Jason Ryan Boyarski is an American entertainment attorney specializing in the music industry. He is best known for representing the estate of deceased American recording artist and songwriter Prince where he negotiated a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group for the administration of Prince's music publishing catalog and separately with Irving Azoff's Global Music Rights for a performance-rights deal.
Boyarski works primarily in entertainment and media, though he has worked in intellectual property, business/corporate and technology interactions. Boyarski is currently a partner in the New York-based law firm Boyarski Fritz LLP, which he co-founded with entertainment attorney David Frtiz. In addition to the Prince estate, Boyarski Fritz LLP has several notable clients such as BMG, Disney Music, Adam Alpert/Disruptor Records, Marc Anthony, Joan Jett and Blackheart Records, Jingle Punks Music and MusiXmatch.
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Education and Early Career
Jason Ryan Boyarski was born in 1974 to New York city natives, Ellie and Joel Boyarski. He began attending Emory University in Atlanta in 1992. While attending Emory University, Boyarski was a student representative and worked as an intern at Sony Music Entertainment's Atlanta office. Boyarski graduated from Emory University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Business Administration. Following his graduation, Boyarski began employment at NBC where he worked as a production assistant for NBC's Today Show. Shortly thereafter, Boyarski joined Sony Music's 550 Music label where he served in the Promotions Department and worked on projects including artists Celine Dion, Ben Folds Five, and Ginuwine.
Boyarski began attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York in 1997, graduating cum laude in 2000 with a focus on intellectual property law. Boyarski was also honored as a member of the Order of the Coif for finishing in the top 10% of his law school graduating class. Additionally, Boyarski was the Administrative Editor of the Cardozo Law Review where he published a law review note "The Heist of Feist: Protection for Collections of Information and the Possible Federalization of 'Hot News'". During law school, Boyarski worked as a law clerk at Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP and also served as a Summer Associate for the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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Career
Upon graduating law school, Boyarski was employed at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as an Associate in the Trade Practices & Regulatory Law Department. During his time employed at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Boyarski published several articles in various law related publications. Boyarski left Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in 2002 and began working at BMG Music Publishing in New York, where he was employed as a associate director for legal and business affairs. Between 2002 and 2006, Boyarski was promoted to senior director for legal and business affairs by BMG Music Publishing before being promoted to vice president for legal and business affairs in 2006.
Following UMG's acquisition of BMG in late 2006, Boyarski remained as the vice president for legal and business affairs for Universal Music Publishing Group until 2008 where Boyarski was hired by Warner/Chappell Music as Senior Vice President and GM. In 2008, Boyarski also separately co-founded the marketing agency HeadOverHeels Collective. Boyarski left Warner/Chappell in 2011, soon co-founding the New York-based law firm Boyarski Fritz LLP with entertainment attorney David Fritz in November 2011. The firm specializes in deal-making and transactions and its client roster include Grammy winners, Fortune 500 Companies, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees and New York Times best sellers.
Representation of Prince's estate
On April 21, 2016, American musician Prince passed away, Boyarski was hired by the bank and Special Administrator of Prince's estate, Bemer Trust, to help negotiate a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group for the rights to Prince's vast music publishing catalog. Boyarski was able to finalize a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group in October 2016 which was valued at thirty million dollars. Additionally, before his death, Prince had withdrawn from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 2014 which left his catalog without any performance rights society. In January 2017, Boyarski was able to reach an agreement with Irving Azoff's Global Music Rights for performance-rights. The deals allowed both Global Music Rights and Universal Music Publishing to cover a catalog of Prince songs which included "Purple Rain," "1999," "When Doves Cry" and "Raspberry Beret." In the same month, a Minnesotan judge ruled that Comerica Bank would begin overseeing Prince's estate and under Comerica, Boyarski began to focus on Prince's other intellectual property rights and became the overall entertainment attorney for the estate.
Personal life
Boyarski was engaged to Robin Alissa Katz, a manager at MTV in 2001. The couple had met in high school and eventually reconnected at a concert for the Haitian musician, Wyclef Jean in 1997.Shortly after he began employment at BMG Music Publishing, Boyarski married fiancée, Robin Alissa Katz at the Essex House in New York City. Boyarski lives in Brookville, New York with his wife Robin and two children Alex and Jordan.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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