BESLS x IPLA Third Annual Entertainment Law Symposium (CLE Pending)

Please join the Brooklyn Entertainment & Sports Law Society (BESLS) and Intellectual Property Law Association (IPLA) on Friday, February 28th, for our Third Annual Entertainment Law Symposium. The Symposium theme is “The Show Must Go On: Legal Challenges in Live Performance,” and will feature three panels and a keynote conversation. There will be a lunch break after the first two panels. More information below.

Theme: The Show Must Go On: Legal Challenges in Live Performance

Panels Include: Contracts Take Center Stage: Protecting Artists' Rights in Live Entertainment, Beyond the Fine Print: Navigating Ticketing Regulations and Consumer Protection in Entertainment, and From the Page to the Stage: The Legal Landscape of Transmedia Adaptations.

Featured Keynote Discussion: Dana Foote of Sir Chloe (moderated by Janine Small, Esq.)

Schedule:

Contracts Take Center Stage: Protecting Artists' Rights in Live Entertainment

• Kevin Bhatia (Business Affairs Associate at United Talent Agency)
• Shana Fried (Founder at The Fried Firm)
• Moderator: Vernon Brown (President at V Brown & Co. and Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School)

Beyond the Fine Print: Navigating Ticketing Regulations and Consumer Protection in Entertainment

• Moderator: Seán O'Connor (Inaugural Grubman Chair of Media and Entertainment at Brooklyn Law School)

Lunch will be served following the second panel

From the Page to the Stage: The Legal Landscape of Transmedia Adaptations

• Matt Fulton (Director of Business Affairs at Writers House)
• Joshua M. Greenberg (Counsel at Pryor Cashman)
• Carol Kaplan (Co-Chair of Theater & Live Entertainment at Loeb & Loeb)
• Melissa Georges (Partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz)
• Moderator: Mark Merriman (Counsel at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz)

Keynote Conversation: Pulling Back the Curtain: Behind the Life Cycle of Touring (featuring Dana Foote of Sir Chloe)

• Moderator: Janine Small, Esq. (Founder at Janine Small, PLLC and Counsel at Phillips, Erlewine, Given & Carlin, LLP)

Additional panelists to be announced.

Host or Publisher Brooklyn Law School