Ann Harrison Author & Editor

Ann Harrison is a Partner at SSB Solicitors Limited, a leading boutique law firm that specializes in music law, wider entertainment law, sponsorship and branding. She is a highly experienced lawyer who is well known across the UK music industry and regarded as expert in all aspects of music business contracts, copyright, protection of IP rights, et al. Ann is author of Music: The Business (8th Edition, pending 2021), the key textbook on all music business further education courses in the UK. She is a guest Lecturer at many UK further education institutions and a Leader in Residence at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Ann is recognised as a Leading Practitioner in the Chambers and Partners 2021 Legal Services Guide. Tony Rigg is a Music Industry Practitioner, Business Consultant and Educator affiliated with the University of Central Lancashire, UK, where he leads the Master of Arts Programme in Music Industry Management. He is also Head of Music Business Education at the School of Electronic Music, UK. He has occupied senior management roles in market-leading organizations including Operations Director for Ministry of Sound, overseen the management of more than one hundred music venues and delivered thousands of music events. As an artist/ producer he has a chart pedigree with tracks featured on chart-topping and gold-selling albums. His notable publications include Popular Music in the Post-digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology (2018), The Future of Live Music (2020) and The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (2021), which he co-edited with Ewa Mazierska and Les Gillon and The Present and Future of Music Law (2021), which he co-edited with Ann Harrison.