Judith Finell was the testifying expert for the Marvin Gaye family in the milestone “Blurred Lines” case in Federal Court. She has testified in many other notable copyright infringement trials over the past 20 years. She and her team of musicologists regularly advise HBO, Lionsgate, Grey Advertising, CBS, Warner, Disney, and Sony Pictures on musical works for their commercials, films, and television series. Ms. Finell also frequently advises attorneys, advertising agencies, entertainment and recording companies, publishing firms, and musicians, addressing copyright issues, including those arising from digital sampling, electronic technology and Internet musical usage.
Ms. Finell was invited to teach the first course in the country on forensic musicology at UCLA in 2018. She holds an M.A. degree in musicology from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. from UCLA in piano performance. She has written numerous articles and a book in the area of contemporary music and copyright infringement and has appeared in trials on Court TV and before the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She is a trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and has appeared as a guest lecturer at the law schools of Harvard University, UCLA, Stanford, Columbia, Vanderbilt, George Washington, NYU, and Fordham, as well as the Beverly Hills Bar Assn., LA Copyright Society, and the Association of Independent Music Publishers. She is co-founder and editor of Your Inside Track, a music copyright newsletter. She may be reached either by e-mail at judi@jfmusicservices.com or by telephone at (310) 301-3338.
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Judith Finell will be speaking at the Colorado Bar Association virtual event
“Protecting Musical Creations in the Age of AI” on November 20, 2024 from Noon–1 PM Mountain time
to discuss the race to protect music copyrights while building new content assisted by AI creators.
RSVP today at this link: https://cobar.informz.net/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9NDI4NDMyOCZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9Mzc3OTIzNDYw