CDAS partner Eleanor M. Lackman will moderate the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. New York Chapter panel “Look Before You Tweet (or Post, or Pin): Copyright Enforcement (or not) in Social Media” on Tuesday, January 22, 2013, from 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Please click here to register (CLE credit is available).

CDAS partner Frederick P. Bimbler and all of us congratulate client Sofia Vergara on her Golden Globe nomination today for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television” for her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on the hit comedy series Modern Family. The nomination comes

Congratulations to client Rebecca Pidgeon on the Grammy nomination for her album “Slingshot” for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, (Helik Hadar, engineer; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer). Ms. Pidgeon, the acclaimed singer-songwriter and actress, also co-wrote nearly all its songs, composing primarily with longtime collaborator, Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein and one song, a country waltz entitled “Baby

Today CDAS client Broadcastr launched what co-founder and President Scott Lindenbaum calls its “next evolution” — the geo-targeted personalized media app SPUN. “The team sounds pretty proud of its design, and deservedly so,” wrote TechCrunch in its review today.

Eleanor M. Lackman joins the “IP Licensing Issues” panel, part of Practising Law Institute’s IP Issues in Business Transactions 2013 program. The program runs for two full days, Thursday, January 3 and Friday, January 4, 2013, beginning at 9:00am, in New York City. Ms. Lackman’s panel, “IP Licensing Issues,” is on Thursday, January 3 at

Steven A. Werier will speak and moderate at the “Sports & Entertainment Law Primer” at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, on Monday, November 19. This panel for law students will feature lawyers and agents from the sports and entertainment industries and will cover a variety of issues faced by practitioners in the field

Eleanor M. Lackman joins the panel “TV or Not TV: Legal Challenges for Internet Video Services,” part of the day-long 2012 Copyright and Technology Conference – the conference examines the latest developments in copyright and content security – on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at the Manhattan Penthouse, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. “TV or

Kenneth N. Swezey will co-moderate the panel “E-Books: The Sequel – Rights, Wrongs and Realities” as part of the New York State Bar Association, Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law section’s 2012 Fall Meeting, on Thursday, November 15, 2012 in New York City. The full meeting runs from 3:30pm to 6:45pm, followed by its reception at

CDAS returns to the DOC NYC Film Festival, (Thursday, November 8 through Thursday, November 15 at the IFC Center, and also at the SVA Theatre, please click links below for venue), once again representing a number of clients and their acclaimed films. CDAS is proud to co-sponsor this exciting festival again as it returns for

With a powerhouse cast led by Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener, A Late Quartet, is now in theaters after its successful premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this fall.