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MMF Training, in association with MMF US, invite you and/or
your personnel to our first professional management
development programme in New York: "Artist Management in 2007
and Beyond". As technology evolves, traditional roles within
our industry are changing. We are all interacting with brands,
broadcasters, telcos and ISPs in ways that we never imagined.
The need to understand both the opportunities for and threats
to our business models has never been more important.
Part #1: Wednesday Evening 10th January 2007 (6.30 - 9.30
p.m.)
-(Overview) Personal & Business Management Functions
& Activities:
-from Artist Development to International Success
-(Good Practice) Process & Procedure: Recording &
Touring Projects; Money Management; Music Publishing; Media
Relations & Additional Income Streams
-(Professional Practice) Skills, Qualities &
Competence: What makes Good Management?
-(Avoiding Conflicts of Interest) Industry Trends &
Changing Roles:
-When is a Manager not a Manager?
-(Management Vulnerability!) Contracts &
Relationships: Who'd be an Artist Manager?
Part #2: Thursday Evening 11th January 2007 (6.30 - 9.30
p.m.)
-Management Agreements: Decisions, Alternatives &
Issues - Future- proofing or Not?
-(Key) Heads of Agreement: New Decisions required
regarding Term, Territory, Roles & Representation,
Financial Arrangements, Duties & Obligations
-Recent (Relevant) Legal Precedent regarding Undue
Influence, Restraint of Trade, "Sunset Clauses", Conflicts of
Interest & Commissionable Income
GUEST PANELISTS INCLUDE:
-Andy Kipnes - Advanced Alternative Media (AAM)
-Marty Diamond - Little Big Man/Paradigm (Pollstar Small
Booking Agency of the Year 1996-2000 and 2002-2005)
-Steve Martin - President - The Agency Group (Clients
include: Dave Gilmour, Billy Bragg, Bryan Ferry, Dream
Theater)
-Ken Anderson - Partner Loeb & Loeb LLP (Clients
include: Dixie Chicks, Ben Folds, Beastie Boys)
-Alan Wolmark - CEC Management
-Michael Hausman - Artist Manager, Co-founder of SuperEgo
Records and United Musicians (Roster includes: Aimee Mann,
Suzanne Vega, Marc Cohn and Angie Mattson)
-Andy Karp - Atlantic Records (Head of A & R)
-Paul Katz - Founder/CEO of Commit Media (Former Senior
Executive Jive/ Zomba, Former Head of Sony BMG's Visual Media
Division)
-Stuart Ditsky - CPA, PC (Clients include: Matchbox 20,
STAIND, Antigone Rising, Pink Spider, Rob Thomas, Suzanne
Vega, Aaron Lewis, Jem)
-Loren Chodosh - Loren Chodosh P.C. (Clients include: Yeah
Yeah Yeahs, The Secret Machines, TV on the Radio, Nada Surf,
Buddy Guy)
VENUE:
BMI, 320 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3790
DATES:
Part One: Wednesday 10th January 2007
Part Two: Thursday 11th January 2007
TIMES:
6.30pm - 9.30pm (both nights)
FEES:
MMF Members: $50 (covers both nights)
AFTRA, AFM, AIMP, A2IM, MPA, NARIP, NMPA, RIAA members: $75
(covers both nights)
Non-members: $100 (covers both nights)
Please note: For professionals, we are officially
accredited for Continuing Professional Development points by
all the legal and financial bodies based in the UK. Our first
event in New York City is a requirement to secure equivalent
accreditation and establish equivalent relationships in New
York.
Please also note: places at this event are strictly limited
by the venue capacity.
TO BOOK A PLACE
If you would like to reserve a place please complete the
booking form and click here to email it to us. A Microsoft Word version of the booking form can be found
on the menu link above under bookings. To confirm your place please send a copy of the booking
form with your payment (cheques payable to MMF Training) to
the Music Managers Forum-US at the address below.
SEND PAYMENT TO:
Music Managers Forum-US
P.O. Box 444
Village Station
New York, NY
10014 USA
CHEQUES PAYABLE TO: MMF Training-US
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