Bob Kohn
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Bob Kohn currently serves as founder, Chairman & CEO of RoyaltyShare, Inc., an outsourced royalty processing solution for the music, book publishing, brand licensing, and motion picture industries.
Until recently, Kohn served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Borland Software Corporation where he previously served as senior vice president and general counsel. He also serves as Chairman of Laugh.com, a comedy record company he founded with comedian George Carlin.
In 1998, Kohn co-founded EMusic, the pioneering MP3 music-download service. EMusic sold its first downloadable music file for 99 cents on July 23, 1998. Once listed on NASDAQ under the symbol EMUS, the company was acquired in 2001 by Universal Music Group.
Prior to EMusic, Kohn served as vice president of business development for Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., the developer of the controversial PGP encryption software; senior vice president of corporate affairs and general counsel of Borland International, Inc.; associate general counsel of Candle Corporation, a mainframe software company; corporate counsel for Ashton-Tate, a personal computer software company, later acquired by Borland; and associate attorney at the law offices of Milton A. "Mickey" Rudin, an entertainment law firm.
Kohn served as associate editor (and is currently on the advisory board) of the Entertainment Law Reporter, a professional publication that provides monthly updates on legal developments affecting the entertainment industry.
Bibliography
- Kohn On Music Licensing (music publishing copyright law, Aspen Publishers, 2002) ISBN 073551447X
- (media criticism, Nelson Current, 2003) ISBN 0785261044
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