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Photos by Janet Landrum courtesy of House of Blues Sunset Additional Speaker InformationMr. Besser has defended numerous cases including Isley Brothers and Kingsmen for "Louie Louie". Charles Cronin is a musician and a lawyer from Los Angeles. He has an undergraduate degree from Oberlin, and an MA and PhD in musicology from Stanford. He earned a JD from American University and a Masters in Information Systems from Berkeley. At Yale Law School’s ISP he will work with Yale Libraries to create an interactive online resource that will assist librarians in resolving copyright questions arising in their day-to-day work. The musical career of Gerald Eskelin is multi-faceted, spanning five decades of conducting, singing, composing, writing, and teaching. He has received two Grammy nominations for recordings by the L.A. Jazz Choir, which he founded in 1980. Dr. Eskelin recently retired from his position on the music faculty of Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California. Prior to his thirty-year tenure there, he taught at the University of Southern California and California Institute of the Arts. The Hollywood/Nashville/New York legal community regularly utilizes his expertise in regard to music copyright infringement. He has testified in court on behalf of John Fogerty, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, the Isley Brothers, the Spin Doctors and "Roger Rabbit" composer Allan Sylvestri. He has also provided musicological services for many celebrated musical performers, including Janet Jackson, Madonna, Elton John, Faith Hill, Kid Rock, Green Day, and ZZ Top. Mr. Mallen is Co-Chair of the law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips’ national Entertainment Litigation Department. He specializes in entertainment industry, media and intellectual property litigation. He has litigated numerous music copyright cases as counsel for record labels, music publishers and artists such as the Rolling Stones, Robert Kelly, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Kid Rock and Destiny’s Child. |
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