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Todd Brabec is Executive Vice President and Director of Membership for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the world’s largest performing rights organization. He is in charge of all of the Society’s membership operations throughout the world including more than 260,000 U.S. composers, lyricists and music publishers, hundreds of thousands of affiliated writers and publishers worldwide and oversees offices in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, and Puerto Rico. He is a former Board member of the LA Chapter of NARAS, the Academy of Country Music, and the California Copyright Conference, and is the Division Chair for the Music and Personal Appearance section for the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.
Jeff Brabec is Vice President of Business Affairs for The Chrysalis Music Group where he specializes in evaluating, analyzing, and negotiating music publishing acquisitions. He has negotiated more than 1,000 movie, television, video, new technology, and advertising commercial agreements for chart writers/recording artists. Brabec is contributing editor to Entertainment Law & Finance magazine and has been head of business affairs for Polygram Music, the Welk Music Group, and the Arista-Interworld Music Groups, as well as a legal services attorney.
The Brabecs, winners of the Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism, have had more than 200 articles published, including the NARAS Journal, the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers Handbook, and the Entertainment, Publishing, and the Arts Handbook, Entertainment, Law and Finance, The Hollywood Reporter; Playback, The New York Law Journal, Advertising Age, Canadian Musician, and Recording magazine as well as many others.
The Brabecs are former recording artists, as well as entertainment lawyers, and are graduates of the New York University School of Law. They are Adjunct Associate Professors/Music Industry Department at the USC Thornton School of Music where they teach the course on the business of music publishing, motion pictures, television, and recording. They both lecture extensively at universities, conventions, conferences, seminars, law firms, management firms, songwriter associations, business and law schools, and ad agencies on all aspects of the business, legal and money side of music.
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