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About Marc Jacobson

Selected by Chambers USA every year since 2005, The Best Lawyers in America since 2019, and Super Lawyers since 2008 as one of the top Entertainment Lawyers in NYC,  Jacobson built his unique practice by focusing on his two passions: music and film.

In the music area, he represented the estates of George & Ira Gershwin, Elvis Presley, and Duke Ellington and important songwriters such as Jimmy Webb, Shakira, James Brown, and Holland-Dozier-Holland. He represented the digital jukebox industry in its negotiations for performing rights, as well as the Cheer and Spirit industry regarding its use of music. He handles sophisticated music publishing and recording transactions, as well as negotiations to license the use of music by non-traditional music users.

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  • I am asked this question all the time.  My answer is registration at the Copyright Office is much better, and significantly more valuable. With apologies to my friends and colleagues who work at the WGA, I wouldn’t bother registering at the WGA East or West,......

  • With more songwriters administering their own catalogs, and the growth of the music publishing industry generally, songwriters and publishers should be aware of their responsibilities and opportunities for sub-publishing. It may be even more important to know the consequences of not having a subpublisher on......

  • Establishes Group Registration for Works on an Album of Music (“GRAM”) By Marc Jacobson, Esq. Under a new rule, the US Copyright Office will allow an applicant to register between two and twenty musical works or sound recordings, found in an album, with one application.......

  • Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was enacted in response to a very difficult decision made in May 1995 by a trial court judge in Nassau County, NY.  Nassau County was, and probably still is to a large degree, a bedroom community for New......

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