Fred Davis

Fred Davis is a founding partner of CODE Advisors. Previously he founded the leading music law firm of Davis, Shapiro, Lewit, Montone & Hayes, Fred Davis represented some of today’s most successful and recognizable stars in the areas of rock, hip-hop and pop for the firm, which boasts offices in New York, Beverly Hills and San Francisco. A graduate of Tufts University with a degree from the Fordham School of Law, Davis is also one of the leading experts in the burgeoning area of digital music, rights and distribution. His current clients included SNOCAP, the digital rights management firm started by Napster founder Shawn Fanning, as well as Macrovision, Real Networks, Loudeye and Blingtones. Davis has been on the front lines of the Recording Industry’s tumultuous attempt to harness the power of the Internet by monetizing the explosion of interest in digital music downloads and subscription. As legal representative for many of the leading recording artists in the music industry, Davis is eager to balance the demands of monetizing the exploitation of his clients’ intellectual property and helping digital media companies provide the answers for the thorny issues of piracy, copyright infringement and distribution. Formerly an Executive Vice President at EMI Records. Fred Davis has received the ACLU’s Bill of Rights Award and the UJA’s Music Visionary of the Year Award, and was a member of the Board of Directors for the 9/11 Fund. He lives in New York City.