Dr. E. MICHAEL HARRINGTON: composer, musician, consultant, professor, is Music Business Program Faculty Chair at SAE Institute Nashville, He has taught courses in music entrepreneurship and the future of the music industry at the Berklee College of Music (2012-2014), intellectual property law and courses in music, music and entertainment industry, social media and technology at William Paterson University (2008-2012). He was Professor of Entertainment & Music Business in The Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University (2000-2008), and Professor of Music Theory, Composition & Ethnomusicology in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (1985-2000) at Belmont University. He was the 1995 Jemison Distinguished Professor of The Humanities at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, an endowed chair funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Jemison Family and UAB. He is a member of the Leadership Music Class of 2007 and has also taught at the University of Miami, the University of Pittsburgh and The Ohio State University. Eight (8) interviews of Harrington were selected as Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 Videos and are posted and streamed from NME.com.

He has taught training sessions at the Harvard University Law School, delivered the Keynote Address to the Texas Bar Association, been a guest speaker at the Boston Bar, Minnesota State Bar and delivered presentations at more than 160 international, national and regional meetings of more than 80 different organizations including the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Experience Music Project, Montreal Pop International Music Festival, the Copyright Society of the United States, Americana Music Association, Society for Ethnomusicology, American Musicological Society, College Music Society, Society for American Music, Music Library Association, European Union Film Festival, BrightTalk Copyright War Summit Keynote, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University (Ottawa), Leadership Nashville, Rotary International, the Digital Summit, the Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship, American Society for Business & Behavioral Sciences, the National Association of Recording Industry Professionals, Lipscomb Entrepreneurship Center, Indian Cultural Society, NEMO, the Millennium Music Conference, 2NMC, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the International Bluegrass Music Associat