Rick Marshall
Board Member
General Counsel, Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC)
BIO
Rick Marshall is General Counsel at The MLC, where he leads The MLC’s in-house legal team and coordinates all of the organizations internal and external legal matters.
Before joining The MLC, he was a senior member of Warner Music Group’s recorded music catalog legal affairs team and represented WMG on the recording industry’s union contract negotiating committee and in regulatory policy related initiatives.
Rick also served for several years as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of the General Counsel at the United States Copyright Office, where he worked on music-related initiatives that paved the way for the passing of the Music Modernization Act in 2018. Before entering the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law space, Rick served as Senior Staff Attorney to the Chief Judge at Florida’s First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, Florida.
He holds a Legal Masters degree in Intellectual Property Law from The George Washington University Law School and has been recognized by Billboard as a Top Music Lawyer and included in Variety’s list of Music Legal Elite.
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