Dr. E. Michael Harrington is a composer, musician, consultant, professor, and a course author and professor at Berklee Online.  He created the Berklee Online Music Business Capstone course, is in the process of creating the the Berklee Online graduate school Music Business Law class, and the Berklee Online Music Copyright Law MOOC, and has taught courses in music entrepreneurship, licensing, and the future of the music industry at Berklee Online (2012-present).  

He was Music Business Program Faculty Chair at SAE Institute Nashville from 2014-2017.  He taught intellectual property law and courses in music, music and entertainment industry, social media and technology at William Paterson University (2008-2012).  He was Professor of Entertainment & Music Business in The Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University (2000-2008), and Professor of Music Theory, Composition & Ethnomusicology in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (1985-2000) at Belmont University.  He was the 1995 Jemison Distinguished Professor of The Humanities at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, an endowed chair funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Jemison Family and UAB.  He is a member of the Leadership Music Class of 2007 and has also taught at the University of Miami, the University of Pittsburgh and The Ohio State University.  

Eight  interviews of Harrington were selected as Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 Videos and are posted and streamed from NME.com.

On January 23, 2018, his work as Expert Witness for the Plaintiffs in their effort to free “We Shall Overcome” from copyright came to fruition when, in a  settlement, “We Shall Overcome” was declared no longer under copyright and given back to the public.

For more information, visit gew.psu.edu