CLE: Legal Issues in Music, Film, & Interactive Media

South By Southwest, in conjunction with Lommen Abdo Law Firm, is presenting a Continuing Legal Education program in the fields of Music, Film, & Interactive Media at no additional cost to the respective registrants of those conferences. All registrants are welcome to attend these law sessions in the Austin Convention Center (attorneys will be given priority if the room approaches capacity).

Attorneys attending may receive up to eight hours of CLE credit during SXSW Music (including one hour of ethics) and two hours of CLE credit during SXSW Film & Interactive. Program titles below are confirmed, but subject to change. Presenters will be announced at a later date. For further information, contact program director Nels Jacobson at cle@sxsw.com.

SXSW and Continuing Legal Education – it’s not just a good idea; it’s the law.

TUESDAY, March 16
Open to Platinum, Gold, Film, and Interactive Badges
3:00-3:30: Sign-in
3:30-4:30: What New Media Has Wrought: Changing Legal Architecture
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, Tag Strategic, Hollywood, CA
Marcelino Ford-Levine, Gen. Manager, Advanced Advertising Initiative, Digital Home Group, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA
Nancy C. Prager, Attorney at Law, Washington, DC

5:00-6:00: Financing Media Productions in the New World of Distribution
Dan Satorius, Lommen, Abdo, Cole King & Stageberg, Minneapolis, MN
Jonathon Gray, Gray Krauss LLP, New York, NY
Jason Janego, New York, NY

FRIDAY, March 19
Open to Platinum and Music Badges
10:30-11:00: Sign-in
11:00-12:00: Music Policy, Legislation, and Food Fights
12:30-1:30: Evaluating the New Business Models: Benefit or B.S.?
2:00-3:00: Merch: Rights in the Unhummable
3:30-4:30: Working with Developing Artists: The Hitters and the Hits

SATURDAY, March 20
Open to Platinum and Music Badges
10:30-11:00: Sign-in
11:00-12:00: Music Law Ethics
12:30-1:30: Music Court: Avoiding or Inviting Litigation
2:00-3:00: Chasing Technology: The Law and Digital Distribution
3:30-4:30: Music Publishing Executives: The Hitters and the Hits