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Allen Grubman, Neil Portnow, Michael Reinhart, 2018

(L-R) President's Merit Award winner Allen Grubman, Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow, 2018 Entertainment Law Initiative Service Award recipient Michael Reinert

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Entertainment Law Initiative Event Honors Music Advocates, Present & Future

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Amidst a critical moment in the fight for music creators' rights, the Recording Academy celebrates the difference-makers in entertainment law
Nate Hertweck
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Jan 26, 2018 - 5:29 pm

The Recording Academy's Entertainment Law Initiative event and scholarship presentation turned the focus of GRAMMY Week toward today's crucial creator's rights issues. As the nation's preeminent gathering for entertainment attorneys, this event provides an annual opportunity to unite a community of professionals, honor those doing excellent work in the field, and award scholarships to outstanding law students via a writing competition.

2018 ELI awards presentation
2018 Entertainment Law Initiative Event

"I think Entertainment Law Initiative manifests, generally, what we do as an Academy," says Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow. "We look retrospectively, and we honor our past, we study our past, and we learn from our past. But we also are there to nurture and develop the next generations of music makers, but also everybody that's in the infrastructure of the music business."

This year's event honored two such difference-makers in the entertainment law community. First, Michael Reinert, a partner at Fox Rothschild, LLP, received the 2018 ELI Service Award for advancing and supporting the music community through service. Reinert's award presentation served as a highlight of the ceremony, complete with a hilarious mock biopic movie trailer (Michael Reinert is "Michael Reinert") and a personalized congratulations video from GRAMMY-winner Stevie Wonder. Who says lawyers don't know how to have fun?

"It's very humbling and very overwhelming to be considered in the group of names of these people who have come before me, so many of whom I've grown up admiring, almost in awe of," Reinert says, mentioning previous honorees Julie Swidler and Elliot Groffman as predecessors whom he respects.

Additionally, Allen Grubman, a partner at Grubman, Shire, Meiselas, & Sacks, P.C. received the Recording Academy President's Merit Award in recognition of his many years protecting the interests of creators.

"I want to thank the Recording Academy for this honor," Grubman said humbly, before joking, "Most of what I get are complaints." He also lauded the support the Academy provides to young aspiring lawyers by way of the writing competition scholarship program.

Grubman also put his money where his mouth was, pledging $25,000 toward a scholarship, a generous contribution and proof that his diligent service on creator's behalf aligns beautifully with the Entertainment Law Initiative.

"We do something very important… We bring joy to the world," Grubman said, closing his remarks. "This is a very special thing that I do, that we all do. And I just want to say, I believe the entertainment area is just beginning for lawyers."

Sure enough, this declaration is more than validated by the entrants to this year's writing competition, who all exemplify the possibilities of progress.

Chosen as this year's writing competition winner, Rebecca Pollack, a law student at Lewis & Clark School of Law, received a $10,000 scholarship for her winning paper titled "Innovation or Exploitation: Is It Time To Update The DMCA Safe Harbors?"

"The copyright office is dealing with the big debate going on between copyright holders and online service providers about the big safe harbors and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and whether they are effective," Pollack explains. "My paper basically looks at one of the big issues underlying it, which is these technical measures and finding some clarity around those."

Renowned attorney and Entertainment Law Initiative Program Chair Ken Abdo invited Pollack to the stage to discuss the core problem addressed, as well as the proposed solution, outlined in her paper.

Runner-up Megan Abner, a student Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship for her paper, "Effects Of The FCC's 'Internet Freedom' On The Music Industry And Potential Collaborative Solutions."

The imaginative work of bright students intimates a smiling future for entertainment law. However, no one says it will be easy. Reinert had some simple yet powerful advice to add for aspiring entertainment attorneys:

"When you hit a brick wall, keep going."

As a testament to this spirit of perseverance, New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the event's keynote speaker, spoke of how his deep passion for jazz music has driven him to go the extra mile on the legal front to support music creation, protection, and preservation, including preserving and digitizing a collection of Louis Armstrong recordings and cracking down on live concert ticket scalping, ultimately reforming the system to add criminal consequences to high-volume ticketbot offenders.

The Recording Academy echoes this support and drive to enact change and has been working tirelessly to enact legislative change to modernize creator's rights policies.

"We've been working for years to get a bill that will work that can pass, that addresses our issues and contemporize the whole process of licensing and all the attendant elements," says Portnow.

