others. Prior to forming BFM, he created Corn Music Services, Inc. a company that licenses music, sound effects and images to cellular providers around the world for use as ringtones, wallpaper and ringbacks. Corn Music Services continues to provide consulting services for high-volume licensees and licensors such as MySpace, Fox Interactive, Oddcast and kSolo.com. Prior to this, Corn was Executive VP at Licensemusic.com, the first complete, online music licensing service. He also served as the VP/General Manager of Megatrax Production Music, a leading production music library. His background in the music industry includes music supervision for independent films and television movies. He was in charge of music for many theatrical and home video releases at LIVE Entertainment (now Artisan Entertainment). In that position, he negotiated soundtrack deals and administered the company’s catalog of publishing rights in over 60 films. Corn is a contributing editor for the newsletter “RoyaltyWeek” where you can find his weekly rants in a column called “The Digital Lowdown.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO
www.bfmdigital.com
www.cornmusicservices.com
bigfishmedia.typepad.com

WHEN
Session 1: Wed, July 23 – 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (Pacific) – detailed agenda below
Session 2: Wed, July 30 – 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (Pacific) – detailed agenda below

WHERE
Near your telephone – call in from anywhere in the world!

REGISTER NOW
$40: NARIP Members
$80: Non-members

This price includes the two (2) one-hour teleseminars, the opportunity to email in questions (info@narip.com), chat live with Steven after each session, and an MP3 file of each session.

NOTE
You will receive call-in information (telephone number and pass code) when payment is received.

________________________________________

Session 1
Wednesday, July 23
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (Pacific)

Agenda

· When is the right time to go with digital distribution?
· The role of digital distribution in today’s music industry. Marketshare and territorial stats.

· What are the various types of digital sales? Define the various types of transactions:
o Permanent downloads (DRM-protected vs. non-DRM)
o Conditional or tethered downloads
o Streams
o To-go services
o Cellular
o Variable pricing

· What are the various revenue structures?
o A la cart
o Subscription
o Hybrid (i.e., pre-paid plans)
o Ad Revenue
o User-defined pricing / auction style

· Which types of companies are part of the digital music sales chain?

· SoundScan and the role digital sales play in various charts

· Rights Required:

o US vs. international
o DPD explanations
o Rights required for subscription / tethered downloads

· Label Responsibilities:
o Rights Clearances
o Metadata preparation
o Marketing/Promotion

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Session 2
Wednesday, July 30
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (Pacific)

Agenda

· Music Services Major Deal Terms

o Term
o Territory
o Publisher rights
o Takedown provisions
o Revenue share
o Retail pricing flexibility
o Promotional use

· Digital Aggregators: Different Models

o Revenue share
o Fixed fee
o Other fees: processing, encoding, takedown, corrections, etc.

· Digital Aggregator Major Deal Terms
o Percentage
o Term of contract
o Takedown provisions
o Fees
o Advances
o Audit rights
o Payment / accounting periods
o Exclusivity
o Territory

· How to tie in digital distribution with your terrestrial distribution
· Unique opportunities in the digital market

o Digital singles
o Re-release out of print albums
o Compilations
o Digital only albums
o Pre-releases

· Factors to consider in a digital distribution deal

o Accessibility
o Customer services
o Responsiveness
o Speed to market
o Rush releases
o Territory
o Marketing
o Flexibility of terms (can you get out of it?)
o Market penetration (how many stores?)
o DPD administration
o Speed of payments
o Types of reports
o Online reporting (aka Webtrends)

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We’re doing it again!

Fat, fit, feisty and fractious, what could be a more fitting place for NARIP’s next cocktail mixer than Skinny’s Lounge, snuggled elegantly in the gloriously refurbished NoHo Arts District? That’s right, none. Or in the famous words of Nigel Tufnel, “None. None more.”

This is a time of immense change in the record business, in case you hadn’t noticed. And with more and more people striking out on their own, not to mention ongoing lay-offs at many record labels both large and small, there is a greater need than ever for professionals in our business to come together, meet, mingle and network. And drink (in moderation, of course).

NARIP at your service, thank you. What on earth would you be doing on a Monday night anyway?!

Admission at NARIP’s cocktail mixer is FREE, please RSVP your attendance so we can plan complimentary appetizers and stock up on vodka.

It would be a mistake to overlook the importance of making new friends and meeting new people. Dig the well before you need the water. We all need the water sooner or later. Or the cocktail.

Join NARIP and friends, meet new people and have some fun.

