Music Industry Expert Witnesses

This expert is the founding principal of an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in the management, valuation, and monetization of IP. He is a certified licensing professional (CLP) with over a decade of expertise in intellectual property valuation, profit apportionment and expert witness damages testimony. Additionally, he specializes in analyses for copyright and trademark infringement, publicity rights, social media and Internet infringement, defamation, marketing strategy analyses and royalty rate determinations. He also provides valuations and monetization strategies for trademarks, publicity rights, domain names, Internet and social media assets, brand assets and copyrights for financial reporting, bankruptcy and transactional due diligence. He is a member of the International Trademark Association, the Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association, and the Section of the Intellectual Property Law of the American Bar Association.

This qualified expert holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and is a Certified Licensing Professional as well as an Certified Valuation Analyst. He specializes in intellectual property damages analysis including reasonable royalty and lost profit calculations. With more than 17 years experience in the fields of intellectual property assertion, intellectual property monetization, trademark disputes, copyright, breach of contract disputes, commercial business disputes, financial modeling, valuation and other economic damages issues, Marcus had led projects covering numerous industries including semiconductor, wireless networking, cellular communications technologies, internet software, oil & gas drilling technology, commercial services and telecommunications sectors.

This expert has 40 years of experience in the music industry. He earned his BM from Illinois State University, his MM from Ithaca College and his PhD in higher education administration from Arizona State University. He is a member of the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the International Ticketing Association. He previously served as a summer festival manager for the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival, as the director of the fine art series at James Madison University, and as the associate dean in the department of humanities at California State University, San Bernardino. He is currently a professor in the department of recording industry at a university in Tennessee.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in architecture and the functionality of built environments, with his work involving public spaces, premises liability, design problem, and architectural copyright for a wide range of building and property types. He received his BS in communications from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before earning his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in architecture from University College London, and his DTech in built environment from Ulster University in Northern Ireland. He is active in his field as a member of several associations, including the American Real Estate Society, the Cliff Dwellers, and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. This expert is also involved in the field as an author of a multitude of peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters, and professional criticisms and reviews. He has also presented at various conferences on the local, national, and international levels throughout his career. He has formerly served as a planner for the Springfield and Sangamon County, Illinois Planning Commission, a designer for Skidmore Ownings & Merrill, the acting project architect for Douglas Schroeder Associates, and the managing director of Space Syntax. He also has an abundance of academic experience, having previously served as an associate professor of architecture at Arizona State University, the associate dean and an associate professor of architecture and planning at the University of Colorado Denver, and the head of real estate management and development at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Currently, this expert is the owner of a product design company and the principal and owner of a design analysis firm.

This expert earned his BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and went on to found a music education company called LessonUp. He then began his career in software as a teacher in residence at Hack Reactor and went on to work as a software engineer at Hint Health. He has demonstrated experience with back-end web technologies for technology startups and is skilled in numerous software languages, including Ruby, Python, and Javascript. Currently, this expert is a senior software engineer at the leading digital currency exchange in the United States.

This highly qualified forensic musicologist has over 25 years of experience in his field. He earned his BA in music at Northumbria and his PhD in music at University of Surrey. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is highly published in his field, having over 30 books and 300 articles to his name. His primary area of research expertise is the psychology of songwriting and similarity thresholds in popular songs. Currently this expert is the vice president of academic affairs at a music college in Massachusetts where he also serves as a professor.

This audio device expert began his career as a professional musician, studying at the Boston Conservatory of Music. He thereafter earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and later pursued a doctorate in the field at Lehigh University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and member of the IEEE, National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE) and Audio Engineering Society (AES). As the author of industry patents and an active member of the American Bar Association Section Intellectual Property Law, he has a significant interest in intellectual property disputes.

This expert currently works at an intellectual asset consulting firm specializing in trademark, patent and copyright licensing, valuations, and expert testimony. He has worked on branding infringement and Right of Publicity cases for celebrities. Additionally, he has published multiple articles on publicity, rights of publicity, and valuation of clients.

This performing artist and scholar of twentieth century American culture served among the first curators of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA in Sociology and Fine Arts from Montclair State University and completed a doctoral degree focused on American Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He has served as a faculty member in the American Studies departments of Penn College, Indiana University, and Radford University, while also acting as a Senior Fellow of the Laurasian Institution, which fosters cultural exchange between Asia and North America. Having published on Blues and the American 1960's counterculture, he reviews a number of scholarly journals, such as the American Quarterly, the Journal of Social Media Studies, and the African American Review.

This expert is a world renowned figure in digital audio and computer music, with over 40 technical publications and four patents to his credit. The former chief technical officer at Lucasfilm Droid Works, he won both an Emmy Award for Technical Achievement and the Audio Engineering Society's lifetime achievement award. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as undergraduate degrees in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from MIT.

This expert has more than a quarter century of experience developing financial and economic analyses to solve business problems. His practice principally involves intellectual property issues, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret as well as unfair competition antitrust matters and business valuations, breach of contract disputes, and technology assessment. acquisitions analysis, has enabled him to assist clients on a wide range of litigation issues. His industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food, industrial products, machinery, automotive aftermarket, electronic components, telecommunications, airlines, computer hardware, software, and media and entertainment. He has testified in state court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of International Trade, and before the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to joining Freeman & Mills, he served in senior corporate positions in business planning, acquisitions, and product development. He was the president of a technology marketing and licensing company; served as an economist at the Department of the Treasury, where his responsibilities included corporate fraud, technology licensing and transfer pricing; and was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a BS in engineering and an MA and a PhD in economics, all from Duke University.