Candidate for The MLC's Board of Directors

LIDIA KIM

Lidia Kim is Senior Vice President of Digital Business and Legal Affairs, at the independent music publisher, Concord Music Publishing. Lidia chairs The MLC’s Operations Advisory Committee, working with music publishers and digital music providers to help The MLC address operational challenges in digital mechanical licensing. She is committed to working collaboratively and pragmatically to protect the value of music copyrights and get songwriters paid fairly and through transparent practices.  

Lidia currently looks after the global digital music publishing matters for Concord, including partnership development, licensing, and rights enforcement. She leads the related business initiatives for Concord, leveraging her legal training and experience in copyright law and the music publishing business, to form strategy and corporate policy to expand digital revenue streams and improve operational efficiency. Lidia started out in music publishing just over 11 years ago as an in-house lawyer for Imagem, including the classical music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes. Over time, she has worked on songwriter and catalog acquisition deals, joint venture partnerships such as with Pulse, licensing, corporate governance matters, and she has supported various corporate transitions, including as the interim board member of the Music Publishers Association for Boosey and with the restructuring of the global publishing network. She played a key role in the merging of Imagem’s global, full-service publishing business with Concord Bicycle, an acquisition which nearly tripled the catalog of owned or administered works to 380,000. She also helped guide Concord Music Publishing’s transformation into a leading independent publisher representing songwriters and composers of over 1 million works.  

Lidia is dedicated to community service, artist advocacy and supporting innovation in the arts and entertainment industry. Before Concord, Lidia educated artists and artist organizations on copyright law, business formation, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) support and established the U.S. patent pro bono program at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York, which was awarded by the USPTO in 2024 for financially supporting under-resourced inventors and small businesses. Lidia serves as a mentor in the Notre Dame IP Law Society mentorship program as an alumnus.