Bob Kohn currently serves as founder, Chairman & CEO of RoyaltyShare, Inc., an outsourced royalty processing solutions to the music, book publishing, brand licensing, and motion picture industries.

Until recently, Kohn served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Borland Software Corporation where he previously served as senior vice president and general counsel. He also serves as Chairman of Laugh.com, a comedy record company he founded with comedian George Carlin. Borland Software Corporation (formerly Borland International, Inc. ... George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937) is a Grammy-winning Irish American stand-up comedian, actor, and author, noted especially for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology and religion along with many taboo subjects. ...

In 1998, Kohn co-founded EMusic, the pioneering MP3 music-download service. EMusic sold its first downloadable music file for 99 cents on July 23, 1998. Once listed on NASDAQ under the symbol EMUS, the company was acquired in 2001 by Universal Music Group. eMusic is an online music store that operates by subscription. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardized in 1991 by a team of engineers directed by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Universal Music Group (UMG), formerly MCA Music Entertainment (see Music Corporation of America), is the largest major label in the record industry. ...

Prior to EMusic, Kohn served as vice president of business development for Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., the developer of the controversial PGP encryption software; senior vice president of corporate affairs and general counsel of Borland International, Inc.; associate general counsel of Candle Corporation, a mainframe software company; corporate counsel for Ashton-Tate, a personal computer software company, later acquired by Borland; and associate attorney at the law offices of Milton A. "Mickey" Rudin, an entertainment law firm. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program which provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. ... PGP is a computer program which provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. ... In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. ... Ashton-Tate (Ashton-Tate Corporation) is a former US based software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application. ...

Kohn served as associate editor (and is currently on the advisory board) of the Entertainment Law Reporter, a professional publication that provides monthly updates on legal developments affecting the entertainment industry.

Kohn is a published author. He co-wrote Kohn On Music Licensing and Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted. Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted is a book by Bob Kohn with a thesis similar to that of Bernard Goldbergs Bias. ...

External links

• Bob Kohn's home page