Music Law and Business Workshop:
Starting Your Own Music Business



CHICAGO Music Law and Business Workshop:
Starting Your Own Music Business


Thank you everyone for making this event so successful and warm and wonderful!
It was a great experience, and thank you!

Presented by:


Sue Basko, Lawyer for Music and Film
W. Kelly Milionis, Entertainment Consultant
Christian Connors, Chief Engineer, Paragon Recording Studio

Friday July 29, 3-6 pm
Paragon Studios Chicago
$10 cash at door 
 Free food and prizes
  
Do you want to start a music business? This workshop will help inspire you, help you think of possibilities, and set you on the right path.  Whether the music business is a band, a venue, a festival, a blog, a service, a website, a record label -- or any other music business - these all have common threads of needed skills and knowledge.   Today, music businesses are often interwoven:  A band may act as its own record label.  A recording studio producer may act as a composer.  A blog may act as A&R.    A festival may produce and sell music.  A venue may also be a recording studio, and vice versa.  A website may provide a major music service.  Doing the legal and business basics correctly from the get-go can enable you to branch off later.   An understanding of the underpinnings of music law and business as they are today is so important.  
Workshop presented by Sue Basko, a Lawyer for Music and Film in California and Illinois.  Sue works with bands, recording studios,  record labels, publishers, venues, festivals, websites, filmmakers, designers, and other creative businesses.  She represents some of the best singer-songwriters today.  Sue writes a widely-read blog that provides excellent free music law information to its readers.  Sue is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a B.A. in Film and Video; graduate school in digital production and media law at the Southern Illinois University School of Mass Communication Media Arts;  she has a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Southern Illinois University School of Law.  She is licensed as an attorney in California and Illinois.   Sue loves to hear new music.  She is known to dance anywhere to any music.

Special Speaker: W. Kelly Milionis, Entertainment Consultant.  Over 30-plus years as a music industry veteran, Kelly has been involved in nearly every facet of the entertainment industry. With a specialty in positioning properties/products directly to ultimate consumers, he has quietly assisted, consulted, produced, developed, promoted, branded, motivated and/or marketed a multitude of musical artists, products and businesses; including award winners, nominees and world-class inspirational creative talent.

Always an outspoken proponent for public advocacy; whether for artists’ rights, charitable concerns, political action and awareness, music in education, or the use of new technologies to further growth, Kelly has provided his expertise and knowledge base through lectures and consultations to students in the classroom, sitting on panels at Industry Conferences, advising Businesses and Governmental Agencies, and testifying before House/Senate sub-committees.

Kelly is a long standing member of the Recording Academy – Los Angeles Chapter and a founding member of the Latin Recording Academy. He graduated from Columbia College with a B.A. in Arts, Entertainment and Media Management


Come prepared to think.  This will be fast-paced and geared to people already experienced and knowledgeable about music.  Plenty of time for questions.

Time for everything: There will be time to talk with Sue, and/or Kelly, time to talk with Christian one on one, time to tour the studio, and time to meet other like-minded music people.   
Please feel free to bring music-related  things you wish to share - demo CDs, business cards, resumes, flyers, etc.

Free Food provided by Jimmy John's.

Limelight prizes for all.
TWO special prizes from Limelight: a free cover song clearance with 1000 free copies.
Planning to record a cover song?  This is for you! 
Sponsored by:
 Limelight, a song clearance company, which is providing prizes for all attendees.
Jimmy John's Sandwich restaurant, providing food.
Christian (Joe) Connors, Chief Engineer, Paragon Studios 
Sue Basko, Lawyer for Music and Film
W. Kelly Milionis, Entertainment Consultant

DATE: Friday July 29, 2011
TIME:  3-6 pm 
PLACE: Paragon Studio, 820 West Fulton Market, Chicago
(entrance on Green Street/ ring bell)
COST: $10 cash at door
  RSVP as soon as possible.  

Paragon Studio Phone:  312- 942-0075


Studio Location:
820 West Fulton Market, Chicago (entrance on Green Street - ring bell)
(one block Northwest of Halsted and Lake Streets)
Near Halsted Street Bus.
A 10 minute walk from the Blue Line Grand Avenue Stop.
Driving? Street Parking.