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Intellectual Property

Media Entertainment & Sports

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

SPEAKER 1: In the next hour and a half we have two very exciting presentations. The first is on current developments in entertainment and sports litigation. And the second is on current developments-- first focusing on the sports side, and the second will focus on the entertainment and internet side. And for our presentation on sports law, which will focus on the use of athletes' images and the right of publicity, we have two very distinguished speakers. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

TAMARA C. KIWI: Welcome back everybody. Hope you had a good lunch. We are into the final session of the day. And it's my pleasure to introduce you to the co-chair of our program, Howard Siegel, to my immediate right. Howard is a senior partner in Pryor Cashman's Entertainment Group. He has more than 40 years of experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business, with a particular emphasis on the music industry, during ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thanks very much, Tamara. I just wanted to get a sense of those of you in the audience, how many of you are lawyers this morning? OK. And how many of you devote a significant amount of your practice to entertainment law? And how about book publishing? OK, so there are a number of you. It's good to see so many of you here this morning. This morning, initially, we'll be talking about book publishing, which is an area of major current ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

KEN: Thanks very much, Tamara. This morning we're going to have a panel on the sound recordings. And I'd like to introduce our two panelists this morning. To my immediate right is Julie Swidler, who is Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel of the Sony Music Entertainment here in New York. Julie has worked in the music industry for over 25 years, and has worked for both labels, corporate departments, and music publishing ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

TAMARA C. KIWI: OK. Welcome back, everybody. I hope you had a good lunch. It is my pleasure now to introduce you to the co-chair of our program, Howard Siegel. Howard is a senior partner in Pryor Cashman's Entertainment Group. He has more than 40 years of experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business, with a particular emphasis on the music industry, during which time he has served as counsel to many of the industry's ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thank you, very much, Tamara. It's nice to see so many of you here. What I'd like to do initially is introduce my co-panelists this morning. We're going to be talking about to television and video production, financing, distribution, user generated content, and new developments in the industry, as well as an overview of common issues in the entertainment law area. To my immediate right is Vernon Chu, who is the General Counsel ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

HOWARD SIEGEL: OK, so we segue right into the next and final segment of our program, on this first of the three-day PLI seminar, and that is Jack Sahl, who will speak to us about ethics. I said about Rosemary and Kirk, and with absolute truth, that they are friends of mine personally, and friends of PLI. And certainly, that is true of Jack, who's standing here behind me on my left. He is a faculty director of the Miller-Becker Center for Professional ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

HOWARD SIEGEL: Good evening and welcome back. I want to introduce to you, two good friends of mine, and good friends of PLI. Rosemary Carroll, on my immediate right, graduated from Duke University, received her law degree from Stanford. She's worked in the field of entertainment since her graduation from law school. And first, she was an associate of Phillips Nizer, a firm familiar to most of you, I assume. And then she was counsel to TriStar Pictures ...

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: 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: 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: 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: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. At this point we're going to have a presentation on Rights of Publicity Licensing, and I'm pleased to introduce Kristina Dinerman Cooper and Brian Thompson as our panelists. Kristina's Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Yahoo, where she heads Legal Services for Media and Commerce, overseeing the legal work for Yahoo's consumer facing properties such as news, finance, sports, entertainment, shopping, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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

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 ...

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: 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: 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. 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 ...