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Google Associate Legal Counsel, Music and Aggregated Licensing in London, United Kingdom
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a legal field, LLB degree, or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of post qualified experience as a solicitor.
Experience in private practice or in-house team in the UK.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience, either in-house or private practice, working on regulatory copyright and related matters in multiple EMEA jurisdictions, at the EU level, and analyzing and advising on proposed and current content regulation.
Experience, either in-house or private practice, with negotiation of other collective licensing or remuneration agreements for digital platforms.
Experience, either in-house or private practice, with negotiation of multi-territory music licensing agreements for digital platforms with record labels, music publishers, and collecting societies.
Excellent work ethic, organized with an analytical approach, and ability to manage projects simultaneously under deadline.
Excellent business judgment, strategic thinking, communication, and presentation skills.
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
The EMEA Music Legal Team is responsible for advising on all music licensing and related aggregated rights matters for YouTube and Google across EMEA including commercial, product, and regulatory matters.
We are part of a close-knit team of lawyers and legal professionals who operate on a global stage. YouTube, and many of Google's other innovative services, raise complex questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping YouTube and Google build innovative and impactful products around the world.
As a member of the EMEA Music Legal team, you will work at the cutting edge of licensing for music and other aggregated rights, supporting related policy development, providing product advice, helping to shape new content-creation and distribution models, working on a wide range of complex and impactful work streams for YouTube and YouTube Music, as well as other Google products.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Discuss, draft, and review multi-territorial music licensing and other aggregated rights agreements including with record labels, music publishers and local collecting societies, across all Google products, including YouTube and YouTube Music, whilst helping develop and drive licensing strategy, adapting regulatory developments.
Analyze local legal developments and upcoming legislation in order to advise Legal, Policy, Product, and other cross-functional colleagues on the implications for existing and new products and features.
Advise Business teams on legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures, company policies and procedures, and discussing agreement strategy for agreement renewals (and expiried).
Develop expertise in YouTube, YouTube Music, other relevant Google products, and build relationships with legal and cross-functional colleagues in our EMEA offices, the US, and other regions.
Support the continuous improvement of agreements, licensing frameworks, policy positions, and legal processes.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.