In this session for musician and soundart awardees, learn from legal experts and musicians about best practices around music sharing from social media to streaming platforms, pay walls to copyright.

Presenter: Jeff Prystowsky, Musical Entrepreneur, Co-founder of Providence, RI band, The Low Anthem, Law Student in Musical Law and IP .

Jeff lives in Providence, RI with his wife and two children. As President of the Intellectual Property Law Association at RWU Law, he organized and moderated five programs on intellectual property law, including Hip Hop and the Law, Real World IP, Cultural Misappropriation, Copyright and Racial Justice, and Art Law: Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith. This October, he will begin working as an Intellectual Property Litigation Associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Boston, MA. Before law school, he co-founded The Low Anthem, a band that opened for Bruce Springsteen, toured with Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, The Avett Brothers, Iron & Wine, and The Chieftains, and performed on Late Night with David Letterman three times, at Carnegie Hall twice, at Lincoln Center, and main stage at the Newport Folk Festival. He is a graduate of Brown University, and his latest paper, “Hits & Writs, Take Two”: Revising the Laws of de minimis Music Sampling, is forthcoming in the 2023 Roger Williams University Law Review.

IAA Professional Development Series: In Tune - Music Streaming and Copyright