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Thu May 22 - 6:30pm-7:30pm Artful Law: the Law of Art at Artomatic 2008 Come learn about some of the issues, and ask experienced practitioners your questions The panel consists of:
co-sponsored by the Washington Area Lawyers for the Art Nancy Prager is an intellectual property and corporate attorney to clients in a diverse array of industries, from music to Internet services. She advises clients on matters ranging from corporate formation and organization to intellectual property licensing. Additionally, she addresses emerging issues for clients from the use of music on the Internet to domestic and international privacy regulations. Nancy is the author of the blog Reasonable Balance, www.nancyprager.wordpress.com, as well as a number of articles for publications including news.com. She often speaks on music and technology issues in forums ranging from technology incubators to SXSW. She received her law degree from Wake Forest University and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a political science major. Nancy has created a number of award winning community service programs, including a legal services program for victims of domestic violence.She can be reached at nprager@pragerlaw.us. Janet Fries is a partner at Drinker Biddle and leader of the copyright practice group. She is also the pro bono project coordinator for the firm’s DC office.Janet is a member of the board of directors of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts and is an active member of the District of Columbia Bar’s Section for Arts, Entertainment, Media and Sports Law Section and chair’s the Arts and Cultural Law Committee.Janet has represented numerous authors, artists, collectors, estates, art organizations, musicians, producers and Internet companies in connection with issues involving contract negotiation and preparation, Web site review, copyright and trademark protection and enforcement and related matters.In addition to her legal practice, Janet is an experienced professional editorial and fine art photographer. Her work has been published and exhibited widely and has been acquired for the permanent collections of museums including the National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Janet earned a BA in Art History from Smith College, a Masters degree in fine art photography from San Francisco State University and a JD with honors from George Washington University. She can be reached at Janet.Fries@dbr.com Christine Haight Farley teaches courses in Intellectual Property Law, U.S. Trademark Law, International and Comparative Trademark Law, and Law and the Visual Arts. In addition, she serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at the Washington College of Law and as Co-Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. Before joining the law faculty at American, Professor Farley was an associate specializing in intellectual property litigation with Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman in New York. She received her B.A. from Binghamton University, her J.D. from SUNY Buffalo School of Law, and her LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. Professor Farley's scholarly work is in the areas of on intellectual property, international law and art law. Her current projects study the intersection of art and IP; and the unstable basis of rights in the development of trademark law. Professor Farley has been a visiting professor at the University of Puerto Rico, where she taught art law, and at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, where she taught international intellectual property law. In addition, she has lectured on intellectual property law in Australia, Canada, Columbia, Cuba, Jordan, Mongolia, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Scotland and Turkey. She can be reached at cfarley@wcl.american.edu |
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Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.