WHEN

Monday, July 14, 2008
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

WHERE

Skinny’s Lounge
4923 Lankershim Boulevard
North Hollywood, CA 91610

Click here for map.

COST

Free admission, complimentary light appetizers.

PARKING

Small lot behind the club, free parking on Lankershim after 6:00 p.m.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

To assist with your online music marketing needs, NARIP has scheduled this special teleseminar. Start an online marketing plan in one session. Boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. A great plan doesn’t have to be complicated. A good one can be just one page long. Spreadsheets, graphs and numbers are not necessary.

But you NEED a plan. Lack of a good plan destroys more careers than lack of talent. Good marketing is simply getting your work to the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost.

Jason Feinberg, a top expert and leader in online music marketing and president of On Target Media Group, will lead this unique teleseminar.

Plus, we welcome your questions about online music marketing in advance. Please email any questions to NARIP at info AT narip DOT com.

You will learn:

• Most important parts of online music marketing strategy
• An easy way to begin your online marketing campaign
• Your complete digital toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t
• Branding made simple… and effective
• How to use social networks, blog, MySpace & YouTube
• Sites seeking content – excellent marketing opportunities for you
• How to build a brand and get more fans
• And much more…

JASON FEINBERG, PRESIDENT, ON TARGET MEDIA GROUP
Jason Feinberg is president and founder of On Target Media Group, an entertainment industry Internet marketing and promotion company. Jason is responsible for business development, formulating and managing online marketing campaigns, and media relations with over 1000 Web sites and media outlets. In four short years On Target Media Group has defined itself as one of the industry’s top online marketing and promotion firms with clients including Warner Bros Records, Universal Music Enterprises, EMI America, Capitol Records, Concord Music Group, Tenth Street Entertainment, and many more. OTMG has run online marketing campaigns for Ringo Starr, Mötley Crüe, Carole King, JJ Cale / Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Primus, George Benson / Al Jarreau, Poncho Sanchez, and many more. When not running OTMG, Jason teaches in the Music Business program at Musicians Institute in Hollywood.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO
www.otmg.net

WHEN
Wed, July 9 – 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (Pacific) – agenda below

WHERE
Near your telephone – call in from anywhere in the world!

REGISTER NOW
$20: NARIP Members BEFORE Friday, July 4 at 5:00 p.m.
$40: Non-members BEFORE Friday, July 4 at 5:00 p.m.

This price includes the one-hour teleseminar, the opportunity to email in questions (info@narip.com), chat live with Jason after the session, and an MP3 file of the session.

NOTE
You will receive call-in information (telephone number and pass code) when payment is received.

________________________________________

Wednesday, July 9
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (Pacific)
Agenda

Creating an Online Marketing Strategy

· Social Networks
· Grassroots / Fan Efforts
· Widgets / Flash / Embeddable Code

Passive vs. Active Online Marketing

Web Presence: Official Site, MySpace, Social Network Pages, etc

· Critical Information
· Designing With the Fan in Mind
· Creating A Sales Machine

Awareness: How to Inform Existing Fans and Create New Ones

· Different Online Marketing and Promotion Avenues
· Editorial Coverage
· Audio/Video Placement
· Blogs / Podcasts / Music Tastemakers
· Online Radio
· Online Retail

Distribution: Making Your Product Available Physically and Digitally

Essential Sites and Tools for Independent Labels and Artists

Ultimate Goals

· Sales: Physical, Digital, Merch, Tickets
· Artist Branding
· Fan Data Acquisition (Email Lists, Demographics, etc.)
· Additional Revenue Opportunities

Fat, fit, feisty and fractious, what could be a more fitting place for NARIP’s next cocktail mixer than the Pig & Whistle, deep in the center of Hollywood action? That’s right, none. Or in the famous words of Nigel Tufnel, “None. None more.”

This is a time of immense change in the record business, in case you hadn’t noticed. And with more and more people striking out on their own, not to mention ongoing lay-offs at many record labels both large and small, there is a greater need than ever for professionals in our business to come together, meet and network. And drink (in moderation, of course).

NARIP at your service, thank you.

Admission at NARIP’s cocktail mixer is FREE, please RSVP your attendance so we can plan properly.

Here is a tiny ode to sum up what you will encounter. NARIP will award one complimentary cocktail to any person who submits a superior ode which shouldn’t be difficult as our iambic pentameter ain’t what it used to be. The more literary among you may note a certain bold stylistic mix of meters.

One does what one can.

