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From the program: Ethics in Social Media 2013

Released on: Apr. 1, 2013

Ethics permeates all areas of today's legal practice.  With the proliferation of social media, what types of personal information are companies permitted to access without the consent of their employees or applicants?  How is privacy and security addressed?  The New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers' Association have all issued ethics opinions on "pretexting" and "social engineering" ...

From the program: Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013 - Book Publishing; Current Developments in Entertainment and Sports Litigation; Film

Released on: Mar. 20, 2013

This session will provide an overview of book publishing agreements and current developments in the publishing industry (including e-books), followed by trends and hot topics in entertainment, sports and Internet litigation. The session will also provide a basic understanding of motion picture terms and concepts, plus advanced film issues involving financing, production and distribution. Lecture Topics [Total time 06:11:40] Segments ...

From the program: Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013 - Sound Recordings; Music Publishing

Released on: Mar. 19, 2013

This session is geared toward a basic understanding of an artist-record company agreement with a mock negotiation as the format, and will address current issues and trends in the record industry, including digital distribution of sound recordings. The session will also provide a basic understanding of music publishing terms and concepts and will include a mock negotiation of an exclusive songwriter agreement. Lecture Topics [Total time ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Our next panel is evidence for social media. So this is a little bit of a different angle than we were talking about with the first panelists. And one of the panelists will be my partner, Francesca Morris. Francesca is a partner at Holland & Knight. Her practices include litigation and dispute resolution, international litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors rights. She advises and represents foreign and ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: All right. Our first panel today is going to be talking about ethics in social media, obviously. And we're going to have, really, a panel discussion, which I think will be quite interesting. At least in my mind view, it's been a pretty good format. So I wanted to introduce our three panelists. All the way to your left, to my right, one of our panelists is Sofia Rahman. She's the global social media attorney for Citi's Consumer Businesses. ...

From the program: Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013 - Overview of Entertainment Law Issues; Television, Video & User-Generated Content; Videogames & Computer Entertainment; Building an Entertainment Law Practice; Ethics

Released on: Mar. 18, 2013

This session will address high-level issues in entertainment industry transactions and will cover legal and business issues and emerging trends in the television and video industries, including recent developments involving online video and user-generated content. It will sort out the parties to game development deals and their respective interests, take a look at key negotiating issues from both sides of the table, and conclude with a mock ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

TAMARA C. KIWI: OK. Welcome back, everybody. I hope that you had a good lunch. And before we get started with the afternoon panel, I'd like to introduce the other co-chair of today's program, Howard Siegel. Howard is a senior partner 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 industry-- during which time ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2013

Taken from the Web Program IP Issues in Business Transactions 2013 Recorded March, 2013 in San Francisco IP Transactions Concerning Data, Social Media and Online Assets [00:59:35] Data: What is it legally? Who owns it? How can it be transferred? What special risks does it pose? E-Activities - what business activities call for new entries on the due diligence checklist (e.g., social media, e-contracting, e-communicating)? What ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LOTHAR DETERMANN: So thanks so much for the previous panel. We actually do not have a break, so everybody who is stepping out to get more caffeine, it is not necessary because we have some expert presenters here that will keep you at your toes. Denise Vieira is commercial council at Zynga. She was previously with other hot companies, with VMware. And also taught as an [INAUDIBLE] professor at USF law school, and she has disclosed that she was my student. DENISE ...

From the program: Social Media 2013: Addressing Corporate Risks

Released on: Feb. 20, 2013

Did you know that Facebook now has one billion active users? (By contrast, the entire population of the United States is 310 million people.) Or that Facebook accounts for over ten percent of all U.S. web traffic? And that over 250 million photographs are posted to Facebook each day? Or that Twitter users are expected to send over 91 billion tweets during 2012? And that over four billion videos are viewed per day on YouTube? Facebook, Twitter, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Trade Secrets 2013: What Every IP Attorney Should Know Recorded February, 2013 in San Francisco Best Practices at Home and Abroad Panel [01:02:31] Tips for licensing trade secrets Disclosing trade secrets to vendors and contractors Managing the risks of cloud computing Foreign protection: how to protect trade secrets abroad Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements: where are the landmines?  ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back everyone from the break. This is our final session of the day. Last but certainly not least, we've saved some of the best for the last. I'll be very brief, and we'll just get rolling. But I'm going to introduce Sharon Sandeen, professor Sandeen again. She was with us very early this morning and gave us the trade secret crash course. And she's going to talk with a wonderful panel about best practices at home and abroad regarding ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

