Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section MCLE Program | AM2025

Regulatory Reckoning: Social Media and the Law:

This panel examines 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.

Fact or Fiction: Legal Issues in Docudramas:

This panel explores 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 also considers 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. 

License to Learn: Trends in Artificial Intelligence and IP Licensing:

This panel tackles 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. They also 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.

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

Melissa Georges Chair, Content Review & Clearance Group, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz | New York, NY Page 4 of 5 Prof. 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

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