Small Ode To NARIP

Come out, come out wherever you are
Go Metro to meet NARIP, go green-ly sans car *

Next week at The Pig come mix, schmingle and meet
Take a heavy load off those Ken Cole-encased feet

Find yourself neatly in the thick of it all
Warmly welcomed and feted by the belle of the ball

As introductions are made and deals boldly begun
Exchange biz cards, find like-minds, become delightfully unstrung

Meet good folks, quaff ale as dusk gently lengthens
How did you function pre-NARIP, relationships now strengthened?

Then off you go, waltzing back to the Metro
To ferry you home, dressed in dark Hollywood Retro

Singing merry songs en route with your many new friends
Chanting “NARIP forever!” your loud cheery roars blend

Resisting arrest you arrive safely home
NARIP tucks you in gently, and leaves you alone

Moving forward you enjoy new opportunities, friends gifted
Now go take on the world, both refreshed and uplifted!

NARIP Forever

Join NARIP and friends at The Pig, meet new people and have some fun.

WHEN

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

WHERE

Pig & Whistle
6714 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
Tel: (323) 463-0000

Click here for map.

COST

Free admission.

PARKING

Free street parking after 6:00 p.m., public (paid) lots along Hollywood Boulevard. NARIP says GO GREEN and use the METRO (the Pig & Whistle is a stone’s throw from the Hollywood & Highland metro stop).

If you Go Metro, here’s how it works:

Step 1: View the METRO MAP.
Get a general view of where the closest rail is to you and what connection(s) you will need to get to UHollywood & Highland. The map contains each station’s physical address and P = Parking if available. Option: Drive to your nearest rail station and park to take the metro rail if your station has a park-and-ride option. If there isn’t parking available, then have a friend drop you off, or use the metro trip planner (scroll down) for more options such as bus options that will take you to the metro.
Map Link

Step 2: Use the Metro TRIP PLANNER.
This will give you a step-by-step guide to get from one address to the final destination. Metro station addresses can be obtained from the interactive rail map. Just click on the name of the station for the physical address. This trip planner uses the bus system too, so if you only want to ride the rail, then only put the rail station address in.
Trip Planner Link

Step 3: Confirm your TIME TABLE.
If you like to figure things out on your own….just use the timetables. The rail timetables are 801-901.
Time Table Link

Step 4: COST of Metro.
Research fares or any other questions you may have.
More Info link

Feel free to call NARIP and ask for Tara if you have METRO questions!

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal launched last year in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Live mock negotiations evidently hit the spot! See articles on front page of this site for reviews and photos of record and digital distribution deal sessions.

Once again we bring you top music attorneys, this time Andrew Bergman and Dina LaPolt who is back by popular demand (and 2nd place winner in NARIP’s recent Best of the Biz Survey, Music Attorney Category). Moderating our panel with be music attorney Garrett M. Johnson.

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But the truth is, as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Now, of this latest installment of our special series, two top lawyers face off in a live negotiation of a producer agreement in NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a producer deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal making!

YOU WILL LEARN:

When it’s the right time to make a deal

Major areas of negotiation, including:

• Producer advance vs. recording fund. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s recording fund?
• Producer royalty. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s royalty?
  
• Recoupment
• Terms & Options
• Controlled Composition Clause: what you need to know if your producer is also your co-writer!
• What does the artist’s recording agreement say?? THIS affects the producer’s royalty, royalty accountings, mechanical royalties, CD reductions, “fake” free goods and much more!

SAE Institute
1293 Broadway
9th Floor
New York, NY 10001-2910
(at 34th Street, One Herald Center, Daffy’s building on corner)

Click here for map.

COST:

$15 for NARIP Members
$30 for Non-Members

SPECIAL BONUS:

Because you are purchasing a ticket to NARIP’s program, we offer you an MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. This way, you won’t have to take notes and can refer back to important points in the discussion later. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

PAYMENT METHODS:

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

GARRETT M. JOHNSON

Garrett M. Johnson is a transactional attorney currently serving in an Of Counsel capacity with The Bozeman Law Firm, in Mount Vernon, New York, where he specializes in entertainment and tax law. He is a member of the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia and admitted to the United States Tax Court. He also participates in the Entertainment Law Forum of the American Bar Association and the Sports and Entertainment Division of the D.C. Bar. Mr. Johnson’s practice includes significant prior experience in the Office of the General Counsel at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he specialized in the areas of arts law, government practice, and intellectual property matters. Since the mid eighties he has represented a wide spectrum of talent and industry entities including musicians, recording artists, composers, producers, independent labels and artist management companies, amongst others. Specific practice areas include negotiating recording, licensing, publishing, distribution and performance contracts and providing music publishing administration to selected client catalogs. Mr. Johnson’s expertise is recognized across the country and he is a frequent lecturer and panelist on legal and business issues in the music industry. Mr. Johnson received an A.B. in economics from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

