Mic-Dropping Music Lawyers

Damien Granderson GRANDERSONDES ROCHERS Granderson represented Quality Control Music in its sale to K-pop power HYBE America, and he also reps triple Grammy nominee Raye, handling performance agreements for her shows at London's O2 Arena, Coachella, Saturday Night Live and Royal Albert Hall. For Dua Lipa, she successfully obtained dismissal with prejudice of a copyright infringement case against the pop star and Warner Music Group for "Levitating," Billboard's No. 1 song of 2021; Lepera also won a summary judgment for Timbaland and other defendants on claims of infringement. With such clients as Sony Music, Disney, Amazon, the NBA and the NFL, Perry continues to be an authority on Al deals, digital content distribution issues, and data collection and licensing, while Sperling is a go-to litigator for labels in copyright and royalty disputes. [...]he negotiated Linkin Park's partnership with Riot Games and continues to work on the Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business Fellowship Program at Howard University, established after the death of George Floyd and aimed at increasing the pipeline for Black executives in the music business.