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Counsel (Music)
1 year ago
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
Legal
What We Do
Be part of Epic’s global, multi-specialized team of attorneys and legal professionals as you’ll partner across our organization to provide legal solutions, consult and inform what we build and develop for our people, players and customers around the world.
What You'll Do
We’re looking for a music licensing attorney with experience in media and entertainment to join our growing music licensing practice. This position will work closely with our business teams to provide world class legal support and advice when working with record labels, publishers, independent artists and more.
In this role, you will
- Work closely with business counterparts across Epic Games music and business teams to advise on strategy and manage legal needs.
- Coordinate and communicate daily with music clearance agents, publishers, labels and talent management to facilitate licensing.
- Review, draft and negotiate master and publishing licenses and other music-related agreements with record labels, publishers and independent artists.
- Coordinate with outside counsel as necessary.
- Provide support to other Epic products and services, as time permits.
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of music legal experience, i ncluding at least 1 year of hands-on experience drafting and negotiating music licenses with external parties
- Lawyer, qualified to practice in the US.
- Strong initiative and sound judgment, with the ability to work independently.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.
- Someone who is user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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