DINA LaPOLT

Dina LaPolt is an entertainment attorney at LaPolt Law, P.C. in Los Angeles. LaPolt Law is a boutique entertainment firm that specializes in representing clients in the music, merchandising, film, television, and book publishing industries. The firm’s clientele include recording artists, independent record companies, music publishers, songwriters, producers, managers, executives in the music and film industries, film production companies, photographers, directors, writers, authors, and actors. In addition to practicing law, Dina teaches “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Recording and Publishing Industries” in the Entertainment Studies Department at UCLA Extension and speaks regularly on panels at music industry conferences all over the country. On the film production side, Dina was the co-producer of the 2005 Academy Award-nominated documentary film entitled Tupac: Resurrection and she is currently co-producing a feature film entitled Live 2 Tell. For more information on Dina LaPolt or her firm, please log on to www.LaPoltLaw.com.

NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal launched last year in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Live mock negotiations evidently hit the spot! See articles on front page of this site for reviews and photos of record and digital distribution deal sessions.

Once again we bring you top music attorneys, this time Zach Katz and Dina LaPolt who is back by popular demand (and 2nd place winner in NARIP’s recent Best of the Biz Survey, Music Attorney Category).

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But the truth is, as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Now, in Part III (in Los Angeles) of this special series, two top lawyers (one of them an artist manager) face off in a live negotiation of a producer agreement in NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a producer deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal making!

YOU WILL LEARN:

When it’s the right time to make a deal

Major areas of negotiation, including:

• Producer advance vs. recording fund. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s recording fund?
• Producer royalty. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s royalty?
  
• Recoupment
• Terms & Options
• Controlled Composition Clause: what you need to know if your producer is also your co-writer!
• What does the artist’s recording agreement say?? THIS affects the producer’s royalty, royalty accountings, mechanical royalties, CD reductions, “fake” free goods and much more!

SAE Institute
6565 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(across from Cat & Fiddle, between Highland & Vine)

Click here for map.

COST:

$30 for NARIP Members
$50 for Non-Members

Attention attorneys: receive 2.75 MCLE credits for attending this program for only $40 more. Select Premium Ticket option below.

SPECIAL BONUS:

Because you are purchasing a ticket to NARIP’s program, we offer you an MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. This way, you won’t have to take notes and can refer back to important points in the discussion later. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

PAYMENT METHODS:

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Mail payment to NARIP to P.O. Box 2446, Toluca Lake, CA 91610-2446. Be sure to indicate which program you are paying for, and please include contact details. Mailed payment must be received no later than Tuesday, April 8.
4. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

DINA LaPOLT

Dina LaPolt is an entertainment attorney at LaPolt Law, P.C. in Los Angeles. LaPolt Law is a boutique entertainment firm that specializes in representing clients in the music, merchandising, film, television, and book publishing industries. The firm’s clientele include recording artists, independent record companies, music publishers, songwriters, producers, managers, executives in the music and film industries, film production companies, photographers, directors, writers, authors, and actors. In addition to practicing law, Dina teaches “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Recording and Publishing Industries” in the Entertainment Studies Department at UCLA Extension and speaks regularly on panels at music industry conferences all over the country. On the film production side, Dina was the co-producer of the 2005 Academy Award-nominated documentary film entitled Tupac: Resurrection and she is currently co-producing a feature film entitled Live 2 Tell. For more information on Dina LaPolt or her firm, please log on to www.LaPoltLaw.com.

ZACH KATZ

“Navigating through the music business is like living in the Matrix”, says Zach Katz. “If you don’t have Neo as your guide, you’re lost.” In an ever-changing industry where no one or nothing is really who or what they seem to be, success depends largely on who is guiding your career. For over a decade Zach Katz, as a music attorney, music executive and manager, has guided the careers of some of the industry’s most important artists and producers.

Katz earned his Juris Doctorate from Loyola School of Law in 1996 and went into private practice in his home city of Los Angeles. He quickly found success and became the go-to guy for numerous notable artists, producers, record labels, distributors and publishing companies who heard about the young music attorney with a true love for music, particularly hip-hop. “I was never satisfied with just drafting and negotiating agreements. Securing endorsements, merchandising opportunities, and touring engagements for my clients were prominent parts of my practice”.

