Berlin/New York: Tribeca Film announced it has acquired North American rights to Side by Side, after its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The documentary is an illuminating journey exploring the transition from film to digital technology and its implications, featuring top directors, producers, cinematographers and many others. Produced and hosted by Keanu Reeves and

Once again Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP presented an exciting event on February 16 during global Social Media Week. “Nets of Social Networks: Minimizing Legal Risk in Social Media” featured Partner Kenneth N. Swezey and Partner Eleanor M. Lackman who presented on an array of legal issues affecting the social media landscape. Topics included

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