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CHAPTER CHAIR Chad Rutkowski, Woodcock Washburn LLP Cira Center Floor 12, 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-2891 P: (215) 568-3100 | F: (215) 568-3439 | E: crutkowski@woodcock.com |
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PAST EVENTS Date: January 12, 2012 Title: THE CENTER FOR COPYRIGHT INFORMATION (“CCI”)— Combatting Infringement With Information Location: Woodcock Washburn LLP Cira Centre, 12th Floor 2929 Arch Street -- 5:30pm Description: Since at least the mid-1990s and the development of the Internet as a widely adopted means of communication, producers and owners of music and later movies, TV shows, software and electronic games have been concerned about the increasing use of technology to make and share copies of their works. After the DMCA passed in 1998, Napster soon followed, frustrating the content industries efforts to stop piracy and control fair use, as peer to peer (“P2P”) file sharing was not contemplated by the drafters of the DMCA. After more than 3 years of negotiation the MPAA, RIAA (i.e., the major players in the movie and music industries) and 5 of the country’s largest Internet Service Providers (“ISP(s)”) entered into an MOU and formed the Center For Copyright Information, Inc. (“CCI”). CCI is dedicated to educating the public about copyright and the legal and other risks of using P2P services for infringement as well as legal means to obtain the content products they want through a system of Copyright Alerts intended to inform them of allegations of infringement. This program will discuss copyright and P2P use as it affects content industries, ISPs, the public and legislators/regulators, the role CCI hopes to play and the methods the various ISPs may deploy. Speaker: Alan Lewine Flyer (PDF): CSUSA_PA_Jan_12.DOC Date: June 17, 2011 Title: Characters and the Law Location: Drinker Biddle, One Logan Square, 18th and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Description: Jay Kogan, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, and Deputy General Counsel of DC Comics, will discuss legal protections available to characters and explore how such protections affect character creation, exploitation, and rights enforcement. Flyer (PDF): Date: March 30, 2011 Title: Artists Resale Royalty Roundtable Location: University of Pennsylvania Law School, 3400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - Silverman 245A Description: The Philadelphia Chapter of the Copyright Society and the Penn Law Association for Law and the Arts are hosting an exciting panel about the Artists Resale Royalty. The panel will include a discussion of the royalty rights in the U.S. at the state level and previous efforts at recognition of a droit de suite at the federal level; the pros and cons of possible new federal legislation on resale royalty; and comparative discussion of approach to the artists resale royalty right in other countries. Flyer (PDF): copyright society announcement (final).pdf Date: February 24, 2011 Title: STUDENT PROGRAM: A Day in the Life of a Private Practice Copyright Lawyer Location: Ballard Spahr LLP, 1735 Market Street, 42nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599 Description: In a new series of programs designed specifically for Philadelphia area law students, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Copyright Society presents a “Day in the Life.” This series will feature local copyright attorneys speaking to, and taking questions from, law students about their careers, including what they do currently, what paths they took to get to where they are now, and generally what a typical day in their professional lives would look like. The first “Day in the Life” program will feature four attorneys who practice copyright law in law firms in the Philadelphia area. Please join us for this interactive and informative program! Flyer (PDF): Date: February 15, 2011 Title: The Google Books Settlement, Michael Boni and Joanne Zack of Boni & Zack LLC Location: Dechert LLP, Cira Centre, 2929 Arch Street, 21st Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Description: A brief overview of the Google Books Settlement and copyright issues associated with the settlement. Flyer (PDF): THE PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER OF THE COPYRIGHT SOCIETY (2_15)-2.docx Date: December 9, 2010 Title: Tales of Brave Ulysses-Navigating the Copyright Issues of a Mobile App Location: Woodcock Washburn, LLP, Cira Centre, 12th Floor, 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Description: The launch of Ulysses Seen in Apple’s iTunes store in June of this year nabbed some headlines over Apple’s content guidelines. But the app began as a web-based project, and its unique use of public domain material and crowd-sourced content posed interesting issues of copyright law when it was repackaged as an Apple iPad app. Chad A. Rutkowski, a co-founder and business manager of the company that created the project (and a copyright attorney with Woodcock Washburn), will discuss some of the choppy waters and looming perils that faced the project’s odyssey from web-based community project to a well-known iPad app. Flyer (PDF): Copyright Socity Flier.doc Date: October 20, 2009 Title: Copyright Criminals Movie Screening Location: The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street / 7:00PM Description: COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and money. Produced by University of Iowa Professor Kembrew McLeod and Benjamin Franzen, this documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. Sampling, or riffing, is as old as music itself, but as technologies developed in the 1980s and ’90s that made it easier to sample existing sound recordings – and when record label company lawyers got involved – everything changed. Years before people started downloading music off the internet, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change, and the debate still rages today. For details: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals/getinvolved.html Flyer (PDF): Date: February 26, 2009 Title: The Making Available Right: What Went Wrong? Location: Woodcock Washburn, LLP, Cira Center, 12th Floor, 2929 Arch St., Philadelphia Description: The Making Available Right: What Went Wrong? Is placing music in a shared P2P folder a copyright violation? What about hyperlinking to a music file? Courts' rulings have been inconsistent. Featuring Cardozo law professor Justin Haughes & Mitchell Silberberg partner Eric Schwartz,this program will consider the obligations of U.S. law under international copyright treaties and the several U.S. courts that have been called upon to rule on "making available" scenarios by P2P users and websites. Flyer (PDF): Date: March 11, 2008 Title: The Rhetoric of the Copyright Debates Location: Woodcock Washburn LLP, The Cira Centre 12th Floor, 2929 Arch Street Description: The use of rhetoric in copyright debates seems to have reached new levels. Although copyright debates always have been freighted with metaphors, moral panics, and folk devils, the rhetoric seems to have increased over the years as the focus of the discussions turned towards a very public medium -- the Internet. Flyer (PDF): CSUSA_Event_3_11_08.pdf Date: November 29, 2007 Title: "Copyright and Art" Event Location: The Cira Center, Woodcock Washburn LLP, 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Description: What are the legal limitations on using materials created by others? How do I turn my art into money? In the age of “rip, mix, burn” - are the rules changing? Guest Presenter: Ray Dowd, Esq. of Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP New York, NY Flyer (PDF): 10.25.07 Copyright Event.pdf Date: January 6, 2007 Title: "Goodis v. United Artists Television, Inc. - "The Fugitive" Copyright Case" Location: The Blue Horizon, 1314 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19121-4308 Description: 50 words or less Flyer (PDF): Goodiscon - 2007.pdf |
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