Words & Music Adds Director of Creative Licensing

Words & Music has added Mary Kate Melnick as Director of Creative Licensing. In this role, Melnick will be responsible for expanding the company’s synch licensing efforts and proactively building new relationships within the film, television, advertising and video game markets.
She previously worked as VP of Lip Sync Music, where she signed clients including Daptone Records, Amanda Palmer, Kishi Bashi and placed music with companies including Audi, Microsoft, Chase Bank, Starbucks, Target, Google, and Citibank.
Prior to her work at Lip Sync Music, Melnick worked in licensing for Beggars Group, where she handled licensing, sales and marketing at World’s Fair Music.
Words & Music is a full-service copyright administration company dedicated to protecting the intellectual property of songwriters and music publishers. Words & Music clients include Sea Gayle Music (Brad Paisley, Frank Rogers, Chris DuBois, Brandy Clark), Big Yellow Dog (Josh Kear, Shawn Camp, Al Anderson), Dierks Bentley, Dixie Chicks, Paul Overstreet, Jeff Cohen, Katrina Elam, Bonnie Baker and Luis Resto.