32nd Annual Cutting Edge CE Conferences & Events August 21 – 24, 2024 InterContinental Hotel New Orleans

Cutting Edge Entertainment Law Seminar?·?Music Business Sessions?·?Film, Interactive and Creative Industries?·?NewWorks Artists Showcase?·?Roots Music Gathering · Cutting Edge Songwriters Camp

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New Orleans:?The entertainment industry faces many challenges. Its various segments (music, film, games, sports, media, fashion) each face career and legal complexities. But no segment is as challenging or complex as the music business. "What's Past is Prologue" in the music business speaks to understanding custom/precedent, gaining knowledge, and securing connections. With these, an artist, lawyer, or professional may gain the influence needed to move from one market level to another.

The following includes:

• Complete Schedule: 32nd Cutting Edge Entertainment Law Seminar
• Music Business Topics?
• Cutting Edge Songwriters Camp
• NewWorks Artist Showcase

Free to the public

• NewWorks Artist Showcase Festival performance allows artists' music to be their best publicity.
• The Roots Music Gathering is "still committed to the Roots" and will host oral histories, lecture demonstrations, the Ultimate Sideman Presentation, and panel discussions on roots music.
• Workshops for Creatives provide creative entrepreneurs with?hands-on assistance from experts.

Cutting Edge uses its forum to produce and promote new activities throughout the year.

32nd Cutting Edge Entertainment Law Seminar

August 22 – 24 will address closely watched legal topics affecting the techo-tainment of AI to music ownership in modern entertainment. Select presentations on sources of entertainment royalties, audiobooks/narration/podcasts, and essential agreements to consider for film projects will round out the program.

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32nd?Annual CUTTING EDGE ENTERTAINMENT LAW SEMINAR August 22, 23, 24, 2024 New Orleans InterContinental New Orleans Hotel

Futurecasting (not Forecasting) Your Clients Legal Needs "What's Past is Prologue"

Covering

"AI – Publishing – Trademark – Film Agreements – Literary Publishing –? Business Consideration - ?Transactional Issues"

2024 Entertainment Law Seminar Speakers (Subject to change)

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• Jeff Brabec, Esq., Senior Vice President Legal and Business Affairs, Board member The MLC, co-author "Music, Money, and Success," Adjunct Professor USC
• ?Todd Brabec Esq., former ASCAP Executive Vice President, co-author "Music, Money and Success," Adjunct Professor USC
• Brian Caplan, Esq.,?Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt, LLP
• Darryl Cohen, Esq.,?Cohen, Cooper Estep & Allen, Atlanta, GA
• Wallace Collins, Esq., New York, NY
• David Dalia, Esq.,?New Orleans, LA
• Judith DeFraites, Esq.,?New Orleans, LA
• Tom DeSavia, SVP A&R, Concord Music Publishing
• Stephen J. Easley, Esq., Law Office of Stephen J. Easley, Esq.
• Hillel Frankel, Esq., McGlinchey, Nashville, TN
• Edgar "Dino" Gankendoff, Esq.,?Provosty & Gankendoff, LLC, NOLA?
• Kimberly Haynes, Esq.?Haynes Johnson, LLC, Baton Rouge, LA
• Jessica Kaye, Esq., Kaye & Mills, Los Angeles, CA
• Scott Keniley, Esq.,?Keniley Kumar, Atlanta, GA
• Peter A. Koziol, Esq., Assouline Bertowe, Boca Raton, FL
• Kevin Mills, Esq., Kaye & Mills, Los Angeles, CA
• Michael Olsen, Esq, Counsel, LLP, San Francisco, CA
• Eugene Radcliff, Esq. Baton Rouge, LA
• Nadine Ramsey, Esq., New Orleans, LA
• William Ramsey, Esq.,?Ramsey Law Firm, New Orleans, LA
• Stan Soocher, Esq., Editor-in-Chief, Entertainment Law & Finance, Professor Emeritus, College of Arts & Media, University of Colorado Denver
• Kirk T. Schroder, Esq., Schroder Davis Law Firm, PLC, Charlottesville, VA
• Marc Stollman, Esq., Stollman Law, Miami, FL?
• Christoper Szapary, Esq.,?Provosty & Gankendoff, LLC, New Orleans, LA
• Vernon W.?Thomas, Esq.?Thomas Law Firm, New Orleans, LA
• Charlotte Towne, Esq., Charlotte Towne Law, Miami, FL
• Brittney Trigg, Esq., BTRIGGLAW, PLLC, Miami, FL
• Suzette Toledano, Esq., Toledano Entertainment & Arts Law, New Orleans, LA
• Matthew Wilson, Esq., Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, GA
• Gregg R. Zegarelli, Esq., Ventures Law Group, PC, Pittsburgh, PA

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Cutting Edge CE Conference's Music Business Sessions breaches the gaps in attendees' knowledge through panel sessions discussing essential topics presented by industry professionals who understand music industry customs. Cutting Edge speakers are knowledgeable and accessible.

