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RafterMarsh: Ask A Lawyer About Audio Legal Problems - Heather Rafter, Philipp Lengeling, Francine Godrich - ADC 2023
Your intellectual property is the lifeblood of your business; do you have a legal question relating to your audio products? Want to discuss different ways to approach licensing and strategic partnerships? The new privacy regulations? Points to consider if you’re a UK or EU company doing business in the U.S. or vice versa? Or perhaps you have questions about protecting your intellectual property? A team of expert lawyers including Heather Rafter (RafterMarsh), Philipp Lengeling (RafterMarsh) and Francine Godrich (Focusrite) will be available to answer your questions. Bring us your most challenging legal questions!
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Heather Rafter
Heather Dembert Rafter has been providing legal and business development services to the audio, music technology, and digital media industries for over twenty-five years. As principal counsel at RafterMarsh US, she leads the RM team in providing sophisticated corporate and IP advice (US practice) and entertainment law services (UK) to content creators, hardware and software developers, and event producers, among others.Heather served as Director of Legal Affairs and later General Counsel for Digidesign, the audio division of Avid Technology and the creator of the award-winning Pro Tools software. Heather was instrumental in the company’s acquisition of M-Audio and Sibelius Software and represented audio console leader Euphonix in its acquisition by Avid, as well as counsel for Imagine Research in its acquisition by iZotope, another audio industry flagship company.She began her legal career as a litigation attorney at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, focusing on intellectual property and commercial matters. Heather served as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law and is a member of the ABA’s Fund for Justice and Education.Heather currently serves as an Advisor to Ardian, a French-based private equity firm, on the Board of Advisors of the Bob Moog Foundation and as a Senior Advisor for MediaBridge Capital, a leading investment banking and strategic advisory firm serving the media technology industry. Heather, an advocate for gender parity in the legal and music industry, also serves on the Boards of SoundGirls.org: http://soundgirls.org/, and WiMN, the Women’s International Music Network. A proud alumna, Heather serves on the advisory council for the Department of Music at Princeton University. Heather is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B., Woodrow School of Public & International Affairs, magna cum laude) and Columbia University School of Law (J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). Heather’s sons both work in high tech, and her daughter is finishing her senior year at Princeton University. Heather is an avid yogi and fan of live music.
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Philipp Lengeling
Philipp G. Lengeling, Mag. iur., LL.M. (New York), Esq. is an attorney based in New York (U.S.A.) and Hamburg (Germany), who is heading the New York and Hamburg based offices for RafterMarsh, a transatlantic boutique law firm (California, New York, U.K., Germany).
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Francine Godrich
Francine is General Counsel (i.e. does lots of legal stuff) and Company Secretary (i.e. deals with corporate governance administration) to one of the world’s most passionate and prestigious Music Tech plcs. Francine spends a lot of her time looking at how Focusrite plc can grow its business whether this be through entering into agreements with suppliers and manufacturers to give the business the tools it needs to operate every day, investments into and acquisitions of businesses that will compliment and augment Focusrite or doing all the other legal things that no one really knows goes on e.g. confidentiality agreements, advising on how competition law can affect every day business, protecting our intellectual property portfolio, handling employment matters, reviewing software licences and creating the contracts the commercial teams come up with – fun times.
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
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