Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section 2025 Annual Meeting
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Section Committee Meetings
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | New York Hilton Midtown | Murray Hill East | Second Floor
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CLE Program
1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Virtual Option
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4.5 MCLE Credits
4.0 Areas of Professional Practice | 0.5 Ethics and Professionalism This program is transitional and is suitable for all attorneys
including those newly admitted. |
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Agenda
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| 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | EASL Committee Meetings at New York Hilton Midtown |
| Open, no registration required. | |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | EASL Annual Meeting |
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Welcome and Introduction Speaker: Sarah Robertson, Section Chair |
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| 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.
1.5 Credits in Areas of Professional Practice |
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| Speakers: 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: |
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| 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.
1.0 Credits in Areas of Professional Practice, 0.5 Credit in Ethics and Professionalism |
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| Speakers: 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: |
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| 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, and AI developers in book publishing, journalism, visual arts including photography, and other industries. We will discuss issues around licensing training data to large language models (LLMs) and AI output ownership in the AI era. How should licensing models adapt to cover AI training and deployment? What strategies are emerging for negotiating AI rights in content licenses and agreements involving authors, artists and other creators? The discussion will examine developing AI model guardrails and proposed frameworks for compensating rightsholders.
1.5 Credits in Areas of Professional Practice |
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| Speakers: Matthew Moore, General Counsel, Created by Humans | New York, NY Regan Smith, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, News/Media Alliance | Arlington, VA Moderator: |
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| Section Chair: | Sarah Robertson, Esq., Dorsey & Whitney LLP | New York, NY |
| Program Chairs: | Anne S. Atkinson, Esq., EASL Diversity Committee Co-Chair Pryor Cashman LLP | New York, NY |
| Judith B. Bass, Esq., EASL 1st Vice-Chair, EASL Literary Works and Related Rights Committee Chair Law Offices of Judith B. Bass | New York, NY Flore Brunetti, Esq. Louise Carron, Esq., EASL Assistant Secretary Robert L. Seigel, Esq., EASL Motion Pictures Committee Co-Chair Innes Smolansky, EASL Assistant Treasurer Barry A. Werbin, Esq., Past EASL Chair Herrick, Feinstein LLP | New York, NY |
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Thank you to our Bronze Sponsor!
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- January 16, 2025
- 1:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
- 4.0
- 0.5
- 4.5
- Virtual Participation
- Webinar
- EASLAM25
- Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section
- Committee on Continuing Legal Education
