Sam Howard-Spink is Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Business in NYU Steinhardt's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. His research interests include the political economy of international music industries and emerging business models, national and supranational intellectual property policies, globalization and cultural hybridity, remix/mashup culture, the Access to Knowledge and 'copyfight' social movements, online social networks, cultural economics in North America and Brazil, and music in video games.A Londoner by birth and New Yorker since 1999, Sam is completing his PhD dissertation on musical and copyright economies and cultural hybridization in the U.S., Brazil and Canada through NYU's Department of Media, Culture and Communication. A journalist and editor for 16 years in the U.K., Asia and the U.S., Sam is currently North America Editor of international newsletter Music & Copyright, and has written for Music Week, The Guerrilla Guide to the Music Industry, The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, IBM Think Research and openDemocracy.net. Sam is also a hiphop/scratch DJ and an expert at Guitar Hero.