***Coming Soon***

Keynote Speaker

2024?Music Business Topics/Events

• Your Music Matters: Recording, Engineering, Producing Important Items to Consider, Common Mistakes
• Songwriting: Do it with purpose; Metadata how to understand it value; Writing for Placement, Publishing
• Record Labels are still an Important Part of the Music Industry
• Artist Development: Live Performance Mastery
• Management: The Right Way, Wrong Way
• Booking and Touring in the Secondary Market
• What are DSPs (Digital Service Providers) and Digital Distributors, and what do they do to earn the artist's money
• Getting your Songs in Movies and TV – Springboard to Success
• Esports panel/demo
• Cutting Edge Film Meetup and Film Panel

New Orleans: Cutting Edge CE Conferences and Events has organized the Cutting Edge Songwriters Camp?from August 21 to 24?as a prelude to the conference. It is designed to complement the Conference activities. The Camp is a result of our collaborations and consultations with Michael Dixon from Soda Rock Music, the multiplatinum-selling songwriter Jim McCormick (2021 Country Music Song of the Year nominee), Stephen Easley, Esq. from Buddy Holly Foundation, and Lilli Lewis, songwriter and advisor. Expanding to encompass additional segments of the creative sphere, we are partnering with DAWn Audio to produce:

Producers Cohort: Beat Makers

writing collectively and remotely

powered by DAWn Audio

?The Camp is by invitation only; an interested songwriter can email us HERE.

More on the Cutting Edge Songwriters Camp is?coming soon.

NewWork Artist Showcase (open to the public)

A band's best publicity is performance. Bring on the Bands! Play for the professionals. Also, these artists can attend panels and network at the conference.?Including the New Orleans Songwriters Camp…

• Selected artists presented in local venues
• Apply HERE

Film, Interactive, and Creative Industries (open to the public)

• Meetups
• Metaverse Demonstrations
• Esport Presentations
• Creatives Presentations

Roots Music Gathering – Cutting Edge is Still Committed to the Roots!

Roots Music, as used here, means music, its history, and cultural practices that reflect communities' traditions. The Roots Music Gathering is about the world communities that, like New Orleans, produce music as a part of their cultural expression. We recognize sustaining cultural activities in an in-demand neighborhood is the new struggle of Cultural Bearers. This year honor artists, businesses, and legacies contributing?to our shared?musical journey.?

• Oral Histories
• Presentations
• Lifetime Achievement Award
• Music Influencer Award

Coming soon! Panel sessions and presentations. Look for additional events and songwriter activities.

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Important information and dates

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Interested in being a Sponsor email HERE

Interested in Speaking? Have a panel idea? June 1 deadline. Email HERE

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Artist Showcase Application ends – July 1

Rates Increase – May?27

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Conference hotel rates - $95?access HERE

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Cutting Edge occurs August 21?– 24, 2024, at the New Orleans InterContinental Hotel and venues throughout Downtown New Orleans.

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Cutting Edge would like to thank our 2023 Friends and Supporters: Mayor LaTonya Cantrell, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser, Clerk of Civil District Court Chelsey Richard Napoleon, New Orleans City Council, Mayor's Office of Cultural Economy, New Orleans Tourism and Culture Fund, Louisiana Entertainment Office, New Orleans & Company, New Orleans Business Alliance, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, New Orleans Jazz Museum, Ashe Cultural Arts Center. Industry: American Federation of Musicians Local 174-496, Recording Academy Memphis Chapter, WeGet Artists, ReverbNation. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, 2112 Music Incubator Chicago, gitmit, Entertainment Law Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association, Rabadash Recording Studios, We The Collective, New Orleans Jazz Museum, Henry Turner, Jr. Listening Room Foundation, The McKinley Studios, Media: Music Connection Magazine, OffBeat Magazine, New Orleans Agenda, BreakThru Media, Shive Magazine Business: SignsNow, Richards Disposal, Metro Service Group, InterContinental New Orleans Hotel and our Recent Past Venue Partners, House of Blues, Hi Ho Lounge, Santos Bar, Cafe Istanbul, The Art Garage, Allways Lounge, Buffa's, Sidney's Saloon, Carnaval Lounge, New Orleans Jazz Museum, and Julius Kimbrough's Prime Example Jazz Club, Sweet Lorraine Jazz Club, Zony Mash, The Goat, Ashe Cultural Arts Center.

Our Special Thanks to our speakers, filmmakers, and artists who always give so much to everyone in attendance and New Orleans.

Eric L Cager

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