call for speakers

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Maureen Cohen Harrington <mharrington[_at_]thewala.org> wrote:
>
> Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA) is interested in
> hearing from potential speakers for a panel that we are considering
> adding as an expansion of, or reaction to, a special address by
> Professor Marci A. Hamilton at our Symposium to be held on November
> 19, 1999. (Symposium details are provided below.) Professor Hamilton,
> as many of you know, is Director of the Intellectual Property Law
> Program at Cardozo School of Law, and is Faculty Advisor to the
> Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal.
>
> Professor Hamilton's special address, and accompanying Occasional Paper,
> will highlight an excerpt from her upcoming book, Copyright and the
> Constitution. The major thesis of this book is that United States
> copyright law is based on mainstream capitalist precepts and favors the
> commodification of the creative product. At the Symposium, Professor
> Hamilton will explore the historical and philosophical underpinnings of
> the Copyright Clause, laying the groundwork for her argument that
> database protection, moral rights, and duration extension are
> constitutionally suspect, and that enforcement of the antitrust laws
> against the copyright industry is necessary to fulfill the Copyright
> Clause's purpose to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
>
> WALA would like to follow this address with a panel composed of
> participants who could use the address as a springboard for discussing
> First Amendment or antitrust issues raised by the increasing
> concentration of media industries and the resulting concentrated
> ownership of cultural properties.
>
> If appropriate and interesting speakers cannot be found on this
> relatively short notice, WALA will divide the time that would otherwise
> be allocated for this panel between the other two panels in the
> Symposium. In that event, and if there is otherwise sufficient interest
> in the subject, WALA would like to begin planning a similar panel to be
> held at a later date.
>
> WALA's First Annual Arts and Entertainment Law Symposium, "New
> Technology and Globalization," is an full-day program that will
> take place on November 19, 1999 at the Moot Courtroom of Georgetown
> University Law Center, located at 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW,
> Washington D.C.
>
> The program will begin with a Legislative Update by Joel
> Flatow, from RIAA.
>
> The first panel, "Music in the Digital Millennium: Examining New
> Technologies as the Law Evolves," includes the following speakers:
>
> Julie E. Cohen, Esq., Georgetown University Law Center; Richard
> Harrington, The Washington Post; Kenneth M. Kaufman, Esq.,
> Davis Wright Tremaine; Steven Marks, Esq., RIAA; and Jay Rosenthal,
> Esq., Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe.
>
> The second panel, "Balancing Cultural Protection and Free Trade,"
> includes the following speakers:
>
> Jim Fitzpatrick, Esq., Thomas R. Kline, Esq., Andrews & Kurth; Brett
> Miller, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Michael S. Shapiro, Esq.,
> International Intellectual Property Institute; and Jill Cooper Udall,
> Esq.
>
> The cost of the program is $125 for members of WALA or of the D.C.
> Bar Arts, Entertainment & Sports Law Section; $155 for non-members;
> and $25 for students.
>
> CLE credit is available.
>
> Please call or e-mail me for more information.

     Hello!

     Suzanna Sherry, a prominent constitutional law scholar at the University of Minnesota, and I have finished the first draft of a massive paper covering much the same ground as Professor Hamilton's book. I would be thrilled to comment on Marci's excerpt if you still have space at your symposium.

     Paul Heald

Paul J. Heald
Allen Post Professor of Law
University of Georgia
School of Law
Athens, Georgia 30602
706-542-7989

heald[_at_]arches.uga.edu Received on Fri Oct 22 1999 - 13:01:16 GMT