Entertainment Law Mentor - Negotiating Exclusive Songwriting Agreements

Steve Weaver, a solo practitioner of entertainment and intellectual property law since 1980, received his Juris Doctor degree in 1977 from the Cecil C. Humphreys law school at the University of Memphis, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Law Review. Steve began his entertainment law career in Atlanta, Georgia serving as an assistant professor and the Director of the Commercial Music/Recording Program at Georgia State University for three years. He then joined the Atlanta entertainment law firm headed by Joel Katz where he represented entertainment industry clientele until 1982. After returning to his hometown of Memphis in 1983, Steve began his private practice in the entertainment field and opened a second office in Nashville in 1993. The entire firm was relocated to Nashville in 1995. Current clients include songwriters, publishers, recording artists, artist managers, record labels and filmmakers in the country, pop, rock and Christian music fields. He is licensed by the State Bars of Tennessee and Georgia. Steve is a member of the Recording Academy, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Nashville Songwriters Association International, the Copyright Society of the South, the Country Music Association and the Academy of County Music. Steve's website is http: //musicrowlawyer.com and his blogs are http: //musicrowlawyer.typepad.com and http: //www.soloentertainmentlawyer.com.