FW: "Battling for Ownership of the Arts: Who Controls Music, Film, Publishing, and Visual Communications?"

["Jeffrey R. Galin" <jgalin@xxxxxxx>]

Battling for Ownership of the Arts:

Who Controls Music, Film, Publishing, and Visual Communication?



April 16th-18th







First Intellectual Properties (IP) Conference

Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton Marriott at Boca Center

Hosted by the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters



We have brought together industry specialists, scholars, and IP attorneys in
four fields of commercial arts to explore cross-industry issues and
challenges.  We are featuring speakers from the RIAA, AFTRA, and
Cinematheque.  Our action agenda will produce recommendations for industry,
legal, political, and academic constituencies.  If you would like to play a
role in effecting change in the handling of intellectual property in Arts
and Letters and across the commercial arts, you should attend this
conference.



For registration information and detailed schedule visit our website at
http://www.fau.edu/ipconference.



Speaker Highlights:

Ann Chaitovitz, National Director of Sound Recordings for the American
<http://www.aftra.com>  Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
in Washington DC

Rosemary Coombe, Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and
Cultural Studies at York University <http://www.yorku.ca/rcoombe>  in
Toronto

Peter Dekom, Co-Chairman, American <http://www.americancinematheque.com/>
Cinematheque and former partner of Bloom, Dekom, Hergott and Cook law firm
in Los Angles

 <javascript:openWindow('people/seltzer.htm','myNewWindow',400,400)> Wendy
Seltzer, Staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
<http://www.eff.org>  and founder of the Chilling Effects Project
<http://www.chillingeffects.org>



We encourage you to distribute this information to anyone that you think may
be interested, including forwarding this message to professional listservs.



For questions about the conference, you may contact Jeffrey R. Galin at
jgalin@xxxxxxx or Sue Carlson at scarls11@xxxxxxx, and for registration
concerns write to Anne Carlson at acarlson@xxxxxxxx

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