Happy Holidays from the AIMP

 Happy holidays to all our members and guests and best wishes for a prosperous New Year.  The LA Chapter will return with our annual "A View From The Top" luncheon panel on February 16th.

• Legislation - Two bills; The house version, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and the senate version, PROTECT IP Act are likely to be voted on by congress in 2012. The bills, which allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders to seek court orders against websites operated for the purpose of intellectual property theft do have opposition. This opposition comes largely from companies such as Google who profit handsomely from monetizing online searches and ads on sites hosting popular content, whether legal or not, and various organizations supported by/affiliated with such companies including EFF, Public Knowledge and other “information wants to be free” advocates. 
• You Tube Licensing Agreement  - The NMPA and HFA bring Independent Music Publishers a groundbreaking licensing opportunity with YouTube. Think of this as a dynamic synchronization license based on advertising generated by user uploaded videos using your music. Participation is available to all independent publishers in the U.S. who can opt in to the agreement between November 17, 2011 and January 16, 2012. To learn more about opting in go to www.youtubelicenseoffer.com. To view the full press release click here.
• Pan European Licensing Update - Digital music services launching in the EU continue to prefer single societies rather than acquiring digital composition rights through the local society network. A variety of organizations are providing services to music publishers (see the AIMP article on Pan European Licensing here). STIM is making a direct appeal to Indie Publishers through its non-exclusive WOI licensing platform initiative. To learn more: www.STIM.se.
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Alisa Coleman / ABKCO

Alisa Coleman, SVP, ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., Executive in Charge of Soundtracks,  has been with ABKCO for over twenty-five years.  Alisa oversees business development and global licensing of ABKCO’s music publishing and record catalog for all media and, in her capacity as Executive in Charge of Soundtracks, develops business relationships with entertainment companies to manufacture and distribute physical and digital soundtrack releases worldwide.

ABKCO's catalog includes all the Rolling Stones compositions and master recordings including "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Jumping Jack Flash".  ABKCO owns all of the compositions and controls the recordings of Sam Cooke ("You Send Me", "Having A Party"), as well as Bobby Womack’s compositions including "Breezin'".  ABKCO also owns recordings and compositions by The Kinks, The Animals (recordings), Marianne Faithfull, Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell and many other Cameo Parkway artists.

Its soundtrack division has released recordings from the critically acclaimed Wes Anderson films - the Oscar Nominated score from Fantastic Mr. Fox and the soundtrack to The Darjeeling Ltd both by Alexandre Desplat,  acclaimed director Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World with music by Beck and Nigel Godrich, the Justin Lin franchise hit soundtrack  to Fast Five, the Paul Rudd comedy Our Idiot Brother, the Yankee All-Star charity album recorded by Nick Swisher Believe, the television soundtrack to Californication and many others. 

Alisa was instrumental in the negotiations of various sampling/derivative rights requests including “We Belong Together” the #1 song of the decade by Mariah Carey (BMI, Top Urban Song of the Year) which includes a sample use of Bobby Womack’s “If You Think You’re Lonely Now”  as well as Donny Osmond’s number one UK chart hit "Breeze On By" - a derivative of Bobby Womack's "Breezin”.

The most recent synchronization deals negotiated by Alisa include: “Let’s Twist Again” and “The Wah-Watusi” in The Help, “Sympathy for the Devil” for Dior fragrances, The Rolling Stones “She Said Yeah” for a Chanel Bleu commercial directed by Martin Scorsese, “Mama Said” for a Nissan commercial, “Gimme Shelter” for the Call of Duty – Black Ops trailer, “You Send Me” for Estee Lauder’s Beautiful campaign, American Idol’s Rolling Stones themed night, “19th Nervous Breakdown” as the theme and trailer for the Jerry Bruckheimer drama Miami Medical, “Gimme Shelter” in The Departed; “Sympathy for the Devil” in Tropic Thunder, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Remix” in 21; “Street Fighting Man” in Michael Moore’s film Sicko, as well as several Kinks and a Rolling Stones recording in The Darjeeling Limited.  Alisa’s efforts have expanded the licensing of ABKCO compositions and masters onto almost every major network television series including Glee, CSI, Criminal Minds, American Idol, The Voice, X-Factor and the Simpsons.

ABKCO’s newest licensing partnership with Smule illustrates Alisa’s continuing efforts to innovate the exploitation of the catalog.  The Magic Piano and Magic Guitar apps highlight both the cross branding of the Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed and the Jagger/Richards compositions on the album in an effort to expose the music to a broader demographic.

A former graduate from The Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford, Alisa began her career at The Harry Fox Agency co-directing the synchronization licensing department while interacting with music publishers and production companies to negotiate music rights.  She is currently a board member of the Association of Independent Music Publishers in New York, a publishing board member of A2IM, a member of NARAS, AIGA and CMA.  She is a frequent speaker at industry events including Billboard conferences and universities.