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Richard Conlon, Vice President, New Media and Strategic Development
Richard Conlon heads up BMI’s New Media and Strategic Development Group. The team manages the development of revenue streams for BMI’s songwriters and music publishers in the digital world across all new media applications. The group also spearheads analysis, planning and strategic development for BMI’s future directions in the media and entertainment worlds.
Conlon is responsible for managing BMI’s digital interests in the U.S. and around the world. Under his direction, BMI’s New Media group has created agreements for a wide variety of leading digital media properties including Yahoo, MSN, AOL, MP3.com, Napster, Rhapsody and others. In addition, the team has negotiated royalty agreements with leading mobile entertainment providers ranging from carriers to aggregators for mobile TV, ringbacks and other entertainment and information services delivered to cell phones. Conlon’s team also created the first music industry online licensing utility, the Digital Licensing Center, offering totally electronic click-through copyright licensing agreements.
An executive with BMI for over 15 years, Conlon holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and B.A. in English from Boston College.
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