Associate Music Counsel, Publishing and Rights Management, YouTube
Job Summary
Job Description
- JD, LLB, or equivalent
- 3+ years attorney experience
- Experience with commercial agreements
- Digital licensing agreement experience
- Admitted to the bar
- Experience with digital music licensing
- Ability to travel
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- JD, LLB, equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of attorney-level experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm.
- Experience with commercial agreements, digital licensing agreements, agreements or support of multi-territorial licensing entities.
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with digital music licensing agreements.
- Ability to travel as needed.
About the job
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
The Music Publishing team is responsible for commercial and product issues related to Publishing, PROs, Rights Management (e.g., infrastructure, payments, reporting), collection societies, and regulatory/statutory support.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.Responsibilities
- Draft and review music and video content licensing agreements with content creators, distributors, record labels, music publishers and publishing collection societies across all Google products, primarily for YouTube and related products.
- Respond promptly to legal requests from business development, sales, licensing, product, marketing, and other business clients.
- Advise product team clients, as well as finance and other company departments on legal issues and risks, regulatory matters, complex agreement structures, approval processes, company policies and procedures, intellectual property and, agreement strategy.
- Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes.
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