Annie Lin, Attorney, Brave Noise Legal

Annie Lin is a San Francisco-based attorney with more than a decade of business experience in content licensing, rights management, digital media distribution, entertainment branding and music supervision. Her diverse background includes both dealmaking and problem-solving for enterprises in music, film, advertising and new media.

As a rights consultant, Annie has helped startups, game developers, advertisers, brands and marketing companies develop cost-effective licensing strategies and find solutions to complex rights issues. Her work as a licensing director with San Francisco-based rights clearance company The Rights Workshop encompassed both traditional and emerging media, with projects ranging from webisodes to corporate videos to virtual world gaming, for companies such as CISCO, Microsoft, HP, VMWare and RedBana.

As a music supervisor for film and television, Annie’s credits include narrative features such as “Lovely, Still”, “Half Life”, “Putty Hill”, “Flying Lessons” and “Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead” (20th Century Fox), and documentary films such as “Marwencol”, “Have You Heard from Johannesburg”, “Copyright Criminals” (ITVS) and “Down The Barrel” (ESPN Films).

Prior to moving to Bay Area, Annie helped launch the licensing division of The Orchard, a New York City-based digital distributor of independent music. As director of creative licensing, she was instrumental in building the company’s creative licensing ventures and establishing the business as a major player in the synchronization licensing space. Her music placements can be seen in numerous films, television shows, advertisements and interactive media projects, for brand properties such as Target, British Airways, Lexus and Crayola, and programs including “The Wire”, “Dexter” and “CSI:Miami”.

Annie came to the entertainment industry through her early career as a touring artist and performing singer-songwriter, and released three albums independently. She has worked in the Texas civil courts, as well as a variety media entities including Citysearch (a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp), Cherry Lane Music Publishing and Juris Publishing. After graduating with a B.A. from Rice University, she studied intellectual property and entertainment law, earning a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center.

Annie is a member of the California Bar and speaks Spanish and Chinese. She is a co-founder of the San Francisco Mixtape Society.