This unorthodox “lawyering” became a natural transition into the next stage of Katz’s career in the music industry. In 2000, one of his legal clients Groove Attack GMBH, a European music distribution powerhouse, decided to launch a U.S. hip-hop record label. Based on his work with Groove Attack, Katz was asked to become the CEO of the new enterprise. During his two years as the company’s CEO, Katz supervised the production, distribution and marketing of several critically acclaimed albums, including the solo album from A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg. Phife’s album went on to sell more than one hundred thousand units in the United States alone. Katz’s work with Groove Attack largely took him away from his work as a lawyer, a place he was not eager to return.

In 2001 while Katz was legally representing producer extraordinaire Hi-Tek, the opportunity to become Hi-Tek’s manager opened up. With his first management client seeing immediate success as a producer, artist and music executive under his guidance, Katz knew that he could never be just a lawyer again. “Managing Hi-Tek proved to be very exciting. As a manager I had the opportunity to continue the creative work that I began as the CEO of Groove Attack. But it was very challenging to prove to the people around me that someone who was once a lawyer had the creative vision to be a music manager. At first, many people simply didn’t want to see me in my new role,” he explains. The non-believers were quickly converted when Katz expanded his management roster to include the legendary rapper Rakim. “When I officially became Rakim’s manager, people had to accept that I was in the management game. Rakim is one of the most respected people in the music industry. Everyone knows that he’s extremely selective about the people he surrounds himself with.”

As Rakim’s manager, Zach Katz saw tremendous potential to expand his client’s hip-hop icon status into an equally sizeable brand name. Thinking on a global level, Zach Katz successfully identified and forged relationships with corporate entities, who naturally fit the class, integrity and uniqueness of Rakim’s brand. The first of these brand marriages was with Reebok, who created a national Rakim Classic campaign. The campaign was an equally huge success for both Reebok and Rakim. The second branding opportunity came when Zach Katz successfully pitched and landed the Never Blend In campaign with Hennessy. The Never Blend In campaign was a perfect match for Rakim, who’s unmistakable class and style has stood out from its inception. The Hennessy campaign ran for nearly three years via full page advertisements in music’s most credible publications.

As Rakim and Hi-Tek’s manager Katz quickly forged a strong alliance with Aftermath. “Managing Rakim while he was signed to Aftermath, I spent countless nights in the studio with Dr. Dre and witnessed him at work. Many people would pay top dollar to see what I saw and learn what I learned from Dre. I got to see the science behind some of people’s favorite rap records. And I paid very close attention to everything,” explains Zach Katz.

With music producer management as his primary focus from 2002 through 2005, Katz represented some of today’s most notable urban producers. In addition to managing Hi-Tek, he added Denaun Porter p/k/a Konartis of D-12 to his roster. Under Katz’s guidance Denaun went on to produce 50 Cent’s smash single “P.I.M.P.”, G-Unit’s smash single “Stunt 101” along with singles for D-12 and Young Buck. With Katz’s producer clients contributing to worldwide record sales of over 50 million units, Katz felt that things couldn’t be better. This was until he discovered Jonathan “J.R.” Rotem.

“I knew there was something extraordinary about J.R. from the day I first heard his music”, says Zach Katz of his exclusive management client and business partner. “I had never before heard such unique musical ideas”. A classically trained pianist from the age of five, J.R. was a young digital Mozart with a relentless drive to be among the producer elite. “I had never worked with such a focused and humble person before. He put his complete faith into my creative and business guidance and literally worked around the clock,” explains Mr. Katz. The new team’s work quickly paid off as J.R. landed one placement after another, adding up to more than 200 songs produced and placed in just three years. And just as astounding as the number of J.R.’s placements is the versatility of his work. These placements include songs for Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Game, Snoop, Lil Kim, Lil Scrappy, Rick Ross, Fabulous, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Whitney Houston, Paris Hilton, Chamellionare, Natasha Bedingfield, Jojo, Jesse McCartney, Leona Lewis and Ashley Tisdale, just to name a few. J.R. singles highlights include Rihanna’s worldwide #1 smash “S.O.S.”, Rick Ross’s street anthem “Push It To The Limit”, 50 Cent’s single “Best Friend”, Chamellionare’s “Hip-Hop Police” and Ashley Tisdale’s “He Said She Said.” J.R. ended 2006 with the highest honors when MTV named him “Superproducer of 2006” along with only Timbaland, Swizz Beats and Sean Garret.

