Date:  April 9, 2003
Time:  6:00 p.m
Place:  14 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10007
Sponsors:  EMIPS/ NYCLA  Media & Entertainment Law Committee/NYCLA Intellectual Property Law Committee

Program Chair: Raymond J. Dowd - Dowd & Marotta LLC

Who Should Attend: Attorneys with some background in copyright practice seeking to learn the ins and outs of copyright litigation.

Joseph V. De Marco, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York; Coordinator, Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Group; Richard A. Kurnit, Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C.; Hon. Loretta A. Preska, Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York

Designed for attorneys with some copyright experience who wish to learn how a copyright litigation works and its financial and legal consequences, this program will provide you with a soup-to-nuts analysis of a copyright litigation, with panelists highlighting the difference between civil and criminal procedures. Areas to be covered include: investigation of copyright claims and title; gathering evidence; commencing an action; procedural considerations; trials; hearings on damages; and settlement strategies.

For more information please email paul@dowdmarottalaw.com

Date: September 19, 2002
Time:  6:30 PM
Place: 14 Vesey Street (between Broadway and Church)
Sponsor:  NYCLA Media & Entertainment Law Committee / EMIPS

Program Chair: Raymond J. Dowd - Dowd & Marotta LLC

Speaker: Arthur Klebanoff, Co-Founder and CEO of RosettaBooks, and owner of Scott Meredith Literary Agency.

Arthur Klebanoff has handled books with more than $1billion in retail sales since forming his own literary agency in 1983. He owns the fifty-year old Scott Meredith Literary Agency, with more than 1,500 active backlist titles. Mr. Klebanoff has headed the successful 2,000 title rights acquisition program of the Easton Press, the leading leather-bound publisher. He currently represents such bestselling authors as Bill Bradley and Sheila Lukins, backlists for estates including Roger Tory Peterson, the ornithologist, the astrologer, Linda Goodman and institutions including Mayo Clinic and Bloomberg L.P. Mr. Klebanoff is a co-founder with Christopher Johnson of Customized Publishing.com which has produced the Bloomberg Diary and Information Center 2000, a line of fourteen books for Oshkosh B'Gosh, and a magazine for Nikon. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. His book, The Agent, was published in 2002.

For more information please email john@dowdmarottalaw.com

Date:  Wednesday July 24^th
Time:  6:00 Sign In / 6:30 Program
Place:  TechSpace, 41 E. 11th Street, 11th Floor (at University)
Sponsor:  New York New Media Association

Program Chair: Raymond J. Dowd- Dowd & Marotta LLC

Internet advertising raises unique legal issues not found in traditional media. This program will introduce you to the critical issues that every Internet advertiser must know: truth-in-advertising laws, rules on disclosures, common copyright, trademark, and right of publicity problems in advertising, and the state of the law on linking, framing, pop-ups, and other Internet advertising technologies.

Jeffrey A. Greenbaum is a partner at the law firm of Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC, located in New York City, where he practices advertising, marketing, and intellectual property law. Mr. Greenbaum represents advertisers, advertising agencies, and commercial production companies, as well as directors, producers, and others working in the advertising industry. He counsels clients on a wide variety of advertising, marketing, and intellectual property matters, including agency/client contracts, production contracts, copy and rights clearance, and network clearance. He also regularly represents advertisers in connection with advertising challenges brought by competitors, regulators, and consumers. Mr. Greenbaum is the Chair of the Committee on Consumer Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He also teaches advertising and intellectual property law at Parsons School of Design and is a frequent speaker on advertising and intellectual property issues.

Edward H. Rosenthal

Edward H. Rosenthal also is a partner at Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC. Mr. Rosenthal heads the firm’s litigation department, focusing on intellectual property and media litigation, including copyright, trademark, false advertising, right of publicity, defamation, internet, and publishing matters. Mr. Rosenthal also counsels clients on a wide variety of intellectual property matters, including trademark registration and prosecution, domain name protection and infringement, and rights and clearance issues for advertising agencies, publishers, motion picture companies, and others. Mr. Rosenthal has served as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, teaching legal writing and drafting of intellectual property documents. He also has served on the Trademark and Unfair Competition Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Copyright Society of the USA.

FREE to NYNMA members * $15 non-members pre-registered * $20 at the door

To Register Please visit  www.nynma.org

Date:  July 18, 2002 
Time:  6:30 p.m
Place:  Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz
488 Madison Ave (between 51 & 52)
Sponsor:  NYCLA  Media & Entertainment Law Committee/EMIPS

Program Chair: Raymond J. Dowd - Dowd & Marotta LLC

Have a client who wants to market music film or a video game with violence? This program will give you the legal and regulatory background you’ll need to handle the problem.

Barbara Anthony, Regional Director , Federal Trade Commission

 which is located in lower Manhattan. Under Ms. Anthony’s leadership, the Northeast Regional Office has become one of the most active FTC regional offices in the country – with consumer protection and antitrust cases and public education and outreach efforts across New England, New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In particular, Ms. Anthony’s office has been actively engaged in the FTC’s privacy agenda, including financial privacy and Internet privacy issues for consumers and children. Most recently, her office has been active in the FTC’s efforts to fight bio-terror scams in the wake of September 11^th, has helped to coordinate antifraud efforts with other New York agencies and organizations, and has opened its auditorium doors in lower Manhattan to help sponsor informational recovery forums for the lower Manhattan small business community. Ms Anthony also teaches Consumer Protection law at Suffolk Law School in Boston and is a frequent commentator on consumer protection issues in the New England and New York media markets.

Jeffrey A. Greenbaum, Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz

Jeffrey A.Greenbaum practices advertising, marketing, and intellectual property law. Mr. Greenbaum represents advertisers, advertising agencies, and commercial production companies, as well as directors, producers, and others working in the advertising industry. He regularly represents advertisers in advertising challenges brought by competitors, regulators, and consumers. Mr. Greenbaum is the Chair of the Committee on Consumer Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He also teaches advertising and intellectual property law at Parsons School of Design and is a frequent speaker on advertising and intellectual property issues.

For more information please email john@dowdmarottalaw.com