Intellectual Property

Media Entertainment & Sports

Published: August 2004
Last Updated: May 2013

Course Handbook from the program Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2009, held October, 2009.

Published: May 2010
Last Updated: May 2013

Recorded on: Feb. 27, 2012

IRA: Good afternoon. We are going to begin our late afternoon session with really two changes to the program. For the first time we're adding a session on Licensing Rights of Publicity, which has developed, for better of for worse. As celebrities pass on, more celebrities look to monetize their own identities has grown into a singularly large industry in and of itself, whether you're talking about Sinatra, you're talking about Elvis, or you're talking ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2012

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thanks very much, Tamara. It's good to be here. This morning, we're going to be talking briefly about an overview of entertainment law issues that are common across all aspects of the entertainment industry and then have a more in-depth discussion of issues involving television and video production, financing, and distribution, as well as user-generated content. I would like to introduce my co-speaker for this morning. Lisa Williams-Fauntroy ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2012

HOWARD SIEGEL: Good afternoon. Welcome to this afternoon's session on video games and computer entertainment. A quick reminder-- I assume Ken or someone mentioned it to you this morning-- that after this program, which will run from 1:45, there will be a break at 3:30, we will reconvene sharply at 3:45, and that runs then until 5:00. At 5 o'clock, from 5:00 to 6:00 is the very well known-- and we consider it a huge draw here at PLI-- the CSAC cocktail ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2012

OK, welcome back everybody. Hope you enjoyed the cocktail reception. And we are going to resume the program with a presentation about Building an Entertainment Law Practice, followed by an hour of Ethics. I just want to remind you one more time that you need to press Sign Out on your pads before you leave. And enter the badge number to make sure that you get your CLE credit for being here today. And also, just another reminder to please complete ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2012

SPEAKER1: Thank you very much Rosemary and Kirk. And now the hour we've all been waiting for; ethics. I'd like to welcome Professor Bruce Green. Bruce Green is the Lewis Stein professor at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Lewis Stein center for law and ethics. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of legal ethics in criminal law, and is involved in various Bar Association activities, including many in these fields. Currently, he is ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2012

TAMARA KIWI: Welcome back, everybody. I hope you got to enjoy some of the nice weather outside. I would like to take a moment to introduce you to the co-chair of our program, as well as one of this afternoon's presenters, Howard Siegel. Howard is a senior partner in Pryor Cashman's entertainment group. He has more than 35 years of experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business with a particular emphasis on the music ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2012

KENNETH KAUFMAN: I'd like to welcome you to our session on sound recordings this morning, and particularly pleased to welcome our panelists, Julie Swidler and Nick Ferrara. Julie is executive vice president, business affairs and general counsel of Sony Music Entertainment here in New York. In this role Julie oversees both legal and business affairs for the company globally. As such, she provides guidance for Sony Music's labels and operating units ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: We're going to be reconvening, if you would be kind enough to take your seats. I'm very pleased to introduce our next panel on sports law, the right of publicity in a sports context, and specifically, the use of athletes' images. And this follows up on the discussion we had on the right of publicity at the session here on Monday. Our session is going to be moderated by K. J. Green. K. J. Is a graduate of Yale Law School and a ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thanks very much, Tamara. It's very nice to see all of you here with us this morning. And also we welcome those of you who are joining on the web. It's my pleasure to introduce our panel this morning on book publishing. It's a particularly exciting time in the book publishing industry, particularly with the transformation of business models. And a lot of interesting new legal issues from the electronic book revolution that our ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

TAMARA KIWI: Now it is my pleasure to introduce you to this afternoon's speakers. To my immediate right is Joe Dapello who is the founding partner of Schreck, Rose, Dapello, and Adams a boutique entertainment law firm, that is based in New York City, that is dedicated to serving the creative community throughout the world. The firm represents a variety of clients in all areas of the entertainment business including film, television, theater, and ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

MARC ROTH: OK. Is that good? All right. I want to thank everyone for returning to the room for the second session of our program. I'm very excited about the next program. It's actually one of the topics that gave rise to the agenda for this year's program, 2012 Information Technology, having to do with contracting issues for technology in the modern era. There's a lot of information that needs to be considered when contacting for these types of technologies. ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

