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AN ATTORNEYS SPECIAL BARNES & THORNBURG LLP ith more than 700 attorneys and other legal professionals, Barnes & Thornburg LLP is one of the largest law firms in the country. The firm serves clients worldwide from offices in Atlanta, California, Chicago, Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Minneapolis, New York, Ohio, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, Texas and Washington, D.C. and Benton James (along with He continues to work with Mann and James’ new label, long-term clients Little Big Town Karlov leads a diverse team Icons & Giants) in areas and Why Don’t We, industry of entertainment attorneys including tours, merchandising, organizations from the Recording who offer clients seasoned branding, recordings, publishing Academy to the Country Music experience and creative and licensing. In 2020, Karlov Association and Big Machine Wsolutions across diverse plat- finalized catalog sales for The Records, and a number of execu- forms in a rapidly evolving Killers and Imagine Dragons. tives in-cluding Sony Nashville’s music industry. He also continues to represent Randy Goodman and UMG Karlov handles music, The Grateful Dead’s catalog in Nashville’s Mike Dungan, Warner sports, advertising and publishing deals and agreements, Music Nashville’s John Esposito, entertainment deals for the as well as doing music work for and Republic Records principals industry’s top live events, companies like MGM Studios Monte and Avery Lipman. artists and organizations. and Beachbody. He recently represented the NFL in its partnership deals JOEL KATZ with Jay-Z and Roc Nation, SENIOR COUNSEL including the 2021 Super ATLANTA OFFICE Bowl halftime show featur- Joel Katz recently joined Barnes ing The Weeknd and the & Thornburg from Greenberg 2020 Super Bowl halftime Traurig, where he was the JASON KARLOV show headlined by Shakira founder of the firm’s Entertain- CHAIR, ENTERTAINMENT, and Jennifer Lopez. ment and Media Practice. Katz MEDIA AND SPORTS He continues to handle has played a profound role in PRACTICE GROUP CHAIR the legal work for longtime shaping the entertainment CENTURY CITY OFFICE clients Bob Dylan, John industry through his work for The founder of B&T’s Enter- Fogerty, T Bone Burnett, music-biz legends, producers, tainment, Media and Sports Michael Bolton, Rufus record companies, concert pro- Practice Group, Chair Jason Wainwright, Billy Mann moters and corporate elite. 32 HITS May 10, 2021 Katz has been a featured and representing artists in mer- speaker at prominent biz events chandising disputes. Outside and has a history of giving back of litigation, Seth routinely to the industry—he endowed counsels clients on various issues and established one of the larg- relating to the Copyright Act, est commercial music programs including fair use, ephemeral use, in the U.S. at the University of digital sampling and the Digital Georgia campus at Kennesaw Millennium Copyright Act. State University. AMANDA TABER STEPHEN WEIZENECKER ASSOCIATE PARTNER CENTURY CITY OFFICE ATLANTA OFFICE Amanda brings her deep knowl- Steve Weizenecker Seth Gold Steve Weizenecker has devoted edge of the music industry and a his career to developing and decade’s worth of experience to utilizing production incentives each client. Her practice encom- across entertainment, including passes all things music, including film, television, music and video publishing, recording, intellectu- games. Steve was the drafts- al-property rights, merchandising, man behind the Georgia Music touring, personal appearances, Investment Act, which provided live events, contract negotiation, the first tax credit in the state endorsements and licensing, as for scoring, musical recording well as content-creation, produc- and touring. He continues to tion and talent agreements. advocate for further expansion Amanda is the lead associ- of production incentives for the ate on music industry mat- music industry, including a pro- ters. With Karlov, she helped posed bill that would allow the manage the music publishing film-tax credit to apply to films catalog sales for The Killers Amanda Taber Lauren Hancock that license compositions created and Imagine Dragons, assisted in Georgia. Steve serves on the with matters for the NFL’s board member of the advocacy board of Georgia Music Accord, partnership with Jay-Z and Roc powerhouse group Songwriters which has the license to create Nation, the 2020 and 2021 of North America (SONA) a Grammy Museum in Atlanta. Super Bowl Halftime shows and and has collaborated with He also serves as Vice Chair of works on diverse matters for the Music Artists Collation. the Governor’s Advisory Com- artists and music executives T Lauren also fought for artists in mittee on Film, Television, Bone Burnett, Michael Bolton, federal COVID-19 relief