Job Description Job Description: At Warner Music Group, we're a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
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Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
Job Title: Coordinator, Legal Affairs (Temp)
A little bit about our team: As part of the Global Catalog Business and Legal Affairs team, the Legal Department is responsible for enforcing WMG's rights in the recorded music catalog repertoire controlled by its U.S. record labels, managing litigations involving WMG's recorded music rights in conjunction with WMG's corporate litigation in-house counsel, fielding inquiries and claims from third parties, researching WMG's recorded music catalog rights, filing applications to register copyrights in and to WMG's recorded music repertoire, and managing WMG's relationships with the labor unions with which WMG's U.S. record labels have collective bargaining agreements.
Members of the Legal Department work closely with employees in the Business Affairs, Finance, Production, Operations, New Media, and Marketing departments of each label client to fulfill the above-referenced responsibilities for the recordings and records those labels release.
Your role: This position will provide administrative support to the Global Catalog Legal Affairs Team. Here you will collaborate closely daily with the Global Catalog attorneys You will carry out standard and confidential administrative and clerical duties. As a Global Catalog Business and Legal Affairs Coordinator, this role will deal predominantly with WMG's catalog repertoire and the Rhino label. Please note that this role will end after September 30, 2024.
Here you'll get to: Scan and collate documents, answer and screen incoming calls, etc.
Field, track and route incoming correspondence
Maintain filing system
Draft and distribute internal and external correspondence
Draft letters of direction for payee changes from recording artists, producers, and other third party royalty participants and their representatives
Research royalties information and contract terms
Prepare documents for contract execution and post-execution handling
Provide general support to the Legal Affairs team including administrative tasks
Perform other similar tasks as requested, and handle other special projects as needed
About you: Bachelor's degree required
Knowledgeable of general business practices and music industry trends
Possess a strong work ethic; excellent organization skills and focused attention to detail
Strong proficiency using Microsoft Office suite and Google Workspace
Demonstrate a high level of customer service and phone etiquette for both internal and external clients
Excellent written communication and social skills
Handle confidential matters appropriately and with discretion
Team player who is able to multi-task, prioritize, and maintain a standard of excellence
We'd love it if you also had: 1-3 years of relevant music industry experience
About us: Warner Music's Center of Excellence for Shared Services opened in 2017 and is the home to the financial, legal, and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to our US Recorded Music and Publishing businesses. The Nashville center embodies the innovative and creative spirit that stems from the company's deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities.
As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world's premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We're the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.
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Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
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