AIMP's Teri Nelson-Carpenter, national chair and Los Angeles chapter president; Alisa Coleman, New York chapter president; and John Ozier, Nashville chapter president, issued a joint statement about his passing on Saturday .
"The AIMP mourns the loss of a true friend to independent songwriters and music publishers," the statement reads. "Jay Rosenthal was more than an attorney to most of us. He passionately represented the causes for independents championing the way on major issues that deeply impacted the community. Jay was an important educator providing detailed knowledge at our Washington roundups and his experience and expertise to our executive board.
He was most recently a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp , where he had been providing services for clients in the entertainment and copyright industries since 2015. He represented talent, production companies and trade associations, focusing on public policy, transactional and litigation matters in the movie and music industries.
Before joining the MSK team, Rosenthal was senior vice president and general counsel at the National Music Publishers' Association , where he counseled on copyright policy and reform and worked at length with independent music publishers across the United States. Rosenthal developed and implemented the NMPA Late Fee and Modernization Programs and worked with the Recording Industry Association of America and other organizations on anti-piracy matters.
Prior to that, he held positions at Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, where he was a partner; the Recording Artists' Coalition , where he served as general counsel; and the U.S. Copyright Office, as a copyright examiner. Among his many professional endeavors, Rosenthal also lectured as an adjust professor of law at Georgetown and George Washington University.
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