Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m

EASL Committee Meetings

Open, no registration required.
Fine Arts Committee; Digital Entertainment, Television and Radio Committee + Motion Pictures Committee; Music Committee/MBLC Committee

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

EASL Executive Committee Meeting and Luncheon

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

EASL Annual Meeting

Welcome and Introduction
Special thanks to our Bronze Sponsor: Herrick

Speaker

Sarah Robertson, Section Chair | Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP | New York, NY

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Regulatory Reckoning: Social Media and the Law

This panel will examine the evolving framework of social media regulation in the United States. As platforms face unprecedented scrutiny, speakers will explore crucial developments including proposed reforms to the Communications Decency Act Section 230's qualified liability shield, state-level content moderation and restricted age-related access legislation laws, and new transparency requirements, as well as efforts to restrict TikTok, broader national security concerns around social media platforms, and how proposed reforms impact free speech.

Speaker

Lance Koonce | Partner, Klaris Law | New York, NY

Gene J. Koprowski | Journalist

Ramya Krishnan | Senior Staff Attorney, Knight First Amendment Institute | New York, NY

Moderator

Paul Harold | Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Washington, DC

1.5 Credits in Areas of Professional Practice

2:30 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.

Break

2:40 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

Fact or Fiction: Legal Issues in Docudramas

This panel will explore the complex legal landscape of prepublication review and clearance challenges for docudramas, where truth meets dramatic license. Speakers will review litigation based on programs such as When They See Us (about the Central Park Five) and Baby Reindeer and dissect key challenges in rights clearance, defamation risks, copyright fair use, and life rights acquisition for dramatic adaptations of true stories, as well as evolving standards for depicting living persons, the intersection of artistic freedom with privacy rights, and strategies for minimizing legal exposure while maintaining creative vision. The panel will also consider the ethical challenges for attorneys reviewing program scripts and character portrayals that vary from actual transcripts, testimony, witness statements and articles regarding a related legal action or trial.

Speaker

Melissa Georges | Chair, Content Review & Clearance Group, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz | New York, NY

Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin | Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Filmmakers Legal Clinic, Cardozo School of Law | New York, NY

Jean-Paul Jassy | Partner, Jassy Vick Carolan LLP | Los Angeles, CA

Moderator

Robert L. Seigel, Esq. | EASL Motion Pictures Committee Co-Chair Law Office of Robert L. Seigel | New York, NY

1.0 Credits in Areas of Professional Practice, 0.5 Credit in Ethics and Professionalism

3:55 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.

Break

4:05 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.

License to Learn: Trends in Artificial Intelligence and IP Licensing

This panel will tackle the new licensing and usage challenges facing content owners, platforms, marketing companies and AI developers, in newspaper and book publishing, photography, music, film, and other industries. We will discuss issues concerning questions around licensing training data to large language models (LLMs), AI output ownership, and fair use in the AI era. How should licensing models adapt to cover AI training and deployment? What strategies are emerging for negotiating AI rights in author and talent agreements, and content licenses and marketing agency agreements? The discussion will examine recent litigation including cases against major AI companies, evolving industry standards for AI model training, and proposed frameworks for compensating rightsholders.

Speaker

William Clark | Assistant General Counsel-Licensing, Shutterstock, Inc. | New York, NY

Matthew Moore | General Counsel, Created by Humans | New York, NY

Regan Smith | Senior Vice President & General Counsel, News/Media Alliance | Arlington, VA

Moderator

Bill Rosenblatt | President, GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies; Adjunct Professor, New York University | New York, NY

1.5 Credits in Areas of Professional Practice

5:20 p.m. – 5:25 p.m.

Final Announcements

5:25 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Networking Reception

Dorsey & Whitney LLP - 51 West 52nd Street