In fact, those efforts are coming to fruition in real time. Immediately following the event, Portnow joined a group of music creators at a judiciary committee meeting to testify at a hearing titled "Music Policy Issues: A Perspective From Those Who Make It." Portnow will be backed at thearing's continued deliberations by GRAMMY-winning performers Booker T. Jones and Dionne Warwick, GRAMMY-nominated artist Aloe Blacc, GRAMMY-nominated songwriter Tom Douglas, and platinum-selling producer/engineer Mike Clink.

Now, more than ever, is a critical time in the fight for music creators' rights, and the Entertainment Law Initiative continues to remind the music community of both the difference one devoted individual can make and the great strength we have when we join our voices together.

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2018 GRAMMY Week: Entertainment Law Event Selects Scholarship Winners

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Rebecca Pollack's paper on the DMCA and runner-up Megan Abner's on the FCC win the 20th annual ELI writing competition and scholarship
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Jan 18, 2018 - 12:37 pm

On Jan. 18, the Recording Academy announced the winners of the 20th annual Entertainment Law Initiative writing competition.

Entertainment Law Initiative Luncheon Highlights

Rebecca Pollack of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., wrote the winning paper for this year's competition, titled "Innovation Or Exploitation: Is It Time To Update The DMCA Safe Harbors?" Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbors were meant to protect passive internet hosts but fail to address repetitive uploading of infringing material to online platforms. Pollack receives the scholarship's top award of $10,000.

The runner-up is Megan Abner from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City. Her paper was on "Effects Of The FCC's 'Internet Freedom' On The Music Industry And Potential Collaborative Solutions." She will receive a $2,500 scholarship.

The GRAMMY Week event will be held on Jan. 26 at Worldwide Plaza in New York and is the nation's preeminent gathering for entertainment attorneys. It provides a forum to explore important legal issues, honor outstanding practitioners and support the next generation of arts lawyers through the ELI writing and scholarship competition.

Both Abner and Pollack will attend GRAMMY Week's Entertainment Law Initiative event, which will include a keynote from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and service award presentations to attorneys Allen Grubman and Michael Reinert. The former will receive a Recording Academy President's Merit Award from Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow in recognition of his many years of work protecting the interest of music creators. A small number of tickets remain available for the luncheon.

The ELI writing competition is co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.

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Sources indicate the House Judiciary Committee chairman and ranking member are at work on an umbrella copyright bill, a step away from achieving comprehensive copyright reform (at last)
Philip Merrill
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Mar 2, 2018 - 12:22 pm

"Hearing rumors that House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking Democrat Jerry Nadler are going to introduce a new comprehensive music bill soon! That's a big signal that Congress could actually pass music licensing reform this year." — Conversations In Advocacy #11

Suspense is building that the music community hopes will soon be fulfilled. Tips indicate that Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Jerry Nadler, the committee's top Democrat, are putting together copyright reform legislation that would consolidate several separate music reform bills, which have gained unprecedented unified support, into one bill.

The rumored bill is expected to have the support of not just the music community, but also many digital platforms, broadcasters and stakeholder organizations.

The bill also comes on the heels of a Jan. 26 field hearing by the Committee during GRAMMY Week, where Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow proposed the idea of comprehensive legislation, outlining to lawmakers how current laws — including complicated regulations dating back before the internet — do not protect the interest of modern-day music creators.

Portnow closed his testimony by imploring, "Just as creators can't be compartmentalized, neither should music legislation. There are issues of consensus that would help all creators, and they're ready to be marked up by this committee. … I urge this committee to mark up one comprehensive music licensing package of the consensus issues."

Fulfilling on a vision of copyright reform first proposed by @RecordingAcad, the music industry has banded together to support key music legislation.

Join our efforts and tell Congress to support comprehensive music reform: https://t.co/9tK7wAVF5L #SupportMusic pic.twitter.com/OEVxnUJ474

— GRAMMY Advocacy (@GRAMMYAdvocacy) February 18, 2018

Other witnesses on the panel spoke specifically to those consensus issues that are rumored to be included in the Goodlatte package. GRAMMY-nominated songwriters Aloe Blacc and Tom Douglas spoke up at the hearing on behalf of the Music Modernization Act of 2017, a complex bill that would improve songwriters' rate standard, create a blanket licensing resource to comprehensively track song ownership and grant writers a fair share of digital mechanical royalties.

"This is a defining time for music licensing reform," Blacc testified. "I can tell you we are in desperate need of change if we're going to protect what is arguably America's greatest export: music."