pack- Music and Interactive Entertain- Rufus Wainwright, Billy Mann ages, assisting with the passage ment. Among his clients are mas- and Benton James. She also of provisions for Mixed Earner sive studios like NBCUniversal represented multiple fitness Unemployment Compensation and ViacomCBS, estates includ- companies in obtaining neces- and SBA’s Shuttered Venue ing the Estate of Isaac Hayes, Jr. sary rights and licenses to use Operating Grants. and entertainment trade asso- music on their platforms. ciations like the Entertainment WILL CRAVER Software Association and Georgia LAUREN HANCOCK ATTORNEY Will Craver Music Partners. ATTORNEY CENTURY CITY OFFICE ATLANTA AND WASHINGTON, Will Craver’s practice ranges degree, Will spent nearly seven SETH GOLD D.C., OFFICES from handling corporate years in the biz, working in the PARTNER Since joining Barnes & Thorn- matters to live events, as areas of talent booking, concert CENTURY CITY OFFICE burg, former Capitol Hill staffer well as reviewing and draft- promotion and artist manage- Seth Gold focuses his music Lauren Hancock has worked ing songwriter and producer ment. He consulted with land practice on litigation and dispute with both the Government agreements, recording deals, developers seeking to build resolution. In his 25-plus-year Affairs and Entertainment teams side-artist and featured- concert venues in determining career, he’s represented clients in to focus her practice on promot- artist agreements, merchandise venue design, obtained strategic a wide variety of litigation where ing artist issues. During her time agreements and assignment partners (venue-management music and the law intersect. This as a counsel in the U.S. Senate, of copyrights. He also advises companies and concert-promo- includes representing authors and she worked on passage of the entertainment clients on music tion companies), and assisted in publishers of musical works in MMA in 2018, and has done licensing, corporate buyouts finding and securing potential copyright-infringement actions, considerable work on rulemaking and other transactions, includ- naming rights sponsors. Will representing a famous rock band for the implementation of the ing the drafting of diverse truly speaks his music clients’ in a lawsuit alleging the band’s new Music Licensing Collective entity formation documents. language, as he has been play- music and lyrics incited violence created under the act. Lauren is a Before pursuing his law ing guitar for the last 20 years. n HITS May 10, 2021 33 AN ATTORNEYS SPECIAL BOYARSKI FRITZ LLP elebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Boyarski Fritz LLP is a leading entertainment and media firm founded by two longtime multi-industry veterans, Jason Boyarski and David Fritz. With a sophisticated and unique publishing agreement for rock practice, the firm applies its expertise to business transactions across icon Joan Jett and the represen- areas including music, digital rights, social media, film, television, fashion, tation of Create Music Group branding, trademarks and corporate transactions. With offices in New York as well as a in various transactions, includ- C ing its new record deals with newly opened office in Beverly Hills, the firm boasts a client roster that includes Grammy Tory Lanez and Snoop Dogg. winners, Fortune 500 companies, Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, chart-topping Boyarski’s roster also includes producers and songwriters, Emmy winners and award-winning technology companies. Paul Oakenfold, Aluna George and the Estate of Antonio Carlos Jobim, as well as such Jason Boyarski vault music, live events and companies as BMG, Disney visual-rights projects. Music, NEON16, Musixmatch, oyarski, a Co-Founding Widely regarded as one of Jingle Punks and AudioUp. B Partner of the firm, has the industry’s leading experts earned industry-wide recogni- in music publishing, Boyarski David Fritz tion as a top entertainment represents some of the biggest lawyer and has been cited as songwriter/producers, includ- o-founding Partner Fritz has an industry expert by legacy ing hitmaker Louis Bell (Post C a varied entertainment and publications like The New Malone, Halsey), ASCAP’s media practice that includes his York Times, Time and The Hol- recent two-time songwriter of longstanding representation of lywood Reporter. Well-rooted the year; Latin music’s #1 pro- Marc Anthony and counseling in deal-making, Boyarski’s ducer, Tainy (J. Balvin, Bad his Magnus Media family of practice is a product of his Bunny, Selena Gomez); chart- companies—which includes a diverse background, including topper Frank Dukes (Camilla booking agency, sports agency, his past post as the SVP/GM Cabello, The Weeknd); Ayo television and film-production of Warner Chappell. (Cardi B’s “WAP”); and song- Boyarski has served as writers Xplicit