Programs

Visting Artist Series

The Visiting Artist Program seeks to bring to the College of Law actors, directors, writers, musicians, painters, sculptors, and other artists so that they may discuss with our students, faculty, and the legal community the issues facing them as working artists.

The Visiting Artists, in dialogue with attorneys and law faculty and students, share their perspective on the legal problems they encounter in their profession, including copyright, contract issues, agency, and moral rights. Through this dialogue we hope to further understanding of these issues by both artists and those in the legal community.

In November of 2005, Jeff Perry, CIPLIT’s first Visiting Artist, spoke on his multi-faceted career as an actor, director, producer and teacher, and some of the legal issues facing him as a celebrity and as the developer of new properties for stage, screen, and television.

Then Austin Pendleton, CIPLIT's second Visiting Artist, along with entertainment law attorney and DePaul alum, Todd Musburger and Professor Margit Livingston gave a presentation focusing on copyright protection for a director's staging of a play in January of 2007. The panel discussed this topic along with other the legal issues facing actors and directors.

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News

9th Annual CIPLIT Symposium & Niro Lecture

Cyberlaw 2.0: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet

October 15-16, 2009
DePaul Center 8005

Cyberlaw 2.0: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet brought together a group of distinguished scholars to contemplate the ramifications of new internet technologies and the changing role of the internet in society. These developments bring, as technological advances often do, both opportunities and risks. Correspondingly, cyberlaw doctrine now confronts challenges resulting from the increasing importance of social networking applications and cloud computing, the drive toward “personalization” of search, advertising, and other internet experiences, and, as life is lived more and more online, the related threats to private life caused by the potential to store more and more complete records of individuals’ experiences. Our speakers explored the ways in which Web 2.0 and beyond affects a wide spectrum of legal issues, ranging from privacy and freedom of expression through intellectual property.

The 12th Annual Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture and Luncheon was sponsored by Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro. It was held on October 15, 2009 in conjunction with the Symposium. This year the lecture was given by Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School’s William H. Neukom Professor of Law.

For more information including Papers and Powerpoints from the lectures, a list of Featured Speakers, and the Symposium Schedule, please visit our Symposium Website.

To read an article published in the Daily Law Bulletin about the conference, please click here.

Protecting Your Marks In & From the New Top Level Domains

September 16, 2009
12:00pm – 5:00pm
DPC 8005

This half-day seminar took a detailed, practical look at the process by which an applicant becomes a registry for a new top level domain, as well as what a brand owner can do to stop a new top level domain that comes too close to an existing brand.

DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This program had been approved for 3 hours of CLE credit.

For more information on this past event, please click here.

To watch videos from this event, download them from iTunes here.

Grammy Network Event

Building and Maintaining an Entertainment Law Practice Anywhere: Essential Knowledge, Marketing, Economic, and Ethics Considerations

September 10, 2009
3:00pm - 6:00pm
DPC 8005

A frank and factual discussion of the realities and practicalities of developing and maintaining an Entertainment Law Practice with an emphasis on Music Law and Business. Special attention was paid to the law office economics and ethical considerations consistently facing pro-active practitioners. Relevant cases, statues, rules and regulations governing these issues was raised also and was referenced and discussed.

DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This program was approved for 2 hours of CLE credit.

For more information on this past event, please click here.

Visiting Artist Series
featuring Jazz Musician, Frank Catalano

Our 2009 Visiting Artist, noted jazz musician Frank Catalano, visited DePaul to discuss his working relationship with his attorney, Gregg Gansmann, and some of the legal issues he has faced in building a performance career in music.

See the news release from DePaul University here.

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