Recent EventsOctober 17-19, 2007: Conference on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in North America, co-sponsored by the International Legal Studies Program. Hosted in conjunction with the World Intellectual Property Organizations (WIPO), ASCAP, BMI and the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC), this forum will explore the challenges that the Internet and new forms of licensing are placing on both copyright law and the music industry. "Copyright Laws: What's Changing and What's Being Done to Protect Artists and Writers?" A day-long seminar with Marybeth Peters, United States Register of Copyrights, April 20, 2007. First Amendment Center Seminar. "Maintaining the Artist: Protecting Music Arts' Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital World," a day-long sponsored by the Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. Spring 2007. |
Technology & Entertainment Law Program
Technology and Entertainment Law has become one of the most vibrant and challenging areas of today’s legal profession. Emerging technologies have transformed and expanded the roles that intellectual property, communications networks and content play in our lives. As information has become increasingly global, attorneys must be familiar with an increasingly broad array of legal regimes. Clients need lawyers who are well prepared to help them navigate this rapidly changing environment. Vanderbilt’s Technology and Entertainment Law Program (TELP) is designed to prepare Vanderbilt law graduates to meet this challenge. The program affords students the opportunity to study with world-class scholars and practitioners, including internet law expert Steven Hetcher and intellectual property expert Laurence Helfer, who address legal issues relating to technology and entertainment law in their teaching, research and practice. The program's adjunct faculty includes Judge Kent A. Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as well as two leading practitioners based in the Nashvile area, Michael Milom and Mark Patterson. Nashville is also home to numerous record labels, television networks, instrument manufacturers, and the two leading performance rights licensing organizations, BMI and ASCAP. The Technology & Entertainment Law Program coordinates with noted practitioners to provide fellowships and externship opportunities to students interested in studying technology, intellectual property and entertainment law. |
