HLS Conference to Tackle Online Entertainment
Post date: March 1, 2001 -- 10:15 am
This Friday, March 2, entertainment industry executives and litigators will partake in a Harvard Law School conference exploring the impact of technological convergence in the media. Additionally, the participants will examine contract and labor negotiations in the industry. Harvard Law Professor Paul Weiler, a noted entertainment law expert, will deliver opening remarks at 2 p.m. in Langdell Hall.
The keynote address will be given by Jon Taplin‹former manager of Bob Dylan and producer of a number of award-winning films and television programs‹ and will be followed by two panel discussions. The schedule of events is as follows. All speeches and panels to take place in Langdell South.
2:00 pm -- Opening remarks by Harvard Law Professor Paul Weiler
2:10 pm -- Keynote address by Jon Taplin, President and CEO of Intertainer
³Negotiating Entertainment: Contract and Labor Negotiations in the Entertainment Industry² (panel discussion)
- Larry Stein, Partner, Alsculer Grossman Stein & Kahan (moderator)
- Adam Shulman, Manager, Artists Management Group
- John Dellaverson, Executive V.P. at Lions Gate Entertainment, Partner at Loeb & Loeb
³Entertainment Online: Technology Convergence in the Media² (panel discussion)
- Jay Cooper, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, Head of Music Department, Former President of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (moderator)
- Jay Spillane, Partner, Entertainment Litigator, Fox & Spillane LLP
- Yakub Hazzard, Alsculer Grossman Stein & Kahan, Entertainment Litigator
- Michael Plonsker, Alsculer Grossman Stein & Kahan, Entertainment Litigator