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Re: Legal Live
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Mar 1, 2005 12:22 PM
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Thank you to our guests logging on to talk about legal issues relating to the arts. Here is some background information on each of our panelists.
Glenn Otis Brown has been Executive Director of Creative Commons since Summer 2002. Before that, he served as Assistant Director. Glenn is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig. Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1996, summa) and Harvard Law School (JD, 2000, magna). At Harvard, Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized Signal or Noise?, a digital music conference and concert, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Jon M.Garon, Dean of Hamline University School of Law, is a nationally recognized instructor and authority on intellectual property, particularly copyright, entertainment and media law. He has written "THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER'S LAW & BUSINESS GUIDE TO FINANCING, SHOOTING, AND DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT AND DIGITAL FILMS" (2002) and "ENTERTAINMENT LAW & PRACTICE" (2004) and co-authored "THEATER LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS" (2004).
Walter G. Lehmann is the managing partner of LEHMANN STROBEL PLC. Walt practices in the areas of art and entertainment, intellectual and real property law, with a focus on helping individuals, businesses and organizations manage their real and intellectual property assets. His clients include independent film, television, radio and multimedia producers, directors, screenwriters, musicians, production companies, recording studios, photographers, visual artists, museums, galleries, and other art-related non-profit organizations.
Mary Madden is a research specialist at the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research initiative funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts that studies the social impact of the internet on American’s lives. She has co-authored several reports about music and the internet, and is the Project’s lead researcher on an artist-focused study that examines artists’ use of the internet and their attitudes towards copyright issues online.
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