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Beverly Robin Green
Attorney at Law

Ms. Green's practice concentrates on Entertainment Law, including the music recording industry, recording artists and publishing contracts, film and licensing, copyrights, trademarks, intellectual property, multimedia, film, TV, video,  Internet, Mediation, Entertainment Estates and Dispute Resolution. 
Ms. Green is instrumental in, and on the cutting edge of all New Media in entertainment.  AV rated.

E-Mail: MusicLawyer.com

Education: A renowned Entertainment Law and Music Business expert, Ms. Green is a California State Scholar and has been consistently awarded top honors for educational excellence.

Undergraduate Studies: Los Angeles Valley College, Cal State Northridge, Associate of Arts, 1975,  Faculty Voted:  Top College Student Scholarship. Undergraduate Studies concentrated on English, Philosophy, Music, History, Oceanography, and Astronomy.

Law School: Whittier College School of Law, Los Angeles, CA J.D. (Juris Doctorate), 1979, Magna Cum Laude, Valedictorian and No. 1 Graduate in Law School. Law School studies concentrated on Entertainment Law, Copyright Law, Music Business practices, protection of trademarks, intellectual property, and rights of publicity and negotiating related deals and contracts.

Awards (partial listing):

Named a California State Scholar, 1973
Voted Top Los Angeles Valley College Student, 1975
Valedictorian and No. 1 in Law School Class, 1979
California Jurisprudence Awards
American Jurisprudence Awards
Corpus Juris Secundum Awards
"Who's Who in Entertainment", 1991-present

Legal Experience:

Since 1980, Ms. Green has expansive expertise from hundreds of complex transactions in entertainment law. Ms. Green protects and licenses copyrights in music, sounds, characters and other property rights in film, publishing and recording and negotiates for many major national and international entertainment notables.  Some of Ms. Green's past and present clients have included Alien Music, Bruce Cohn Management, The Doobie Brothers, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills Music, B-Flat Publishing, BrainChild Records, Island Heat Productions, "Toy Story" Art Director Ralph Eggleston,  Danny Glover, Nick Gravenites, Palm Records, Pete Sears, Craig Chaquico, David Freiberg, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, Eklypse, Joe Louis Walker, Zakir Hussain, Tiger/Hasbro and other talent in the Entertainment, Music Recording, Publishing, Motion Picture, Television, Theatrical, Multimedia, Toy and Internet Industries.  Ms. Green has dealings with companies such as Disney, Pixar, Warner Bros., Columbia/Sony, Paramount, LucasFilm, and Major Record Companies on a regular basis.

Ms. Green negotiates and writes contracts and licenses for projects involving music recording, publishing, film, multimedia, high tech toys, Internet, and all aspects of the Entertainment Industry. 

Ms. Green has been involved in work on film projects such as "Toy Story" and "Star Wars."  Her work involves dealings with the music performance rights societies,  ASCAP, and BMI.   Ms. Green provides experienced legal advice and representation on licensing and rights clearance, and  combines her experience in entertainment law, contracts, copyright, trademark, and licensing for her clients.  Ms Green was practicing "multimedia" law long before "multimedia" became a buzzword.  Many of her clients are music writers and estates of music greats, working to place their works in many new uses. Ms. Green has helped her clients license music into such productions as "Wild, Wild West" and with such recording artists as Destiny's Child. As technology invents new media, Ms. Green is at the forefront.

Martindale-Hubbell Rating AV.

Memberships

Teaching and Leadership

Ms. Green originated and taught the popular course at San Francisco State University for the Music Recording Industry Certificate Program:  "The Legal Aspects of the Music Recording Industry", as a professor at San Francisco State University over a period from 1981 until 1990, and is among the minority of women who has been recognized in the official "Who's Who in Entertainment".

Ms. Green has served as Copyright Chairperson of the San Francisco Patent & Trademark Law Association, and as a Governor and Legal Counsel for the San Francisco Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy ® Awards). She was and is frequently a featured speaker on copyright, licensing and other related intellectual property legal and business issues for multimedia developers. This includes the NARAS Music Business Conferences and Music In Multimedia, California Lawyers for the Arts Music Business Seminars, Northern California Songwriter's Association Music Conferences, and the San Francisco Multimedia Conference.

Publications

Ms. Green has been featured on radio, television, and in the news. Green & Green was interviewed by ABC Evening News regarding the legal issues of "Changing Contract Terms and Renegotiations" Nationally published articles (partial listing):
"Talent Agencies and the New California Act" (1988) Entertainment Law Reporter, and Clark/Boardman's Entertainment, Publishing & Arts Handbook,
"Trademark and the Rocker" (1990 NARAS Journal, and Clark Boardman's Entertainment, Publishing & Arts Handbook)

NOTICE: Pursuant to California Business and Professions Code § 6158.3. The result portrayed in all cases discussed in these pages in the several advertisements and articles contained herein were dependent on the facts of that case, and the reader is cautioned that the results will differ if the reader's case or issue is based on different facts.

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