Walter F. McDonough

Walter F. McDonough is the General Counsel and one of the founders of the Future of Music Coalition (www.futureofmusic.org) and a board member of the United States performing rights organization Sound Exchange (www.soundexchange.com) and the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC). He has written for several publications, including Performer Magazine, and has been interviewed by National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Billboard, the Boston Globe, Music Business International, the Washington Post and several other newspapers and magazines. Mr. McDonough has spoken and lectured at many conferences and universities including Canadian Music Week, CMJ, the Future of Music Coalition Policy Conference, Harvard Law School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and South by Southwest. He also is an attorney in Boston and an adjunct professor of copyright law at Suffolk University Law School and Northeastern University. Mr. McDonough is a former associate at Carroll, Guido & Groffman in New York City, a former assistant Massachusetts Attorney General and law clerk for the Honorable Edward F. Harrington of the United States Court for the District of Massachusetts.