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THE PHIL COWAN MEMORIAL/BMI
SCHOLARSHIP
Law students, take note of this publishing and
scholarship opportunity: The Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law
Section of the New York State Bar Association (EASL), in partnership
with BMI, the world’s largest music performing rights
organization, has established the Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship!
Created in memory of Cowan, an esteemed entertainment lawyer and a
former Chair of EASL, the Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship fund
offers up to two awards of $2,500 each on an annual basis in Phil
Cowan’s memory to a law student who is committed to a practice
concentrating in one or more areas of entertainment, art or sports
law.
The Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship has been in
effect since 2005. It is awarded each year at EASL’s Annual
Meeting in January in New York City.
The Competition
Each Scholarship candidate must write an original paper
on any legal issue of current interest in the area of entertainment, art
or sports law. The paper should be twelve to fifteen pages in length,
double-spaced and including footnotes, in Bluebook form. All papers
should be submitted to designated faculty members of each respective law
school. All law schools will screen the papers and submit the three best
to EASL’s Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship Committee. The
Committee will read the papers submitted and will select the Scholarship
recipient(s).
Eligibility
The Competition is open to all students attending
eligible law schools. “Eligible” law schools mean all
accredited law schools within New York State, along with Rutgers
University Law School and Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey, and up to
ten other accredited law schools throughout the country to be selected,
at the Committee’s discretion, on a rotating basis.
Yearly Deadlines
November 15th: Law School Faculty liaison submits 3 best
papers to the EASL/BMI Scholarship Committee
January 15th: EASL/BMI Scholarship Committee will
etermine the winner(s)
The winner will be announced, and the Scholarship(s)
awarded at EASL’s January Annual Meeting.
Prerogatives of EASL/BMI’s Scholarship
Committee
The Scholarship Committee is composed of the current
Chair of EASL, all former EASL Chairs who are still active in the
Section, all Section District Representatives, and any other interested
member of the EASL Executive Committee. Each winning paper will be
published in the EASL Journal and will be made available to EASL members
on the EASL website. BMI reserves the right to post each winning paper
on the BMI website, and to distribute copies of each winning paper in
all media. The Scholarship Committee is willing to waive the right of
first publication so that students may simultaneously submit their
papers to law journals or other school publications. The Scholarship
Committee reserves the right to submit all papers it receives to the
EASL Journal for publication and to the EASL Web site. The Scholarship
Committee also reserves the right to award only one Scholarship or no
Scholarship if it determines, in any given year that, respectively, only
one paper, or no paper is sufficiently meritorious. All rights of
dissemination of the papers by each of EASL and BMI are
non-exclusive.
Payment of Monies
Payment of Scholarship funds will be made by EASL/BMI
directly to the law school of the winner, to be credited against the
winner’s account.
Donations
The Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship Fund is pleased
to accept donations. The donations are tax-deductible. All donations
should be made by check, and be payable to The New York Bar
Foundation. Each donation should indicate that it is designated
for the Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship. All donations
should be forwarded to The New York Bar Foundation, One Elk Street,
Albany, New York 12207, Attention: Director of Finance.
About BMI
BMI is an American performing rights organization that
represents approximately 300,000 songwriters, composers and music
publishers in all genres of music. The non-profit-making company,
founded in 1940, collects license fees on behalf of those American
creators it represents, as well as thousands of creators from around the
world who chose BMI for representation in the United States. The license
fees BMI collects for the "public performances" of its repertoire of
approximately 4.5 million compositions are then distributed as royalties
to BMI-member writers, composers and copyrightholders.
About the New York State Bar Association /
EASL
The 72,000-member New York State Bar Association is the
official statewide organization of lawyers in New York and the largest
voluntary state bar association in the nation. Founded in 1976, NYSBA
programs and activities have continuously served the public and improved
the justice system for more than 125 years.
The more than 1,600 members of the Entertainment, Arts
and Sports Law Section of the NYSBA represent varied interests,
including headline stories, matters debated in Congress, and issues
ruled upon by the courts today. The EASL Section provides substantive
case law, forums for discussion, debate and information-sharing, pro
bono opportunities, and access to unique resources including its popular
quarterly publication, The Journal.
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