Ramona P. DeSalvo
Assisitant Professor
Copyright Law
Office: Ezell 102-B
Phone: 615.898.5304
Email: rdesalvo@mtsu.edu
Professor DeSalvo specializes in entertainment law, intellectual property and copyright litigation; she teaches copyright law.
DeSalvo attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her A.B. degree in Political Science. She attended the University of San Francisco law school for two years, transferring to the University of Cincinnati College of Law upon her appointment as a Fellow at the Morgan Institute for Human Rights. Upon graduation from law school, DeSalvo has been admitted to practice in Tennessee, Ohio and California practicing as a trial attorney. Pursuing her interest in music, DeSalvo later owned a licensed California talent agency and worked as a booking agent, concert promoter and manager. DeSalvo maintained offices in Carmel, California and Nashville, Tennessee, making the move to Nashville complete in 1997. She maintained a Music Row law practice for several years before joining the Nashville law firm of King & Ballow. She has been involved in complex copyright litigation matters including the Bridgeport Music litigation which addressed cutting edge issues in music sampling.
DeSalvo is a member of the Copyright Society of the South, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, CMA, Nashville Independent Administrators, and remains a music publisher and editor of King & Ballow’s monthly publication, Entertainment Comment.