In 2007, Mr. Katz’s work with J.R. led to the formation of their media company called Beluga Heights, which on the record side has a joint venture label deal with Epic/Sony. “The deal with Epic was designed so that J.R. will be the musical ear and face of the labe,” explains Katz, J.R.’s partner in the venture and the company’s CEO. The multi-million dollar joint venture is off to an amazing start with the commercially successful release of its first artist Sean Kingston. J.R. produced the entire album including the chart-topping smash singles “Beautiful Girls” and “Take You There”. And 2008 looks promising for Beluga Heights as they add two more new artists to their roster.

Always planning his next move, Zach Katz is focused on building Beluga Heights into a full service record label and music publishing company. With the Epic joint venture already in place on the record side Beluga Heights is now entertaining offers from the industry’s biggest music publishing companies who want to be in business with Beluga Heights’ hit factory song writers. “J.R. and I constantly push each other and our team to bring our A-game to the table. We want to surround ourselves with talented artists, writers and executives who are prepared to dedicate the time and energy its going to take to build the creative and business blueprint for the next twenty years,” says Katz. With that kind of vision and dedication, Zach Katz and Beluga Heights are sure to win.

NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal launched last year in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Live mock negotiations evidently hit the spot! See articles on front page of this site for reviews and photos of record and digital distribution deal sessions.

Once again we bring you top music attorneys, this time Todd Cooper and Eric Custer (Todd is back by popular demand, having stood firm in his noble record deal negotiation against the formidable Dina LaPolt).

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But the truth is, as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Now, in Part II (in Los Angeles) of this special series, two top lawyers face off in a live negotiation of a management agreement in NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a management deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal making!

YOU WILL LEARN:

When it’s the right time to make a deal

Major areas of negotiation, including:

• Terms
• Options
• Commissions and how they’re paid
• Sunset clauses
• Deliverables
• Selecting a business manager
• Making the most of the artist-manager agreement

SAE Institute
6565 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(across from Cat & Fiddle, between Highland & Vine)

Click here for map.

COST:

$30 for NARIP Members
$50 for Non-Members

Attention attorneys: receive 2.75 MCLE credits for attending this program for only $40 more. Select Premium Ticket option below.

SPECIAL BONUS:

Because you are purchasing a ticket to NARIP’s program, we offer you an MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. This way, you won’t have to take notes and can refer back to important points in the discussion later. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

PAYMENT METHODS:

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Mail payment to NARIP to P.O. Box 2446, Toluca Lake, CA 91610-2446. Be sure to indicate which program you are paying for, and please include contact details. Mailed payment must be received no later than Tuesday, March 24.
4. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

TODD COOPER, ESQ.

Todd Cooper is Of Counsel with Greenberg Traurig’s Entertainment Practice Group. His practice focuses on music industry, multimedia and intellectual property issues. He is experienced in a wide range of music and multi-media transactions and has represented individuals and companies on intellectual property matters including recording artists, songwriters, producers, personal managers, event producers, models and record executive employment agreements. Mr. Cooper has negotiated recording, distribution, and various other agreements with both major and independent record labels as well as negotiated co-publishing, sub-publishing and songwriter agreements with music publishers and has experience in complex acquisitions and sales of entertainment catalogs.

Previously, Mr. Cooper worked as a recording engineer for a major Los Angeles recording studio, as a road and production manager for various touring artists as well as a personal manager for a prominent Los Angeles-based company. Todd earned his J.D. at Loyola Law School and holds a B.A. in History from UCLA. He is admitted to practice in California.

ERIC CUSTER, ESQ.

Mr. Custer’s practice focuses on all aspects of the music industry, including the negotiation of a wide variety of music related contracts and advising clients as to intellectual property rights in the context of the music business.

Mr. Custer has provided these services for bands, recording artists, producers, songwriters, record companies, music publishing companies, film production companies, performing rights societies, music industry trade organizations and various Internet and new media companies.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO:

www.manatt.com
www.gtlaw.com

NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal launched last year in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco – and all events were packed and a great success. See articles on front page of this site for review and photos.

Once again we bring you top executives, this time record executive Eric Lemasters, KOCH Entertainment’s VP of Business Development, and artist attorney Jay Rosenthal of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe (and top-rated Music Attorney in NARIP’s recent Best of the Biz Survey).

