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Jay Cooper
Attorney Jay Cooper is Chair of the Los Angeles Entertainment Practice of Greenberg Traurig. In addition to his decades-long career representing some of the biggest names in rock and pop, Cooper is a former president of NARAS, a noted author in the fields of intellectual property and contract negotiation, and an in-demand guest lecturer. He is also a musician who, early in his career, made the decision to abandon a professional music career for one in entertainment law.
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Jay Cooper, a music lawyer based in Los Angeles, discusses recent structural changes in the music business that have changed what responsibilities labels have to their artists, what kinds of deals get signed, and what artists need to have accomplished before they even begin to seek a label deal.



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November 2007
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