Charles Sanders

Entertainment and snow sports attorney Charles J. Sanders has served as outside counsel to the Songwriters Guild of America since 2005, and as an advisor to the international music creator group for North America (MCNA) and its global affiliate, CIAM, since 2012. Charlie likewise advises many other music & sports community non-profit groups, including Lincoln Center, the National Music Council, The Native American Music Association, and the International Ski History Association. For nearly two decades, Sanders previously served as counsel and executive VP to the National Music Publishers Association, during which time he principally oversaw the collection and distribution of over $4 billion in music royalties. He is licensed to practice in New York, California, Washington, DC, and before the US Supreme Court.

Among Sanders’ related pursuits, he is a former chairman and a thirty year board member of the music industry’s leading social justice outreach group, WhyHunger, the recipient of a 2014 Emmy Award for the copyright education short subject “Copy Kid,” a thirty-year voting member and former governor of NARAS (Grammy.com), a platinum award-winning producer, musician and author, and has served as an adjunct professor of music business at New York University for twenty-five years.

In addition, Sanders is one of the most widely travelled ski mountaineers in the world, and among the few persons ever to have recorded off-piste alpine ski descents on all seven continents. He was elected as a member of the board of the United States Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2012, is the author of the popular, award-winning history of the US ski troops in WWII, “The Boys of Winter,” and co-author of the book “Passion for Skiing: The History of Snow Sports at Dartmouth College.”

Charlie is also a founder of the James Madison Project (for Freedom of Information) based in Washington, DC.

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