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But the truth is, as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Now, in Part II (in New York) of this special series, Lemasters and Rosenthal face off in a live negotiation of a independent distribution agreement. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most importantly, you will see HOW an independent distribution deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal making!

YOU WILL LEARN

When it’s the right time to make a deal

Major areas of negotiation, including:

• Term of agreement
• Territory of distribution
• Options for renewal and termination of agreement
• Upstream or downstream requirements
• Digital rights
• Distribution fees
• Minimum release requirements
• Breach of agreement clauses
• Obligations of both parties
• Consignment Terms
• Retail Pricing and Terms of Sale
• Retail Discounts for new releases and catalog titles
• Co-op Advertising
• Exclusivity with regard to classes of trade (Web sites, non-traditional retail, online fulfillment, digital downloads)
• Terms of Payment
• Return Reserves
• Return privileges/returns credits (ARP – Average Returns Pricing)
• Freight responsibilities
• SoundScan accessibility
• Administration and other fees
• Liquidation of label negative balances upon termination of agreement
• Terms of termination of agreement


And much more.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

Eric Lemasters, VP of Business Development, KOCH Entertainment
Jay Rosenthal, Esq., Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP

WHEN

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
6:30 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
9:15 p.m. – Program ends

WHERE

SAE Institute
1293 Broadway
9th Floor
New York, NY 10001-2910
(at 34th Street, One Herald Center, Daffy’s building on corner)

Click here for map.

COST

$20 for NARIP Members ($30 AFTER Thursday, March 13 at 5:00 p.m.)
$40 for Non-Members ($50 AFTER Thursday, March 13 at 5:00 p.m.)

SPECIAL BONUS

Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy the program “Art of the Music Deal in NY: The Independent Distribution Agreement.” Because you are purchasing the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $29.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Mail payment to NARIP to P.O. Box 2446, Toluca Lake, CA 91610-2446. Be sure to indicate which program you are paying for, and please include contact details. Mailed payment must be received no later than Thursday, March 13.
4. Walk-up

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

ERIC LEMASTERS


Eric Lemasters is VP of Business Development at KOCH Entertainment Distribution. He is responsible for cultivating new physical and digital distribution agreements and maximizing the company’s digital audio and video initiatives. A seasoned music industry professional, Lemasters’ career highlights include working in key roles ranging from A&R to Sales and Marketing at independent labels such as Energy Records, Mechanic Records and Earache Records. In 1998, he launched his own cutting-edge music label, The Music Cartel, which is still active today. In 2003 he entered the world of merchandising with stints at Merchdirect, Blue Grape Merchandising, and most recently, Bravado Merchandising (a division of the Sanctuary Group), where he held the position of Head of New Media and ran the company’s E-Commerce and M-Commerce initiatives.

JAY ROSENTHAL, ESQ.
Jay Rosenthal is a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP. Mr. Rosenthal’s former and present clients include The Recording Artists’ Coalition, SoundExchange, AFTRA, Thievery Corporation, ESL Music, Drake-Web Records, Mya, Salt N Pepa, DJ Kool, SEV, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Jonathan Edwards, Toshi Reagan, Jimmies Chicken Shack, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, Rare Essence, Bill Kirchen, Butch Cassidy, Riot Act Entertainment, VGR Records, Lloyd Dobler Effect, radio personalities Albie Dee, Mark Kaye, and Bill Curry, comedian Robert Schimmel, monument maker/sculptor Robert Berks, and professional wrestler David “Batista” Bautista.

Mr. Rosenthal is a Professorial Lecturer in Entertainment Law at the George Washington University Law School and is an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at the Washington College of Law at American University. Mr. Rosenthal is a former Sound Exchange Board Member and is presently the Chairman of the SoundExchange Artist Advisory Board. He is a former Copyright Examiner with the U.S. Copyright Office, a Vice?president of the Washington Area Music Association, and an Advisory Board Member of the Songwriter Association of Washington.

Mr. Rosenthal has authored numerous articles on entertainment law and intellectual property, and is a periodic contributor to Billboard and other industry newsletters and journals. He is a Contributing Editor to the journal Entertainment Law & Finance. He has lectured extensively across the country on entertainment industry topics.

Mr. Rosenthal received an Undergraduate Degree in History and a Masters Degree in International Affairs from The American University, a Juris Doctor Degree in Law from The Antioch School of Law (Editor, Antioch Law Journal), and a Master of Law Degree in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center.



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The National Association of Record Industry Professionals
promotes career advancement, education and good will
among record executives.

