Legal Analyst, Rights Enforcement

This is a Full Time Job

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Legal Analyst, Rights Enforcement

A little bit about our team:

Warner Music's Center of Excellence for Shared Services, opened in 2017, is the home to the financial, legal and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to our US Recorded Music and Publishing businesses. The Nashville center embodies the innovative and creative spirit that stems from the company's deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities.

The Legal Department is responsible for enforcing WMG's rights in the recorded music catalog repertoire controlled by its U.S. record labels, managing litigations involving WMG's recorded music catalog rights in conjunction with WMG's corporate litigation in-house counsel, fielding inquiries and claims from third parties, researching WMG's recorded music catalog rights, filing applications to register copyrights in and to WMG's recorded music repertoire, and managing WMG's relationships with the labor unions with which WMG's U.S. record labels have collective bargaining agreements.

Members of the Legal Department work closely with employees in the Legal and Business Affairs at the record labels, Finance, Production, Operations, New Media, and Marketing departments of each label client to fulfill the above-referenced responsibilities for the recordings and record those labels release.

Why this could be your next big break:

This is a great opportunity to make an immediate and significant contribution to a growing legal team. The candidate hired to fill this position will support the Rights Enforcement Senior Associate. The Rights Enforcement Team is responsible for developing strategies for identifying third parties who may be infringing upon WMGs intellectual property rights, investigating potential infringements, and devising strategies for addressing infringements in order to stop infringing activity and secure appropriate compensation from any infringing parties.

Here you'll get to:
• Investigate and analyze potential infringements of WMG's intellectual property rights, including conducting due diligence, rights confirmation, and collecting/preserving evidence;
• Assist with drafting sending take-down notices, cease and desist letters, and other correspondence necessary in the pursuit of potential third party infringers;
• Liaise with other WMG business units and departments, outside counsel, and third parties in connection with affirmative infringement claims;
• Monitor communications for DMCA notices of copyright infringement and direct to appropriate internal contacts.
• Organize and manage related documents and spreadsheets and provide general administrative assistance;
• Assist with the tracking and reporting of enforcement matters to various internal departments;
• Become knowledgeable and well acquainted with the trademarks enforced on behalf of internal clients and the authorized licensees of any such trademark;
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