Music Counsel (English)
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Minimum qualifications:
- JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience at attorney-level in government, in-house, or at a law firm.
- Experience in commercial negotiations, digital music licensing agreements, and with negotiations and support of multi-territorial licensing entities.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently in order to negotiate, draft, and analyze licensing agreements.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g. have registered in-house status) in any one country in the region in which the position is located.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with international consumer and data protection laws.
- Experience with industry level initiatives in relation to music and copyright.
- Ability to communicate in a local Asian language fluently (e.g., Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia, Hindi, or Mandarin) to negotiate with key regional partners.
About the job
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
As a Music Counsel, you will focus on music licensing, policy development, content-creation and distribution, and related transactions for Google products, particularly YouTube and YouTube Music in APAC.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Discuss, draft, and review multi-territorial music and video content licensing agreements with record labels, music publishers, and collecting societies primarily for YouTube.
- Respond promptly to legal requests from business development, sales, licensing, marketing, and other business areas.
- Advise business development, finance, and other company departments on legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures, approval processes, company policies and procedures, and intellectual property, together with advising on overall strategic positioning.
- Work with internal and external legal counsel on specific matters ranging from regulatory issues to expert advice requests.
- Support continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes.
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