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Entertainment & Sports Law Forum 2022: 3 General, 1 Dual
The Entertainment & Sports Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association is pleased to announce that its annual CLE will take place at Belmont College of Law on May 19. The panels and speakers slated for the CLE are sure to keep your attention and provide you with up-to-date information and inside knowledge on some of the hottest topics in the entertainment and sports industries currently, including: blockchain technology and the role it plays in the music industry, including NFTs and the metaverse; trademark and licensing issues within the Web 3.0 world; legal considerations related to the explosion of unlicensed music being used on social media; and ethical guidelines when negotiating new music contracts.
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Courses Included
- Entertainment & Sports Law Forum 2022: Web 3.0: Exploring the Current Role of NFTs and Blockchain Technologies in the Music Industry Today
This one-hour panel will explore the current role of blockchain technology in the music industry today. Specifically, the focus will be on NFTs and how they can be utilized by artists and creators. The discussion will cover practical and legal considerations surrounding this topic.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Anjlee Khurana, Attorney At Law, Nashville
Anjlee Khurana is a longtime music lawyer who has been waiting for blockchain to come to music. In addition to extensive artist representation, she has worked as a legal engineer and as general...
- Kent Marcus, Marcus & Colvin, LLP, Nashville
Kent Marcus is a partner in Marcus & Colvin, LLP, an entertainment law firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, which provides focused business affairs and legal counsel for artists and entertainment...
- Colton McGee, BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, Brentwood
Colton S. McGee, Esq. is Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, located in Nashville, Tennessee. Colton has spent the past 12+ years with BBR Music Group...
- Dillon Mysliwiec, The Upstate Sound LLC, Nashville
Dillon Mysliwiec is an Engineer, turned marketer, turned serial entrepreneur. He started his career at an industrial manufacturing plant in upstate New York as a Design Engineer and later as a...
- Barron Solomon, Solo Music, Nashville
Solo Music Is the brain child of Barron Solomon. Since first learning about blockchain technology and working on several early blockchain projects and related apps, Barron's passionate focus has been...
- Anjlee Khurana, Attorney At Law, Nashville
- Entertainment & Sports Law Forum 2022: Trademark & Related Issues within the Web 3.0 World for Entertainment and Sports Law
This one-hour panel will examine trademark and licensing-related issues that arise in entertainment and sports law with respect to new technology. The expert panelists will explore intellectual property issues specific to the Web 3.0 universe.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Bobby Bramhall, Athlete Licensing Company, Knoxville
Bobby Bramhall is the president of Athlete Licensing Company. He is a sports attorney, former Assistant Athletic Director at Texas A&M University and professional baseball player. Bramhall...
- Dale Hutcherson, Hutcherson Law, Dresden
Dale Hutcherson’s humble roots in his hometown of Dresden, Tennessee combined with his experiences across America make him a well-versed attorney with the ability to see your legal issues from...
- Melia Jones, Athlete Licensing Company,
Melia Jones, ALC Executive Vice President and General Counsel, is a graduate of Texas A&M and Texas Tech University School of Law and Rawls College of Business. She spent eight years working at...
- Bess Morgan, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Nashville
Bess Morgan focuses her practice on helping clients acquire, protect, enforce and exploit their intellectual property and other proprietary rights.
Bess has extensive experience prosecuting,... - Chris Wittine, Creative Artists Agency, Nashville
Chris Wittine is a Digital Media Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Wittine is based in the Nashville office and represents many of the world’s...
- Bobby Bramhall, Athlete Licensing Company, Knoxville
- Entertainment & Sports Law Forum 2022: Runaway Train of Unlicensed Music on Social Media
In an effort to avoid being subject to indefinite infringement liability, social media platforms have found creative ways to license the use of music synched with user-generated content. But, how do we navigate the ever-changing technological landscape to ensure our clients are both protected and paid, especially when each platform’s policies differ? This panel will go through a multi-layered scenario of how music-licensing issues frequently arise, discuss considerations for a range of affected clients – from brands to influencers to entertainers to athletes, and analyze infringement liability for various types of users and “posters” of content.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Jenna Harris, Ritholz Levy Fields LLP, Nashville
Jenna Harris has a broad-based litigation practice at Ritholz Levy Fields, LLP with a primary focus on intellectual property and commercial litigation, and she is experienced in complex business...
- Megan Joyce, Provident Entertainment, Nashville
Megan Joyce is Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Provident Entertainment.
Megan has spent the past fifteen years as an in-house business & legal affairs executive across both... - Lauren Kilgore, Shackelford Bowen McKinley & Norton LLP, Nashville
Lauren’s practice is focused on entertainment, intellectual property, general business litigation, and transactional entertainment matters. Lauren has successfully tried jury and non-jury...
- Jessica Myers, Branstetter, Stranch & Jennings, PLLC, Asheville
Jessica Myers concentrates her practice in general civil litigation, representing individuals and entities in both state and federal courts. Before joining BS&J in 2019, she worked at the Office...
- Jenna Harris, Ritholz Levy Fields LLP, Nashville
- Entertainment & Sports Law Forum 2022: Ethical Guidelines to Consider When Negotiating New Music Contracts
This panel will discuss how, from an ethical standpoint, to be the best advocate for artists, songwriters and producers from both sides of the negotiation table. The panelists will engage in a comprehensive discussion of what considerations come in to play when negotiating on behalf of various types of clients, recent and non-traditional trends in what rights those clients are seeking to maintain, who really has the best bargaining power, as well as a number of other ethical concerns to consider, or avoid, when advocating for your clients.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:1.00General Credits:0.00Speakers/Producers
- Alandis Brassel Sr., Brassel Law PLLC, Nashville
Active in the arts and entertainment community, Alandis is a member of The Recording Academy (Grammys ®) and a director on the board of Worldwide Stages, a state-of-the-art soundstage and...
- Matthew Cottingham, Lois Brisbois, Nashville
Matt Cottingham joined Ritholz Levy Fields LLP in 2014 as an associate in the firm’s Entertainment Group in Nashville, specializing in entertainment, intellectual property and business law. Matt...
- Sarah Gerlecz, EMPIRE, Nashville
- Ricardo Hernandez, Concord, Nashville
Ricky Hernandez is Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for Concord.
- Alandis Brassel Sr., Brassel Law PLLC, Nashville
- Member: 200.00
- Non-Member: 320.00
- Section: 160.00
TBA members who are judges, lawmakers and law students can take TBA CLE onsite courses at no charge for the programming. There may be a separate charge if meals, special materials or other premium features are involved.
General Credits: 3
Total Credits: 4 Highlights
- Convenient CLE package
- Ethics credit available
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