Eleanor M. Lackman will moderate the panel “Copyright Enforcement on the Edge” (at NYU’s Kimmel Center, Silver Board Room), Friday, October 19 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm, as part of the CMJ 2012 Music Marathon (and as part of the Entertainment Business Law Seminar co-sponsored by the EASL section of The New York State Bar Association).

CDAS partner Eleanor M. Lackman and associate Zehra J. Abdi were named “Rising Stars” by 2012 Super Lawyers, and of counsel Robert I. Freedman has been named a “Super Lawyer” for the seventh consecutive year.

Transmedia spans across multiple platforms and formats to tell a single story. By merging television, movies, books, websites, games, apps, even the real world, transmedia opens new opportunities for rich, innovative development of a narrative and brand. Done well, the techniques permeate the daily lives of their audience by weaving unique pieces of content in

CDAS successfully represented the preeminent international luxury company LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Group) in National Arbitration Forum proceedings involving a domain name. CDAS partner Jean Albert first obtained a favorable preliminary decision finding a likelihood of success and irreparable harm. The final decision concluded that the defendant had registered the domain name either to

CDAS partners Susan H. Bodine, Andrea F. Cannistraci, Marc H. Simon, CDAS Of Counsel Janis C. Nelson and attorney David E. Ashley attended the Toronto International Film Festival, (Thursday, September 6 through Sunday, September 16). Popular premieres of clients’ films and newsworthy deals marked an enjoyable and successful festival.

From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, Chaplin — starting today in previews — is Broadway’s musical journey of the man behind the legend of Charlie Chaplin, chronicling his upbringing, professional breakthroughs and the personal and political scandals of the silent film star. Rob McClure (Avenue Q, I’m Not Rappaport) originated his

On Wednesday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – which oversees the international internet address system — unveiled 1,930 applications it had received for new top-level domain names (TLDs). Dubbed “Reveal Day,” ICANN made public the applications for new domain extensions such as .google, .book, .app, .beer, .bank, .cloud and .buy. The

On Friday November 11, from 9:30am to 3:45pm, CDAS Partner Mary E. Rasenberger will speak at the 2011 IPLJ at a Fordham School of Law conference, “IP Bullying or Proactive Enforcement?” about the Righthaven cases.

Eleanor M. Lackman speaks on a panel entitled “The New Frontier: Clouds” as part of the 23rd Annual North American Entertainment, Sports and Intellectual Property Law Conference in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on November 12. This plenary, the closing panel of the conference, focuses on cloud-based media and how to navigate the web of IP,

The critically-acclaimed documentary My Reincarnation is now in theaters in New York, poised to expand to other markets. Jennifer Fox’s documentary follows Yeshi, the Westernized son of Buddhist master Chogal Namkhai Norbu. Yeshi has been acknowledged since the age of 5 to be the reincarnation of Khyentse, a great Dzogchen Buddhist master himself. Still Yeshi