UCLA Music Industry 2026-27 Part-Time Lecturer: Capstone

Position overview Position title: Lecturer Salary range: See Table #15 for the salary range for this position. [T15] A reasonable estimate for this position is $73,817 - $96,314. Review timeline: Applications will be reviewed by the search committee as they are submitted with a deadline of August 28, 2026, for Fall quarter employment. Open date: July 28, 2026 Next review date: Friday, Aug 28, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Final date: Friday, Aug 28, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Applications will continue to be accepted until this date. Position description The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music invites applications for a part-time Lecturer in Music Industry for the Fall quarter of the 2026-27 academic year to teach Music Industry 104B, Legal and Business Aspects of Music Publishing, for undergraduate students in the Music Industry major. The course assumes knowledge of copyright history and fundamentals and covers songwriter and co-publishing agreements, domestic licensing across records, film, television, print, commercials, and digital platforms, foreign sub-publishing and collection societies, and administration relationships with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR, and mechanical licensing bodies. Strong candidates will have current, hands-on experience negotiating songwriter or co-publishing deals, administering catalogs, structuring sync and licensing agreements, or working through the collection and distribution of royalties in the streaming era. Applicants should be prepared to bring live deal structures and current market practice into the classroom to demonstrate how publishing deals are actually being written today, how digital and social platforms have changed sync licensing, how catalog acquisitions and administration deals are structured, and how songwriters and their teams navigate an evolving royalty landscape. Familiarity with how AI-generated content, sampling, and interpolation disputes are currently reshaping publishing agreements is a strong plus Responsibilities include developing and teaching the course, assignments and grading, student mentoring, and keeping content aligned with current industry practice. Applications must include: #J-18808-Ljbffr University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA)