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 STEVE GORDON is an entertainment attorney and consultant based in New York City specializing in the production, distribution and financing of music, television, documentaries, feature films, and digital entertainment projects. Steve also operates a music clearance service for producers, filmmakers and labels who use music in films, concert programs, documentaries and compilations. He is author of the book, The Future of the Music Business and serves as an adjunct professor at The New School where he teaches a course on the music industry. He recently won a Fulbright Scholarship and delivered a series of lectures on copyright law and the music business as a Fulbright Scholar at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.BOOK  The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies (2nd ed. Hal Leonard 2008) provides a legal and business roadmap to artists, music industry professionals, entrepreneurs and
attorneys. It focuses on the rules pertaining to the
music business and the new digital music industry, how
artists and entrepreneurs can use the new technologies to
succeed, new business models, plus interviews with
artists and entrepreneurs who are inventing the future of
the music business. Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, wrote the Forward to the book and Bob Clarida, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, edited.
INTERNET RADIO SHOW and BLOG Steve hosts
an Internet radio show at MyRealBroadcast.com.
The program focuses on new digital business models and opportunities, and features
interviews with music executives, entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, attorneys and journalists. You can
read Steve's blogs on recent music law and business issues
at TEACHING AND SCHOLARSHIP Steve is proud to announce that in 2006, The Fulbright Foundation approved his application for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. The Program provides airfare and honorarium to US scholars to lecture at foreign universities. Steve was invited by Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, to lecture in their masters program for Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment in November
2007.
During the Fall of 2007, Steve served as an adjunct faculty member at The New School. He taught a course based on his book in the Jazz and Contemporary Music department.
From 2003 to 2006, Steve served as an Instructor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His lectures focused on the latest legal and business developments in the music business, major record company initiatives, and new business models made possible by digital technologies.
NBC VIDEO INTERVIEW NBC News recently interviewed Steve on the legality of sales of pre-loaded ipods on eBay. Click here to see the segment. NPR INTERVIEW National Public Radio interviewed Steve concerning his solution for the music industry's woes. To listen, click on the graphic below and then: "Part 3: Taxing the Internet." Paying
for Music in the Internet Age SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS On May 31, 2007 Steve addressed the Future of Music conference in Denmark. Click here to see and listen to his lecture.Steve recently lectured at Wharton Business School with DJ Spooky. Steve moderated a seminar at Columbia University Law School titled "Music Sampling and Derivative Works in the Digital Era." For the program description, please click here. You can listen to the seminar by clicking on myrealbroadcast.com.Steve moderated a special forum on the convergence of music and fashion titled "Magical Mystery Tour: Music's Impact on Fashion" at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). To view the introduction click here. He also presented a seminar at Columbia University, titled "Should Digital Music Be Free?" for the PowerPoint presentation accompanying this seminar. CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION CREDITS FOR ATTORNEYS The Association of the Bar of New York City is offering video and audio tapes of Steve's seminars at CUNY Graduate Center for CLE credits to attorneys. For more information or to place an order, please call Tamura Watson at the Bar Association at (212) 382-4708. CLIENTS His clients
range from major entertainment companies such as MTV, Music Choice, and Sony BMG to independent producers, artists, and entrepreneurs. For his client list, please see Additional Information.
PUBLISHED
ARTICLES Steve also
frequently contributes articles on entertainment and
copyright law to Entertainment Law and Finance,
and serves on that publication’s Board of Editors.
To read a comprehensive article on
licensing music and other copyrighted materials click on "Tips
for Clearing Music for Television and Motion
Pictures." To read his
other published articles, click on Recent
Publications. EXPERIENCE
AT SONY From 1991 to
2002, Steve served as Director of Business Affairs at Sony Music. There he handled the clearances for thousands of music videos for Columbia
and Epic Records, and hundreds of long form music
documentaries and TV concerts with artists such as Bruce
Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Mariah Carey,
J.Lo, Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion and many others.
As the principal lawyer for Automatic, Sony's
in-house production company, he oversaw all business and
legal matters for the music based TV series "Sessions
at West 54th" on PBS (and now on TRIO), and "Live
by Request" on A&E. INTERACTIVE
READING LIST Steve has
prepared an interactive reading list on digital music and
video law and new business models. Please click on "Future
of the Entertainment Industry Reading List" m/OD
MUSIC ON DEMAND TM Steve is
Senior Vice President of Content, Licensing &
Acquisition for MUSIC ON DEMAND, INC. m/OD
is a partnership between the cable TV industry and the
music business to create a subscription video-on-demand
service airing music programming on cable, and selling
CDs, DVDs and merchandise to the subscribers of the
service.
MORE ABOUT STEVE GORDON
Steve was
recently featured in Pitchfork.
You are invited to view Steve's profile in
celebrityaccess.com, and see the December
2005 issue of Music
Connection Magazine for an interview about his practice
and his book, The Future of the Music Business. |
