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Mondo.NYC Speaker

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Melissa Bortnick

Melissa Bortnick

Managing Counsel, Music, Epic Games, Inc.

Melissa Rassas Bortnick currently serves as Managing Counsel, Music at Epic Games, Inc., the publisher of games like Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys. Her primary focus is on music products and features, interactive experiences and music licensing strategy. Ms. Bortnick's prior experience includes video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., electronic music festival roll-up company SFX Entertainment, Inc., White & Case LLP, the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of General Counsel. She received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Certificate of Study from the Wharton School of Business. She also graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. She is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey.

Mondo 2024 Panels

Fireside Chat: Epic Games' Melissa Bortnick & Adrian Perry

Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 10:00 AM

Adrian Perry will conduct a fireside chat with Melissa Bortnick, Managing Counsel of Music at Epic Games, the publisher of games like Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys, to discuss the evolution of music deals in video games, from the era of commissioning simplistic instrumentals to the more recent licensing of fixed soundtracks to the 2024 launch of Festival, an always-on rotating wheel of interactive music.

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