As reported in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline today, Go Digital has acquired U.S. rights to CDAS Partner Marc H. Simon’s feature documentary Unraveled, about disgraced attorney and philanthropist, Marc Dreier, and will be releasing it on VOD and in theaters on April 13, 2012. Additionally, Showtime and CNBC have acquired TV rights to

As the sun sets on Sundance, we congratulate our clients whose films were honored both at the festival and at the DGA Awards this weekend. Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry was awarded the Special Jury Prize, Documentary (which it shared with Live Free or Die) at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend. (Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry,

CDAS clients’ films Robot & Frank, The Imposter, Me@TheZoo and Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry are all enjoying successful premieres this week at The Sundance Film Festival. CDAS Partner Marc H. Simon is in Park City and reports enthusiastic receptions for all our clients’ films, and other exciting events and meetings. Acclaimed by Variety, The Hollywood

CDAS clients’ The Tree of Life was among the films leading in major Oscar categories when nominations were announced this morning. Terrence Malick was nominated for Best Director, Emmanuel Lubezki was nominated for Best Cinematography and the film has been nominated for Best Picture. (For The Tree of Life, Legal: Susan H. Bodine, Frederick P.

Sales of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy are spiking, reports this week’s New York Times. When production began last year on the Lionsgate adaptation of the Hunger Games trilogy there were 9.6 million books in the trilogy in circulation. An online marketing push and MTV spotlights “added kindling” to buzz already spreading across the

The Literary Works and Related Rights Committee meets Monday, January 23 at the New York City Hilton during the NYSBA 2012 Annual Meeting, to discuss the legal and business landscape affecting literary works, (e-books and related emerging platforms) and strategies to meet these and other growing innovations in publishing and content distribution. Kenneth N. Swezey

On Saturday, February 4, (from 12:30pm to 1:30pm), CDAS Partner Mary E. Rasenberger will be at The Copyright Society of the USA’s 2012 Mid-Winter Meeting in L.A. on the panel with the Copyright Office entitled Registration and Recordation in the 21st Century. The panel addresses the future of registration and recordation and related goals of

The annual DeSilva+Phillips Media Dealmakers Summit 2012, now in its tenth year, will be held Thursday, February 2 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Last year, over 250 attendees, representing a combined $85 billion in 2010 M&A transactions, attended the summit. This year Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum, co-founders of Broadcastr will be

After some time auditing college level physics courses by night, math prodigy Jake Barnett soon dropped-out… of elementary school. He was 8 years-old. At age 12 he was doing paid scientific research, and today he is a straight-A honors college sophomore lecturing crowds at his university science symposium. Jake is now 13 years-old. To help

CDAS Partner Mary E. Rasenberger will be speaking at Columbia Law this Thursday, January 26, from 12:10pm to 1:20pm on a panel entitled “21st Century Copyright Gone Wild: New Terms for Works in the Public Domain, Trying to Stop Foreign Peer-to-Peer Websites & So Much More!” The event, co-hosted by two Columbia Law School student