Guest Speaker: Mary Lauren Teague - "Getting Real About Pub Deals" | In-Person + Streaming Online

LOCATION: 1710 Roy Acuff Pl. Nashville, TN 37203

TIME: Doors will open at 5:15pm CT / Event will begin at 5:45pm CT

If you are unable to attend this workshop in person, please note that it will be available for live streaming and uploaded to our Content Libary for later viewing. 

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ABOUT MARY LAUREN TEAGUE: 

Mary Lauren Teague is a music business professor, attorney, and consultant who moved to Nashville almost twenty years ago to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.  She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Business at Belmont University and Owner of Dotted i Entertainment, where she advises and counsels Nashville creatives. As a practicing music attorney, she brings her experiences of representing recording artists, legacy artists, songwriters, publishing companies, producers, and other entertainment and media companies to the table in all her various capacities.

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TOPIC:

On Guest Speaker Nights, NSAI hosts guests ranging from songwriters to other music industry professionals to speak. This is a casual, laid back hour where the guests will talk about their journey in the music industry and allow members to ask questions. Mary Lauren will also be covering the basics of publishing deals and key terms. She will explain how a pub deal works, what co-publishing is, advances, royalties, and so much more!

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*NSAI does not require you to wear a mask, but we encourage you to do what feels most comfortable.

GUEST ATTENDEES:

NSAI non-members are permitted to observe two workshops prior to joining to experience what NSAI is about. If you have attended more than two workshops as a non-member, you will be asked to join NSAI as a member to fully benefit from membership and attend future events. 

PARKING:

Limited parking will be available in the NSAI parking lot. 

Additional parking is available on the street and in neighboring paid lots. 

MORE ABOUT MARY LAUREN TEAGUE:

Mary Lauren Teague is a music business professor, attorney, and consultant who moved to Nashville almost twenty years ago to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.  She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Business at Belmont University and Owner of Dotted i Entertainment, where she advises and counsels Nashville creatives. As a practicing music attorney, she brings her experiences of representing recording artists, legacy artists, songwriters, publishing companies, producers, and other entertainment and media companies to the table in all her various capacities.

Mary Lauren graduated summa cum laude from the music business program at Belmont University and later earned her law degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Her career in law began with a wide array of entertainment-related matters, including copyright infringement cases and estate planning and probate for entertainers, before focusing solely on transactional music law at Loeb & Loeb, LLP.

In 2019, she launched Dotted i Entertainment, managing a Grammy-award-winning artist and a producer/songwriter. Through her experiences practicing law and managing clients, she developed a diverse wealth of knowledge regarding all facets of the entertainment business, including not only music-related endeavors but also television, film, and book publishing. 

As an adjunct professor at Belmont from 2017 to 2020, Mary Lauren fell in love with teaching and being back on Belmont’s campus. In 2020, she joined Belmont’s full-time faculty as an Assistant Professor of Music Business. At Belmont, she teaches Survey of Music Business, Music Publishing, and Internship & Career Foundations. She is passionate about educating the next generation of industry leaders. Her article, “Keeping America Singing: Key Entertainment and Music Industry Themes During and Post-Pandemic” was published in the 2021 edition of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA) journal, and her paper, “Same Song, Different Verse: Evolution of the Entertainment and Music Industry in the COVID Era” was presented at the 2022 International Summit of MEIEA. She has been selected to present two additional papers at the 2023 International Summit of MEIEA later this year. Additionally, she serves on the Catalog & Curriculum committee for Belmont’s Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business, ensuring that students are offered classes that focus on today’s most cutting-edge and pressing entertainment issues.

With a heart for helping others, Mary Lauren is involved in many organizations in the Middle Tennessee community. She currently serves as Membership Co-Chair of SOURCE, Nashville’s longest running organization for women in the music business, on its Board of Directors. She also served for the past five years on the leadership team of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Troubadour Society Advisory Council, chairing the Council in 2019 and 2020. As a member of the Tennessee Bar Association’s entertainment section, she has served on the Executive Council for the past seven years, planning and participating in continuing legal education (CLE) seminars for entertainment attorneys across Tennessee. She is a proud alumna of the Society of Leaders in Development (SOLID) and the Davidson County Young Leaders Council, previously serving on the Board of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville. She currently volunteers with Siloam Health Nashville, serving as a resource and friend for a local Afghan refugee family.

She has been honored by the Nashville Business Journal as one of Nashville’s “Top 40 Under 40” and a recipient of the “Women in Music City” award.  She was named to the “Up Next” list of emerging leaders in entertainment law in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report” and as a “Rising Star in Entertainment & Sports” by Mid-South Super Lawyers.  Additionally, she was a Nashville Emerging Leader Award finalist, selected for the GRAMMY Next Class by the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy, and selected for MusicRow’s “Next Big Thing” music industry directory. In her free time, Mary Lauren loves to spend time outdoors with her husband, Daniel, daughter, Mary Fran, and their rescued labradoodle named Ellie.  

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