Todd Brabec, former ASCAP Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership, is an Entertainment Law attorney, an award winning author of the best selling music business book "Music Money and Success: the Insiders Guide to Making Money in the Music Business"(7th edition/Schirmer Books), an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC where he teaches the course on Music Licensing, Music Publishing and Film, Television and Video Game Scoring and Song Contracts and is a Governing Committee member of the American Bar Association Entertainment and Sports Industries.
During his 37 year ASCAP career, he was responsible for signing most of ASCAP's successful songwriters and film and television composers including Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Neil Young, Metallica, Tom Petty, James Taylor, Journey, Joni Mitchell, Hans Zimmer(Pirates of the Caribbean), James Horner(Avatar, Titanic),James Newton Howard(Dark Knight), Randy Newman(Toy Story) and Alan Silvestri(Marvel's Avengers) among many others as well as increasing ASCAP's market share from 20% to market share competitive dominance in radio, television and worldwide top grossing feature films. In addition, he significantly changed most of ASCAP's distribution, payment and survey systems as well as eliminating practically all ASCAP payment and distribution policies, formulas and rules which were not in the best interests of songwriters and composers. He lectures extensively throughout the world at conferences, universities, foreign societies, law firms and management companies and has over 400 published articles on the business and law of Music and Entertainment. Website: musicandmoney.com. Contact:toddbrabec@gmail.com.