The annual global music conference Midem takes place in Cannes from Saturday January 28 through Tuesday January 31. This global conference brings together nearly 7,000 participants, and approximately 1000 companies, including labels, publishers, artists, distributors and many others from over 77 countries. CDAS Special Counsel Robert J. Epstein will attend. Tweet Follow Print Article Print

CDAS Partner Al J. Daniel is a panelist at the Copyright Law Committee’s Law Clerks Copyright Seminar entitled Copyright Law and Its Basic Concepts, Wednesday, January 25, 6pm — 9pm, at the City Bar at 42 West 44th Street, NYC. The program will overview the key concepts in copyright law in the U.S., including how

Under a recently enacted New York statute, the Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA), all private sector New York employers are required to provide all employees performing work in New York a written notice advising them of their wage/salary rate. These written notices are due on or before February 1, 2012. Background In December 2010, Governor

Update: In an update to the below, on Thursday, April 5, 2012, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals revived and remanded the case to a lower court, instructing the district judge to determine if YouTube had knowledge or awareness of specific infringing material and whether it willfully blinded itself to that specific knowledge. Please

Frederick P. Bimbler and all of us congratulate client Sofia Vergara on her Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. The announcement came the day after her Screen Actors Guild nomination for Oustanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series.

In March, the proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors over Google’s book scanning and book search programs, was rejected. On November 30, at the 2011 Conference on Copyright and Technology, a panel of legal experts including CDAS Partner Mary E. Rasenberger considered the unanswered questions that decision left behind. Click here to

The Tree of Life tied for Best Feature at the 21st Annual Gotham Independent Awards in New York Monday night. The next day the 2011 New York Film Critics’ Circle Awards were announced; Brad Pitt (Best Actor) and Jessica Chastain (Best Supporting Actress) both won for The Tree of Life which also took the award

On Friday December 9 from 2:15pm to 3:30pm, CDAS attorney Zehra J. Abdi presents “Copyright and Trademark Law Primer” at the Practising Law Institute (PLI). This primer is part of PLI’s annual Bridge-the-Gap program; newly admitted attorneys may attend the two-day Bridge-the-Gap program to satisfy all of their annual MCLE requirements. Tweet Follow Print Article

On Thursday January 19, 2012 from 3:30pm to 5pm, Eleanor M. Lackman speaks on the panel “IP Licensing Issues” at the IP Issues in Business Transactions 2012 conference at the Practising Law Institute (PLI). Ms. Lackman will address IP strategies and protections necessary to achieve a timeline of goals for transactions involving copyright, trademark and