Music Law
Advises artists and music businesses on contracts, licensing, sample clearance, catalog matters and rights strategy.
Robert Ross
Managing partner, entertainment attorney
An entertainment attorney building where music, business, technology and intellectual property meet.
About
The man behind the board.
Robert “Double R” Ross brings roughly three decades of entertainment law to every deal.
His practice focuses on music law, AI music rights, catalog transactions, mediation and arbitration. He holds a JD/LLM from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA in Finance from Fisk University.
He leads with plain-language deal-making, proactive protection and a long view of the artists and catalogs behind every transaction.
Through R&R Entertainment and the wider District Opposites ecosystem, Robert works across legal counsel, management, rights strategy and the business infrastructure around artists and intellectual property. Vanity Projects sits inside that ecosystem, a production company he co-founded with a Brazil-based creative partner.
- BaseWashington, D.C.
- EducationGeorgetown JD/LLM, Fisk BA
- ExperienceAbout 30 years in entertainment law
- Core practiceMusic, AI, IP
- CompanyR&R Entertainment
What he does
Three areas of practice.
Counsel for artists, catalogs and the new rights questions around AI.
AI Music Rights
Works where artificial intelligence, music, characters and intellectual property meet, and on the business structures around them.
ADR and Counsel
Consultation, mediation and arbitration, with a focus on resolving complex entertainment and rights matters.
His approach
“The board is set. Know your piece.”
Know the board, know your piece, protect your players. The work starts with understanding who owns what, what is at risk and what needs protecting before the deal moves forward.
Plain language. Proactive protection. Long-game thinking.
Selected highlights
The work so far.
A legal practice, a holding company and the infrastructure behind the roster.
The holding company
District Opposites LLC sits above a wider ecosystem of music, media, legal, AI and intellectual property ventures.
Catalog and rights strategy
Licensing, sample clearance, catalog transactions and rights planning for a changing music industry.
Protecting AI creators
Legal and business infrastructure for AI artists, AI characters and the rights around their work.
Building the artist infrastructure
Part of the management, production and business framework that supports the roster.
Legal and management
Representation for AI artists
Rights, contracts and management for the talent we build, and for yours.
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