The 1962 hit "Green Onions" by Booker T. and The M.G.'s was made 10 years before 1972 federal copyright legislation, leaving witness Booker T. Jones out in the cold with regard to getting paid when services use his GRAMMY Hall Of Fame recording. The CLASSICS Act would close this loophole for pre-1972 recordings, improving life for senior musicians while simplifying licensing administration for services.

"This uncertainty is bad for artists, and it's bad for the digital music services," Jones said.

The Allocation for Music Producers Act (AMP) would bring music producers into formal copyright law for the first time. Decorated producer Mike Clink spoke at the hearing about how it feels to lack copyright protection. "In fact, they are the only individuals directly involved in the creation of music to lack copyright protections," he said about producers.

While these three independent bills form the essential framework for an umbrella bill, they are not the only reforms rumored to be considered. For example, language from the Fair Play Fair Pay Act establishing willing buyer/willing seller compensation standards across all digital platforms is expected to be included as well.

At the GRAMMY Week field hearing, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) spoke for many of his colleagues — and all the witnesses on the panel — when he beseeched Chairman Goodlatte to undertake the big step of combining years of the committee's work into a single, consolidated bill.

The MMA and CLASSICS Acts have also recently been introduced in the Senate. The feeling among music creators that there is momentum for change, at last, is strong.

Testifying on Jan. 26 alongside Portnow, multiple GRAMMY winner Dionne Warwick concluded with a wish shared by many.

"As I once sang [notably in 1967], I say a little prayer for you," she said referring to her GRAMMY-nominated hit "I Say A Little Prayer." "And [I] hope that this is the year when all those who write, sing, record, and produce the songs we love are recognized and appropriately compensated for their work."

Now that the music industry is speaking with one voice, please stand with us and let your representatives know how you feel

"Conversations in Advocacy" is your weekend digital tip sheet on music advocacy and the policies that affect music makers and their craft. New installments post every Friday.

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Nov 28, 2017 - 3:15 pm

This morning, many of the world's best music creators woke up to some life-changing news: a GRAMMY nomination. For Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow, the results were equally exciting.

"I was very pleased," Portnow told Billboard, calling the nominations "a wonderful reflection on our organization and how relevant and in touch and savvy our voting members are."       

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Indeed, the nominations for the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards represent the wide range of today's musical landscape, partially as a result of the Recording Academy's continued efforts to diversify its membership.

"We have taken a concerted effort to making sure that the voting membership of the Academy is representative of the creative community," Portnow says. "We've got 84 categories. Are we well-represented with membership from all of them? Are we engaging them? Are they participating? We look at that regularly and to the extent that we find there are areas that need more attention, we'll do that." 

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One clear example of the multicultural and genre-diverse nature of this year's noms is the first-ever dual Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year nomination going towards a predominantly Spanish-language song; namely, "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, featuring Justin Bieber.

"It's a reflection of the times, something we're very proud of," says Portnow. "I would say that we have to be careful in the sense that [the nominations] didn't happen solely because of its enormous popularity and acceptance. That's undeniable, but through the lens of our folks who listen to that record as a musician or a producer and listen to all those elements that got fused together and the production elements, the instrumentation and the diversity there, from a craft standpoint, it's an extraordinary record."

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Philip Merrill
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Dec 27, 2018 - 11:59 am

Performing rights organization ASCAP announced on Dec. 18 that it is donating to MusiCares to support music's creators including those "affected by the recent wildfires in northern and southern California" needing help with food, shelter and replacement of instruments or equipment.

"We are truly grateful for the support and ongoing partnership of ASCAP," said Recording Academy and MusiCares President/CEO Neil Portnow. "Their work on behalf of music people is vital, and their generosity to the music community is equally strong. This donation demonstrates how the music industry works together to take care of their own."

"We have all been stunned by the devastation caused by the California fires and the heartache and loss suffered by our members who reside there," said ASCAP Chairman of the Board and President Paul Williams, winner of three GRAMMY awards as a songwriter. "ASCAP has always been an advocate for music creators, and faced with these terrible circumstances, we have their backs. We are pleased to work with MusiCares to get help to those who need it most."

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— ASCAP (@ASCAP) December 18, 2018

Members may make disaster relief requests by contacting MusiCares toll-free at 1.800.687.4227.

For those wishing to donate, the "Gift Designation" choice at MusiCares' donation page offers "Disaster Relief" as a selection.

"The music community knows that it can turn to MusiCares in times of distress," said ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews. "They have the organization and the infrastructure necessary to respond to these horrible events and help members of the music community in times of need. We're glad to work with MusiCares once again to ensure that our funds reach the people most affected by the fires."

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