Ring in the New Year with NARIP!
You’re invited to NARIP’s next brunch
on Sat, Jan 19 in San Francisco.

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE!

All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and pay online by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 18 so we can reserve enough space and order food.

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Countless people have connected to opportunities and jobs, and established new business associates and friends. We look forward to seeing you at our brunch!

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote you if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN:
Saturday, January 19, 2007
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

WHERE:
HiDive
Pier 28-1/2
(on the Embarcadero at Bryant Street)
San Francisco, CA 94111

ADMISSION:
$21 NARIP Members
$26 Non-members

Admission includes all-you-can-eat brunch, tax and tip.

DIRECTIONS:
Click here for map.

PARKING:
Metered parking on the Embarcadero ($.25 for 8 mins) or a lot on Pier 28 right next door (ten dollars). Note: HiDive staff often use this lot without paying and haven’t had any incidents but park there at your own risk.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
N Judah train runs right in front of HiDive on the Embarcadero.

Please Permit NARIP To Assist
With Your Seasonal
Merry-Making Needs

You’re invited to
NARIP’s Holiday Reception
Co-hosted with Digital Coast Foundation

Wed, Dec 12 in Marina del Rey (LA)

Join NARIP’s Los Angeles Chapter to bring in the holiday season!

Every year for the past number of years, NARIP has teamed up with the Digital Coast Foundation to co-host a holiday reception. Digital Coast is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which, in essence is an association of associations in Southern California that leverages resources in the service of community-based arts, technology and education organizations in this region.

Apart from NARIP members, this year you will be able to schmingle with members from Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, the Internet Society, Interactive Television Alliance, LARTA, Pasadena Entretec, Association of Information Technology Professionals, the LARTA Institute and the Technology Council of Southern California.

Payment for this reception goes directly to Digital Coast (not NARIP) and links below will take you to the page where you can register.

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Countless people have connected to opportunities and jobs, and established new business associates and friends. We look forward to seeing you there!

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote you if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN:
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

WHERE:
California Yacht Club
4469 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

ADMISSION:
$25 NARIP Members
$35 Non-members

Includes hearty hors d’oeuvres, cash bar.
All sales are final.

PARKING:
Free

REGISTER NOW:
Digital Coast (rather than NARIP) is taking payment for this event. To register now, click here.

QUESTIONS?
(310) 448-7500 Digital Coast
info@digitalcoast.org

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s brunch on Saturday, November 17th at the Empress Pavilion in Chinatown! We encourage you to join NARIP as we take the Metro to get there. Come meet and greet Los Angeles-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome, you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Countless people have connected to opportunities and jobs, and established new business associates and friends. We look forward to seeing you at our brunch!

1. Online with PayPal or any major credit card – just scroll down. NOTE: you NEED NOT be a PayPal member to use this feature.

2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card.

3. Walk-up (cash only please).

4. Mail a check payable to NARIP and mail to us at Post Office Box 2446, Toluca Lake, CA 91610-2446. Be sure to include your contact details (phone number and email address) and identify the event for which you are paying. Payment must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 15.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:

Well, you can be boring and anti-green and drive, OR you can ride the METRO with your NARIP friends! If you drive, the restaurant validates 1 hour with lunch (free), thereafter cost is $1.20 per hour. Metered street parking also available. If you Go Metro, here’s how it works:

Step 1: View the METRO MAP.
Get a general view of where the closest rail is to you and what connection(s) you will need to get to Union Station’s Gold Line to meet us. The map contains each station’s physical address and P = Parking if available. Option: Drive to your nearest rail station and park to take the metro rail if your station has a park-and-ride option. If there isn’t parking available, then have a friend drop you off, or use the metro trip planner (scroll down) for more options such as bus options that will take you to the metro.
Map Link

Step 2: Use the Metro TRIP PLANNER.
This will give you a step-by-step guide to get from one address to the final destination. Metro station addresses can be obtained from the interactive rail map. Just click on the name of the station for the physical address. This trip planner uses the bus system too, so if you only want to ride the rail, then only put the rail station address in.
Trip Planner Link

Step 3: Confirm your TIME TABLE.
If you like to figure things out on your own….just use the timetables. The rail timetables are 801-901. *Be sure you scroll to the Saturday / Sunday / Holiday time table (first page starts with Mon-Fri), and then check whether it is North or Southbound, refer to the map if you need to!
Time Table Link

Step 4: COST of Metro.
Research fares or any other questions you may have.
More Info link

Feel free to call NARIP and ask for Tara if you have METRO questions!