BRIAN W. BROKATE: It's my pleasure to introduce this next panel on Blatant Infringement. When you see them, what do you do with them? By now, everybody knows Katie McCarthy, one of the two prominent McCarthys in the trademark field. I understand there's another one who's Professor Tom. Is that right, Siegrun? But certainly Katie McCarthy has really made a tremendous name for herself in this area and in terms of IP enforcement as well. To Katie's ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

Taken from the Web Program IP Enforcement and Litigation 2013: Criminal and Civil Update Recorded February, 2013 in New York Practical Advice on Stopping Blatant Infringements [00:59:39] Trademark take-down do's and don'ts, including idiosyncrasies of various social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon stores, Pinterest, etc. How best to attack Internet scams, phishing and fraudulent websites Managing time, budget ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

KATHLEEN E. MCCARTHY: Our next presentation is an update on trademark enforcement, and we will provide an update on three different topics-- dilution, the new gTLD program, and anti-counterfeiting. And we're lucky to have on our panel three very qualified speakers to address these topics. I'm going to introduce everybody now at the beginning so we can go smoothly from presentation to presentation. The first presentation is by Siegrun Kane, who is ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

KATHLEEN E. MCCARTHY: Welcome back, everyone. We're starting off the afternoon with copyright enforcement update where we're going to get two experts here talking about fair use, gray goods, and computer software protection issues in the copyright area. The first speaker is Dale Cendali who's a partner at Kirkland and who has argued before the supreme court not once, but twice, won the Harry Potter Lexicon case in a trial that was hotly followed and ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN F. DELANEY: Every year, I kind of provide an overview of some of the topics that we're not going to cover in depth later in the conference, and also touch on some of the hot issues and new cases that have come out since we last got together. And also I want to start by just highlighting the explosive growth of social media. So on slide two is a quick roadmap of what I'll be covering over the next hour. As mentioned, I want to step back from ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, we're back. A couple of housekeeping matters. As I mentioned at the beginning, we look forward to your feedback. Let us know what you like. Let us know about other topics that we can cover next year. We hope to have you back next year. So if you have thoughts about other issues you're seeing in your own practice that we haven't been able to touch upon in a day long conference, we'd love to hear about it. So please fill out the evaluation ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: I think we're back. Next topic up is drafting and updating social media policies and guidelines. And one thing I will say. So much has happened in this area of the law since we last met a year ago that I can say with quite some confidence that, if your company hasn't updated its social media policy or guidelines in the past year, they're probably out of date, just because so much has happened in this area. And we're very fortunate to ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: So next up, we have Andrew Serwin, who is the executive director and CEO of the Lares Institute and the founding chair of Foley & Lardner privacy practice. He is an internationally-recognized thought leader regarding information and its role in the global economy. And he's handled some of the leading matters before the federal trade commission, in information security, COPPA-- which we just heard a little bit about-- social media, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, I'm very pleased to introduce Lisa Oratz, who's an attorney at Perkins Cole, where she focuses on technology, intellectual property, entertainment, and social media law. She counsels companies on internet and new media issues, including content liability, privacy, intellectual property rights, online agreements, which we just talked about, social media policies, which we'll hear more about later today, licensing, distribution, marketing, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: We're back. I hope everyone had a nice lunch break. As I mentioned before the break, we're going to be talking about mobile apps and related legal issues. And we're fortunate to have two speakers on this topic. They're going to speak not as a group but separately. But I'll introduce them both now. Speaking first will be to my farthest right Cynthia Tune, who is senior counsel at Pillsbury's San Francisco office, where she leads the ...

Released on: Feb. 6, 2013

Taken from the briefing Art of the Deal 2.0 - Web 2.0 Issues in Technology Acquisitions recorded January, 2013. Web 2.0 has introduced a new breed of assets to the 21st century.  M&A lawyers who once sold plant and equipment, then trademarks, copyrights, and patents, now need to be expert in the acquisition of these elusive assets.  Yet practice in this area has yet to adapt to Friends, Channels, and App Ratings.  This briefing ...

Recorded on: Feb. 6, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, "Art of the Deal, Web 2.0 Issues in Technology Acquisitions." Before I begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook ...

From the program: Open Source and Free Software 2012: Benefits, Risks and Challenges

Released on: Dec. 19, 2012

Continuous changes in the legal and technical landscape make it critical for IP, technology and business lawyers to keep abreast of the legal and technical issues presented by the open source paradigm. “Open source” software, which is freely available in the form of operating systems, applications, utility code and programming tools, presents an attractive option. However, use of such software can also expose a company to unexpected and ...