Dr. E. Michael Harrington is Music Business Program Faculty Chair at SAE Nashville. He has created and taught courses at the Berklee College of Music, Belmont University, UAB, and William Paterson University and frequently teaches training sessions at Harvard Law School. In 2014 & 2015, he was requested and gave testimony on copyright law revision to the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office, U. S. Copyright Office and the U. S. Dept. of Commerce. He is on the Advisory Board of the Future of Music Coalition, a member of Leadership Music and owner of E Michael Music.com.

He has worked as consultant and expert witness in hundreds of music copyright/IP matters involving parties including the Dixie Chicks, Adele, Vince Gill, Steven Spielberg, Steve Perry, Sting, Samsung, Tupac, Lady Gaga, Deadmau5, Busta Rhymes, HBO, U. S. Postal Service and others, delivered lectures at law schools, organizations and universities throughout the U. S. & Canada including Harvard, Yale, Boston College, Cardozo, GWU, Boston Bar, Texas Bar, Minnesota Bar, Future of Music Coalition, McGill, Carelton, Experience Music Project and others, and been interviewed by media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Law, Bravo, CNN, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, the "Today Show," Time, Huffington Post, Fortune, Inc Magazine, Bio Channel, Ovation, NPR, the Associated Press, Salon, PC Magazine, Billboard, PBS, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Barely Legal Radio and others.