Ivan Parron
Entertainment & Sports LawyerMr. Parron has over 20+ years of executive and legal experience in the television, music and motion picture industries. He is the past-chair of the Florida Bar Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law section, a board member of the Miami-Dade County Film & Entertainment Advisory Board and an elected Grammy Governor of the Recording Academy. Prior to opening his law firm and his tenure at Universal Music Group as in-house attorney, Mr. Parron served as CEO & founder of Ritmoteca.com, Inc., the worlds first legal source for downloadable Latin music via the Internet and mobile networks. Mr. Parron is often credited as being the inventor of the online music store as the company was an early predecessor to the now highly successful Apple iTunes business model. Mr. Parron helped pioneer the deal structure for digital distribution of music, signing digital distribution agreements with over 60 top independent record labels and aggregating exclusive digital rights to over 600,000 music tracks and videos including exclusive digital distribution rights to catalogs of artists like Tito Puente, Marc Anthony and Celia Cruz. His vision and business savy also led his company to become the first Latin music venture to sign digital music distribution deals with the major record labels including Sony Music, BMG Music, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, securing his position as a dealmaker. Under his leadership, Ritmoteca forged strategic alliances with companies including Microsoft, AOL, Real Networks, Nokia, Motorola, MusicNet and Napster. Mr. Parron built the company up to 200 employees with satellite offices in Europe backed by private and institutional investors including Bain Capital in Boston. Prior to Ritmoteca, Mr. Parron founded Internet Marketing Consultants in 1994. He consulted for international media brands including MTV, Nickelodeon & Discovery Channel.
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- Intellectual Property
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Antitrust Law
- Media
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- District of Columbia
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- Florida
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- New York
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- 2nd Circuit
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- 11th Circuit
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- Florida Southern District Bankruptcy Court
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- U.S. Tax Court
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- English: Spoken, Written
- French: Spoken
- Italian: Spoken
- Portuguese: Spoken
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
- Chief Legal Officer
- PARRON LAW | Entertainment + Sports
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- Entertainment, Media & Sports Law Firm
- In-house Counsel
- Universal Music Group
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- Florida International University College of Law
- J.D. (2005) | Entertainment & Sports Law; Business Law; Intellectual Property; Antitrust
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- Florida International University
- B.B.A. (1994) | Marketing & International Business
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- Honors: Recipient of Charles E. Perry Visionary Torch Award; Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame Nominee
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- Florida State University
- A.A. (1989) | Computer Science
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- Top 100 Sports Law Firms
- Hackney Publications
- Best Lawyers - Sports Law
- US News
- Super Lawyers - Entertainment & Sports (Florida)
- Thomson Reuters
- Super Lawyers - Entertainment & Sports (New York)
- Thomson Reuters
- Top 50 Music Industry Attorneys
- Billboard Magazine
- Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Miami-Dade County Film & Entertainment Advisory Board Member
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- Activities: Appointed by County Commissioner to the Miami-Dade County Film & Entertainment Advisory Board
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- City of Miami Beach, Florida
- City of Miami Beach Production Industry Council Member
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- Activities: Appointed by City Commissioner as member of the City of Miami Beach Entertainment Production Industry Council.
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- Television Academy
- Active Member / Emmys Voter
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- National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
- Grammy Governor/ Executive Board Member
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- Activities: Elected as Grammy Governor/ Executive Board Member 2011-2012 by his peers at the Recording Academy, purveyor of the Grammy Awards.
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- The Florida Bar Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section
- Executive Board Member/ Treasurer
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- Activities: Elected by peers as executive board member and treasurer in 2010-2011 and again in 2011-2012.
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- Florida State Bar # 21203
- Member
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- Dade County Bar Association
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- American Bar Association
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- Safekeeping: Protecting Your TV Show Idea
- American Bar Association
- Kim Kardashian's Face-Off with Old Navy
- The Huffington Post
- How Private Are Anthony Weiner's Privates?
- The Huffington Post
- NFL Player Agent & Contract Advisor
- NFLPA
- NBA Player Agent & Contract Advisor
- NBPA
- Real Estate Salesman
- Florida DBPR
- Sports Agent
- Florida DBPR
- Talent Agent
- Florida DBPR
- Q. What can be my counter proposal when a publishing company that wants to have my music recordings in their catalogue
- A: Moral rights or “Droit Morale” is originally a French law concept that is not recognized under US law. It is only applicable in certain European counties (or Countries recognizing the concept). However, it is pretty standard in all US contracts related to intellectual property (particularly music, TV and film) for an author to waive such rights in order to avoid potential foreign litigation in a venue that would allow the author to withhold and control certain rights. There really is no “counter” and the publisher will likely refuse to enter into the agreement unless the author agrees to waive their moral rights.
- Q. Do we need to lawyer up at this point?
- A: Should have consulted with a lawyer prior to communicating anything with the employer or turning anything over. Whatever agreements may have been executed between the parties prior to or after the termination should be factually determinative if anything expressed in writing exists.
- Q. If I write my own lyrics and generate music free Suno AI,can I,usethe resulting song in YouTube videos without copyright
- A: Like everything else “It Depends.” If the lyrics are 100% yours then you are good to go with that. If the AI generates original music for your lyrics, you are fine too. However, if the AI scraped previous copyright protected recordings like “X” and/or if you asked the AI, for instance to “make me a song that sounds like “X” and “X” is a copyright protected song, you could open yourself up to being sued by the owner of the “X” copyright. In addition, if AI generates original music 100% on its own, you may not be able to copyright it. This is all a very new and still gray area of the law.
