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Valerie Lovely
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Valerie Lovely is an associate professor in the Music Business/Management Department at Berklee College of Music and a practicing transactional music attorney. Her clientele is limited exclusively to musicians, songwriters, publishers, record labels, and others with music law needs. The firm provides various transactional music law services, such as contract drafting, negotiation and explanations, copyrights, trademarks, band business evaluation reports, and other music business and legal services. Lovely also hosts a free informational website that provides music law articles of interest to today's musicians.
Lovely has been a guest speaker, panelist, and lecturer at a variety of events sponsored by legal- and music-based organizations, including the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Berklee College of Music, and Blacksun Festival. She has taught copyright law to attorneys as a member of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts faculty.
Lovely has also been a musician for most of her life. She plays several instruments, has performed in rock bands, chamber groups, wind ensembles, and in studio projects, and has composed music in various styles and for use in a variety of media.