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Ann Chaitovitz is the National Director of Sound Recordings at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the labor union representing recording singers, as well as performers and broadcasters in radio and television. She joined AFTRA in 1995 as National Representative/Staff Counsel, focusing on copyright and performers’ rights issues and oversaw the first contingent scale audits conducted under the AFTRA Sound Recordings Code. She was named Sound Recordings Director in 2001.

Based in Washington, D.C., Chaitovitz participates in intellectual property litigation and Copyright Office proceedings, including the Copyright Arbitration Rates Panels (CARP) to set rates for the digital performance of copyrighted sound recordings. She worked in alliance with the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) to ensure passage of the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act of 1998.

In the U.S., Chaitovitz has taken the lead role in lobbying for several artists’ rights issues including a bankruptcy bill that denied sound recording performers the same rights available to others who file for bankruptcy, ensuring that the harmful clause was subsequently dropped from the bill in conference committee. She worked to repeal the amendment to the “work made for hire’ definition, to ensure the direct payment of digital performance fees to artists and to change the structure of SoundExchange, so that artists would share control. Internationally, she works to assure that other countries respect the rights of U.S. performers and negotiates with foreign countries’ collecting societies to ensure that U.S. performers receive their share of royalties from that country.

She holds degrees from Amherst College (BA, cum laude) and New York University School of Law, serves on the Boards of SoundExchange and the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC), and participated in the American Assembly on “Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property.” Prior to joining AFTRA, Chaitovitz worked as a labor associate at New York law firm Milgrim, Thomajan & Lee, and then as a staff attorney at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), where she practiced copyright law.

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