SPEAKER 1: --a lot more knowledge. Let me now introduce our first two speakers, who will be talking about the transformational force of ebooks on the publishing industry. The first of the two speakers is Suzanne Bell, who is a partner at the Wilson Sonsini firm here in the Valley, who is involved with technology transactional matters. She does a wide variety of technology and IP transactions involving complex strategic alliances, outsourcing for ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

MARC S. ROTH: We'd like to thank everyone for coming back in the room. If anyone is out in the lobby and hallway please make your way back inside to the session. We'd like to get started and attempt to try to stay on track for timing here. I was introduced earlier. I'm Marc Roth I'm with Manatt Phelps and Phillips. I also want to introduce two of my colleagues and co-panelists for our Social Media Issues in Technology. Sitting to my immediate right ...

From the program: Representing the Games Industry Client 2012

Released on: Oct. 31, 2012

The videogame industry has emerged as a leader in home entertainment, rivaling recorded music, television and motion pictures for the consumer entertainment mindshare.  Intellectual property, including videogames, has become one of America’s leading exports in the 21st Century.  The emergence of the Internet, Facebook and other social platforms and destinations, Apple iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and other digital delivery vehicles, ...

From the program: Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2012

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2012 recorded December, 2012 in San Francisco. Lecture Topics  [00:59:25] Rights of Publicity and Entertainment Licensing  [00:59:25] Rights of publicity Celebrity licensing Television and movie licensing Special issues for user-generated content and the Internet The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from ...

Recorded on: Oct. 18, 2012

DAN OFFNER: Here you go. JIM CHARNE: OK. Thank you. I'd like to introduce the rest of the panel. You heard from Dan. Amy, sitting right next to Dan, has recently joined NBCUniversal as Director of Business and Legal Affairs, Television Distribution. Previously, she was an attorney at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. There, her practice primarily focused on transactional work related to all facets ...

Recorded on: Oct. 18, 2012

JAMES CHARNE: Welcome back to our second panel on the regulatory overlay. We have another outstanding panel here. I'd like to introduce our speakers. To my immediate right is Jamie Cook. Jamie's been an attorney and executive in the interactive entertainment and personal computer industries for more than 30 years. I've known Jamie since at least 1988 and can attest that he's a wonderful lawyer. He's currently General Counsel and Executive Vice ...

Recorded on: Oct. 18, 2012

DANIEL OFFNER: Welcome to our two late afternoon sessions. Thank you all for attending, those of you who are physically attending, and those of you are attending virtually over the Web. And I'm impressed that you've made it into the afternoon session. We hope that we can provide some excitement, and fun, and diversity of prospective, and a little bit of lawyer business, reality, and clashing, as we kind of what wend our way through these two topics ...

From the program: Think Like a Lawyer, Talk Like a Geek 2012: Get Fluent in Technology

Recorded on: Nov. 12, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Think Like a Lawyer, Talk Like a Geek 2012: Get Fluent in Technology recorded November, 2012 in New York. Lecture Topics  [00:57:32] New Delivery Methods for Digital Content: Books, Music and Video  [00:57:32] What are the tools used for transmitting digital content? Why does the downloading of a full length movie take only minutes? How is digital transmission disrupting existing business ...

Recorded on: Nov. 12, 2012

PETER BROWN: Well let's all settle in. Are we live? Yep. OK. Very good. The agenda was for me to speak with one of our successful entrepreneurs who has actually worked and lived in the digital data environment. By the way, the screen up here with the speaker's screen does not have the PowerPoint. If someone could change it. Thank you. I need that. The clicker, where's the clicker? Where'd the clicker go? LORI E. LESSER: Ah, good question. Is it ...

From the program: Communications Law in the Digital Age 2012

Released on: Nov. 30, 2012

The world of communications and media law is robust with change, and this program, long recognized as the most comprehensive in its field, will highlight the hottest issues and case law in media, digital communications, intellectual property and privacy law. Reflecting an increased focus on the legal ramifications of an increasingly digital media environment, the program features a remarkable faculty comprising the country’s leading practitioners ...

Published: November 2012