KENNETH D. FREUNDLICH

Biography:

A native New Yorker, from any early age, Kenneth Freundlich was bit by the entertainment bug. Growing up in a household full of music, Ken studied piano and clarinet and performed local concerts. He has practiced law in both New York and Los Angeles for more than twenty years, representing artists, producers, managers, and companies in matters large and small, litigation and otherwise.

Ken comes to his work with a healthy blend of right and left brained thinking. In High School at Woodmere Academy in Woodmere, New York, Ken participated in several musicals and put together talent shows which included live performances by Ken and his band with Ken as the Lead singer and keyboardist. At Brown, Ken musically directed an original musical written by the late, great Rusty McGee and was actively involved as an actor, director and musician in several other productions at Brown. Ken also sang lead in an a cappella group that later morphed into the wildly successful a cappella group "Rockapella".

After college, Ken moved to Los Angeles to study Law and Business at UCLA. Ken studied copyright with Melville Nimmer at UCLA and learned from the finest finance and marketing teachers at Anderson.

WhIle in graduate school, Ken also found time to record and perform as a tenor in the Grammy-Award nominated LA Jazz Choir – an experience through which Ken discovered and introduced the Choir's talented director, Dr. Gerald Eskelin, to the legal profession as one of the World's leading musicologists opining in the area
of Copyright Law.

Ken is the only attorney to have trained and been mentored in New York and Los Angeles at the premier boutique entertainment litigation powerhouses, Lavely & Singer in Los Angeles and Parcher & Hayes (now Manatt Phelps and Phillips NY) in New York. Working in the crucible of L&S or P&H's intense and challenging atmosphere's under the guidance of Peter Parcher, Marty Singer, Jay Lavely or Steven Hayes, from the earliest time, Ken was head first and knee deep in the most complex litigations whether involving insurance disputes, copyright, right of publicity, contract, defamation, trademark infringement, artist-management disputes, talent agency act disputes, profit participation cases, idea submission cases, partnership disputes, Guild arbitrations, executive disengagements and labor issues, rights disputes, credit disputes and the like.

He worked on matters for, among others, Michael Jackson, Sylvestor Stallone, Georgio Moroder, Mariah Carey, MC Hammer, Tom Selleck, Rodney Dangerfield, John Waite, Poison, Warner Bros. Records, Paul Simon, BMG Music, Sony Music, Gloria Estefan, C&C Music Factory, New Kids on the Block, Lou Piniella and the Estate of Andy Warhol.

Ken was privileged to be asked by Paul Simon to represent him in connection with Paul Simon's Concert in Central Park in 1991. Ken was credited as a Co-Producer of that event negotiating complex contracts with Paul's band, the record, company, the City of New York, and the various distribution channels including obtaining insurance of the event which went off successfully and without
a hitch.

Freundlich Law I

From 1993-1999, Mr. Freundlich had his own Law Firm in New York City representing such clients as Spacehog, the Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, Chuck D and Flava Flav of Public Enemy, the John Lennon Music Award, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Leon Gast, David Sonenberg, James Steinmen, MusicNet, Kool Mo Dee and the producers of the academy award winning film about Muhammad Ali and George Foreman,
"When We Were Kings."

Atomic Pop

In 1999, Ken relocated to Los Angeles as the Executive Vice President of Atomic Pop, LLC, an internet-based record company, way ahead of its time, that sought to provide a platform to distribute entertainment content through digital media.

At Atomic Pop Ken honed his business skills leading the company through complicated new media legal and business issues, acquisitions, strategic and financial planning, syndication, joint ventures and due
diligence management.

Schleimer & Freundlich

In 2000, when Atomic Pop imploded as the dot com bubble burst and Napster and MP3.com made the prospect of a legal downloading service untimely, Mr. Freundlich returned to the private practice of law and formed Schleimer & Freundlich, LLP.

For eight years, Schleimer & Freundlich, LLP represented clients in a myriad of complex entertainment matters including Snoop Dogg, Frank Wildhorn, Freddie and Christine Perren, Joan Severance, Courtney B. Vance, Nadja Solerno Sonnenberg, Leslie Stifelman, DIgab le Planets, David Yazbek, INXS, QVC, Music Reports, Inc., Carly Simon, the Estate of Ludwig Bemelmans, Robert Rafelson, Sean Altman, Sydnee Duran, and Arnold Preston in the landmark Supreme Court case of Preston v. Ferrer which guaranteed for managers the right to arbitrate, as opposed to litigate before the California Labor Commissioner, if arbitration is specified in a contract with an artist.

Mr. Freundlich represents Royalty Logic in its quest to compete with Sound Exchange as a collective under Section 114 of the United States Copyright Act. The matter is presently on appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court
of Appeal.

Freundlich Law II

Freundlich Law opened for business on October 1, 2008.

Mr. Freundlich is admitted to practice before the Courts of California (1985) and New York (1988), the United States District Courts for the Central District of California, the Southern District of California, the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Lecturer/Teacher

Legal and Practical Aspects of the Recording and the Publishing Industries

UCLA Extension, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, California

Music Marketing

UCLA Extension, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, California

Music Contracts

The Musicians Institute, Hollywood CA

Copyright Law

Guest Appearances at Loyola Law School and USC Film School lecturing on copyright law and
various issues

Panelist/Moderator

Mr. Freundlich has been a frequent panelist and moderator at conferences worldwide including as a
representative sample:

The Beverly Hills Bar Association, Beverly Hills, CA

NEMO Music Conference, Boston MA

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Perfect Pitch Misc Executive Seminar, Los Angeles, CA

CMJ Music Conference, New York, New York

ABA Sport and Entertainment Forum

Future of Music Coalition, Washington, D.C.

Berkman Center of Legal Studies, Cambridge, MA

California Lawyer for the Arts Music Business Seminar, Los Angeles, CA

The California Copyright Conference, Los Angeles, CA

The State Bar of California, Copyright Section

USC Entertainment Law Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Southern Regional Entertainment, Sprots and Intellectual Property Law Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Billboard R&B Conference, New York, New York

Practicing Law Institute New York, New York, and Los Angeles, CA