Legal Counsel Music 2023

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a legal field, LLB degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in private practice or in-house team in the UK.
• Qualified to practice law in the UK.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience negotiating music licensing agreements with record labels, music publishers, and collecting societies for digital platforms, in either in-house or private practice.
• Experience in analyzing and advising on proposed and current content regulation.
• Ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadlines.
• Excellent business judgment and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent entrepreneurial and creative thinking skills.

About the job

You will negotiate, draft, and analyze a wide variety of music and video content licensing and related agreements for YouTube and Google’s growing digital media business. You will analyze and advise on legal issues relating to the use of music across the entire spectrum of Google products.

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Responsibilities

• Respond to legal requests from Business Development, Policy, Licensing, Marketing, and other business areas.
• Negotiate, draft, and review multi-territorial music and video content licensing agreements with record labels, music publishers, and collecting societies, primarily for YouTube.
• Advise Business Development as well as Finance and other company departments on legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures, approval processes, company policies and procedures, intellectual property, and overall strategic positioning.
• Support and advise Policy teams on legislative proposals and implementations relevant to YouTube and Google.
• Support continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes.

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