Art and Law Symposiums, Cultural Production, and Intellectual Property

Two upcoming events on art and law which you should not miss (and also because I’m participating in both of them).

The first is coming up on Friday, April 9, 2010.  The Ever changing Legal Canvas: Art Law & Culture and Its Impact on American Government and Jurisprudence consists of a number of afternoon panels on copyright, the First Amendment, art crimes, and their effects on visual artists. The event takes place at the Cornell Club’s Ivy Room, from 12pm to 5pm. For more information on this event please click here.

And then there’s, Access Restricted: “Intellectual Property in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” a round table debate between practicing lawyers, legal theorists, and a sociologist on who owns what and what is really at stake when creative production is regulated through the structures of property rights. I’m moderating this panel, which will feature Fordham Law Prof Sonia Katyal, IP lawyer and artist Alfred Steiner, Sociologist and NYU Prof Andrew Ross, and art historian/lawyer Virginia Rutledge. This event is free to the public and takes place on Wednesday, April 14th, from 6:30 to 8:30pm, at the law offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. For more info on this event, please click here.

Hope to see you there!

Tags: art crime, Art Law, art law theorists, film, painting, photography, sculpture