Based in: New York City, NY

Contact: bob@royaltyshare.com

Occupation: Chairman & CEO, RoyaltyShare Inc.

Biography
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Bob Kohn is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of RoyaltyShare, Inc. Kohn is a leading expert on music licensing and intellectual property law & policy, and as an entrepreneur was a pioneer in digital music distribution. He is the co-author of Kohn On Music Licensing (Aspen Law & Business, 3rd Edition 2002), a 1,600 page legal treatise which USA Today called, the bible on legal issues in the music world. In 1998, he founded EMusic.com, Inc., the pioneering MP3 music-download service which was acquired in 2001 by Universal Music Group. Until recently, Kohn served vice chairman of the board of Borland Software Corporation where he previously served as senior vice president and general counsel. Prior to that, he was an associate attorney at the law offices of Milton A. "Mickey" Rudin, an entertainment law firm whose clients included Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, and Cher.

Kohn serves on the editorial board of the Entertainment Law Reporter and has taught law at Monterey College of Law in Monterey, California. He is a frequent lecturer and panelist at industry conferences, including most recently conferences co-sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce held in several cities in China. He also has made numerous appearances on television news programs as an authority on copyright and entertainment law. Additional Information on RoyaltyShare can be found at http://www.royaltyshare.com