In story published by Billboard, Warner Music Group’s senior VP and head of digital legal affairs, Elliott Peters, is leaving the company for a position at Apple. Starting next month, Peters will become Apple’s corporate attorney director for iTunes Europe and Internet services (MobileMe). There he will manage the European legal team for both MobileMe and iTunes.
Peters was WMG’s first digital lawyer and has been with them since 2000,. “Since that time, Elliott has had a hand in almost every major WMG digital deal,” notes a memo distributed by the company’s general counsel.
