Welcome!
The New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts and
Sports Law Section welcomes Section members and visitors. EASL Section's
more than 1,700 members represent varied interests, including some of
the sexiest issues grabbing headlines being debated in Congress and
being heard by the courts. The EASL Section provides substantive case
law, forums for discussion and debate and information-sharing in the
EASL e-community. Section members receive the Entertainment, Arts and
Sports Law Journal and may access back issues on our Web site.
New: Archive of Committee Meetings
The Committees of the Entertainment Arts and Sports Law Section
include some of the most active committees in the New York State Bar
Association. Committee meetings are held throughout the year, with many
of the meetings being approved for MCLE credit. In order to increase our
members’ awareness of these valuable meetings, an archive
containing the descriptions of these meetings is now being provided. In
the future, the course materials distributed at these meetings will also
be provided as an exclusive benefit of Section membership. Please click
on the Committee Name below to access the meeting notices.
Alternative
Dispute Resolution
Fine
Arts
Pro Bono
Theatre
& Performing Arts
Editors: Kathleen Conkey, Elissa Hecker and Pamela
Jones
For as long as there have been printing presses, there have been
accusations of libel, invasion of privacy, intellectual property
infringements and a variety of other torts.
Now that much of the content reaching the public is
distributed over the Internet, television (including cable and
satellite), radio and film as well as in print, the field of
pre-publication review has become more complicated and more
important.
Counseling
Content Providers in the Digital Age provides an overview of the issues content reviewers face
repeatedly.
Sponsored by the EASL Section and Committee on Continuing Legal
Education, Counseling Content Providers in the Digital
Age was written and edited by experienced
media law attorneys from California
and New
York. This book is invaluable to anyone entering the field of
pre-publication review as well as anyone responsible for vetting the
content of their client’s or their firm’s Web
site.
Entertainment Litigation
This book is a thorough exposition of the basics that manages to
address in a simple, accessible way the pitaflls and complexities of the
entertainment and intellectual property fields. Written by experienced
attorneys, Entertainment Litigation is the manual for anyone practicing
in this fast-paced, ever-changing area of law.
Click
here to order a copy of this book.
Upcoming Programs
We encourage you to check out the EASL events page of
our website, as a wide variety of programs covering legal topics in the
entertainment field are sponsored by Committees of the Entertainment,
Arts & Law Section on a monthly basis, and many times CLE credit is
offered. You can also follow us on Twitter @NYSBAEASL to stay up
to date on news, events, programming, and publications.
EASL Recorded Programs
Please click on the following link for information on
how to obtain a copy of an Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section
program that was recorded and is now available for
purchase: http://www.nysba.org/RecordedPrograms
Pro Bono Committee
In addition to all of the varied and interesting
submissions that are published in this issue of the Journal, we are
pleased to highlight the creation of the EASL Section's newest committee
on Pro Bono. It is the goal of this Committee to engage EASL members in
opportunities that will enrich the entertainment, arts and sports law
communities. For more information on this new endeavor, please visit the
Pro Bono Committee section of our website.
Fashion Law Committee
Join EASL's Fashion Law Committee, co-chaired by
David H. Faux and Lisa M. Willis. This committee will keep its
members apprised of new developments in copyright, trademark, and other
applicable business laws that particularly apply to the business
of fashion. Already, the co-chairs are planning events in survival
skills for designers and designers’ representatives in a down
economy, updates on the efforts to gain copyright protection for
designs, and more. They are also looking to expand options and
opportunities for committee members to be involved and informed.
If interested, please contact Dave davefaux@dhf-law.net or
Lisa lisamwillis@gmail.com for more
information
Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal
The Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law
Journal (EASL Journal) is a comprehensive newsletter with a wide
range of topics. Authors can now obtain CLE credit from having an
article published in the EASL Journal. Articles and letters may be
submitted with biographical information via e-mail to the Editor, Elissa
D. Hecker at eheckeresq@eheckeresq.com
. To obtain additional information regarding the EASL
Journal, please click on "The Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law
Journal " tab within the sidebar menu located near the top of the
lefthand side of your screen.
Law Student Initiatives
Law school students who have interests in entertainment,
arts and/or sports law and who are members of the EASL Section are
invited to submit articles. This initiative is unique, as it grants
students the opportunity to be published and gain exposure in these
highly competitive areas of practice. The Journal is among the
profession's foremost law journals. Both it and the Web site have wide
national distribution.
To foster interest in entertainment, arts and sports law as a career
path, the EASL Section invites law students who are Section members to
participate in its Law Student Initiative:
Requirements:
Eligibility: Open to all full-time and part-time J.D.
candidates who are EASL Section members.
Form: Include complete contact information: name, mailing address, law
school, law school club/organization (if applicable), phone number and
e-mail address. There is no length requirement, but any notes must be in
Bluebook endnote form.
Submissions: Articles must be submitted via a Word e-mail attachment
to eheckeresq@eheckeresq.com or accompanied
by a hard copy and on a diskette in Word to:
Elissa D. Hecker, Esq.
Law Office of Elissa D. Hecker
64 Butterwood Lane East
Irvington, NY 10533
Topic:
Each student may write on the subject matter of his/her choice,
so long as it is unique to the entertainment, arts and sport law
fields.
Judging:
Submissions will be judged on the basis of quality of writing,
originality and thoroughness.
Winning submissions will be published in the EASL Journal. All winners
will receive complimentary memberships to the EASL Section for the
following year. In addition, a news article featuring the competition
and the winning entrants will be published in the Journal and on our Web
site, and all winners will be announced at the EASL Section Annual
Meeting.
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