Date/Time
Date(s) -
09/16/2025
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Zoom
“Legal Roundup 2025: The Black, the White, and the Gray of Legal Developments of the Past Year”
When it comes to big tech companies (including DSPs), the U.S. Copyright Office, music industry trade groups (e.g., RIAA, NMPA, etc.), performing rights organizations, and copyright stake holders in the music industry (e.g., songwriters, publishers, record companies, etc.), it’s interesting to see what has transpired over the past year on a weekly basis.
Join us as some of the most respected “movers and shakers” in the legal world discuss the black, the white, and the gray regarding the legal landscape of the past year as it relates to the music industry. Topics of discussion will include: copyright reform, legislation, court decisions, “fair use,” artificial intelligence, the U.S. Copyright Office, performing rights organizations, and many more, time permitting.
Moderator:
Michael R. Morris, Esq. | Partner, Valensi Rose, PLC
Panelists:
Jordan Bromley, Esq. | Partner, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP; Leader of Entertainment, Transactions and Finance
Chris Castle | Christian Castle Attorneys
Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, Esq. | Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
1:30pm – 3:00pm PDT | Zoom Webinar Broadcast
(please note the earlier start time!)
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Registration deadline is Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 12:30pm PDT
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Biographies
Michael R. Morris, Esq. | Partner, Valensi Rose, PLC
Michael R. Morris has blended his tax law expertise with his passion for music and entertainment, resulting in a practice that is unique.
As a former trial lawyer for the IRS and a Certified Specialist in Taxation Law, Michael provides insightful resolutions to his clients’ complicated tax, estate and business transaction issues. In the entertainment industry, Michael has developed a strong reputation of providing valuable and effective business solutions in areas such as copyright and contractual matters.
Although Michael’s core competency is within the tax arena and entertainment, he has developed significant expertise covering a wide range of businesses. His diverse client base includes major studio executives, recording artists (including Grammy winners), production companies, film and TV composers, talent agencies, payroll companies, skin healthcare companies, postproduction houses, software companies, and an award-winning winery.
Jordan Bromley, Esq. | Partner, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP; Leader of Entertainment, Transactions and Finance
Jordan Bromley is highly sought after as an entertainment advisor and consistently on the pulse of the latest market trends. Jordan leads Manatt Entertainment, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected practices. Jordan mentors both new associates and tenured colleagues, driving the Entertainment group’s growth and artist-first approach. He has helped artists across the country build their brands, capitalize on business opportunities and advocate for their rights across the rapidly evolving entertainment landscape.
He has been recognized by Billboard as one of “Music’s Most Powerful Attorneys” and a “Top Music Lawyer,” named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers: Top Music Attorneys, Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report and named the Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by The Recorder. Jordan has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the country’s foremost transactional lawyers in the entertainment industry. Jordan is named to the Los Angeles Times’ 2025 and 2024 Entertainment Visionaries list. In Chambers feedback, clients have stated “Jordan is a great legal practitioner and business adviser. He has a wealth of knowledge and is well connected.” He has been called a “brilliant lawyer,” and lauded as “the best there is. Period.”
Jordan leverages a robust bench of deeply experienced professionals from both legal and commercial standpoints who use their deep understanding of how the business operates to help guide artists, creators and talent across the entertainment industry through emerging opportunities in the evolving creator economy.
Chris Castle | Christian Castle Attorneys
Chris Castle is a lawyer based in Austin, Texas where he represents music clients in transactional matters, music-tech start ups and public policy clients. He writes the MusicTechPolicy and MusicTech.Solutions
blogs. He is a frequent commenter on ticketing, artificial intelligence and copyright including a comment for the US AI Action Plan and the UK IPO Office AI consultation, as well as the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Request for Information on ticket scalping.
Chris filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on behalf of the Artist Rights Institute, Blake Morgan and heirs Abby North and Angela Rose White in the Vetter v. Resnik appeal to supporting songwriter Cyril Vetter’s claim for global rights in a terminated US copyright. He also supported songwriters in comments to the Copyright Royalty Board in the successful opposition to the “frozen mechanicals” settlement in the CRB’s Phonorecords IV Subpart B proceeding resulting in the CRB ordering an increase in the minimum statutory mechanical rate from 9.1¢ to 12¢ with a cost-of-living adjustment (resulting in the current rate of 12.7¢).
His recent published writings include a study on “streaming remuneration” for musicians commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Organization co-written with Professor Claudio Feijoo. He was selected as one of the Billboard “Top Music Lawyers” for 2024.
Prior to founding the firm he was SVP and General Counsel to SNOCAP in San Francisco, of counsel to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto and Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp in Los Angeles, SVP Business Affairs at Sony Music in New York, and VP Business Affairs at A&M Records in Hollywood.
Chris holds MBA, JD and BA degrees from UCLA. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law and a director of the Artist Rights Institute. He is admitted to the bar in California and Texas. He may be reached at christiancastle.com. Before law school he was a songwriter and working musician and a member of Local 47 AFM.
Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, Esq. | Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, is a litigator and transactional attorney whose practice is focused on entertainment and copyright law. Her firm’s clients include music companies and film studios, as well as individual songwriters, recording artists and other creators.
Previously, Jacqueline served as General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights of the U.S. Copyright Office, where she had primary responsibility for interpretation of the U.S. Copyright Act and oversaw a wide range of litigation and policy matters, including the Office’s participation in Supreme Court cases.
In addition to handling litigation and transactional matters, drawing on her government experience, Jacqueline advises clients on copyright-related legislative and regulatory issues. In 2018, Jacqueline was named a Billboard Woman Executive of the Year for her role in helping to craft and secure passage of the Music Modernization Act, landmark legislation to update U.S. music licensing rules.
Jacqueline has lectured extensively on music and copyright law, including at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and other law schools, and serves as a trustee of the Los Angeles Copyright Society.
Jacqueline received a B.A. with honors in American Civilization from Brown University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, she oversaw the The Yale Law Journal as an Executive Committee Editor and was a founding member of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York and Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit.
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