On this week’s episode, we talk to Fabio Bertoni, the General Counsel for the New Yorker Magazine. We discuss moving from a big law firm to becoming an in-house counsel of a major publication, the process of pre-publication review, and the current media landscape and how it has changed a lawyer’s duty to the publication.

Fabio Bertoni is general counsel of The New Yorker magazine, where he is responsible for pre-publication review of all articles, website posts, videos and other content published by The New Yorker, as well as supervising legal issues surrounding The New Yorker Festival and other events.  Prior to working at The New Yorker, Fabio was assistant general counsel at HarperCollins Publishers, where he conducted pre-publication review of non-fiction books, and handled legal issues for the Children’s Division, negotiated author-publisher agreements, and advised on licensing, copyright and trademark issues.  Prior to that, Fabio was vice president and deputy general counsel for ALM Media, publisher of The American Lawyer, the New York Law Journal, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines across the United States.

Fabio also serves as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where he teaches a seminar on Media Law Drafting.  He began his legal career at the firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, after graduating from Columbia Law School and from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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On this week’s episode, we bring you our IPLJ’s event held earlier this month, Dance Dance Legal Revolution. Moderated by IPLJ Associate Editor, Kara Krakower, the panel will discuss the popular video game Fortnite, created by Epic Games, which has recently found itself in hot water for selling content that mirrors dance moves made famous by other artists. Some of those artists, such as Brooklyn rapper 2 Milly and star of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Alfonso Ribeiro, have gone as far as to bring suit against Epic Games for the appropriation of their art, image, and brand. The attorneys of Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP, will be joining us for a discussion about the lawsuits, its cultural implications, and the attorneys’ experience working at a young, up-and-coming law firm.

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This week Patrick Hao, IPLJ Online Editor, and Alessandra Dagirmanjian, IPLJ Notes and Articles Editor, speak with Erik Bierbauer, Vice President of Litigation at NBC Universal and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University. They discuss Justice Thomas’s analysis of the landmark First Amendment case, New York Times v. Sullivan, in a recent denial of certiorari to Kathrine McKee. Erik shares his thoughts on Justice Thomas’s interpretation of Sullivan and how a reconsideration of the case could affect defamation law.

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On this week’s episode, Fordham IPLJ staff member, Meredith Miller, interviews former PTAB judge and current patent litigator, Brian Murphy. They discuss Mr. Murphy’s experiences as a PTAB judge and a patent practitioner, the impact PTAB and associated post-grant proceedings have had on patent law, and predictions of how PTAB might evolve in the future. Mr. Murphy is currently a partner at Haug Partners in New York City and was a Lead Administrative Patent Judge on the Patent and Trial Appeal Board at the USPTO. Ms. Miller is a second-year law student at Fordham Law intending to go into biotechnology patent practice.

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The following should not be construed as legal advice — just good advice. On this week’s episode, Mr. Michael Golland, Senior Counsel at Complex Media,  sat down with Staff Writer, Jeanine Botwe to drop some gems, as part of our continued effort to facilitate exposure to careers within Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law.

After graduating from The George Washington University in 1989 with a degree in Finance, Michael moved to San Diego where he began his career as an analyst for commercial real estate investors and eventually became an investor himself.  In 1994, Michael earned his JD from Whittier Law School in Los Angeles and began his career as a business attorney.  For the first seven years of his career as an attorney, Michael handled transactional and dispute resolution matters for his clients.  In this capacity, Michael would form and advise entities on matters related to the operation of their business such as employment issues, commercial leasing, asset acquisition and sale, intellectual property protection, general business strategy and represent his clients in litigation.  Michael began his career as an entertainment attorney in the music business where he represented artists and composers in both the entertainment and gaming industries.  Eventually, Michael began to represent other players in entertainment, media and licensing such as actors, writers, directors and producers. Michael has acted as production counsel for many feature films (including feature length documentaries) as well as scripted and unscripted television and new media productions.  In 2016, Michael relocated to New York to begin his career as in-house counsel for Complex Networks, a leading digital publisher where he oversees all of the company’s content production and distribution as well as events such as ComplexCon.

IP of the Week: Geico Hump Day Commercial

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On this week episode, Online Editor, Patrick Hao, talks to film critic, podcaster and Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, Peter Labuza. They discuss Hollywood legal history and the role entertainment lawyers had, through contracts, shifted the way Hollywood Film Studios produced movies and affected the art.

Peter Labuza is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California and a John E. Rovensky Fellow in US Business and Economic History. His research interests include Hollywood and media industry historiography, legal history, political economy, art cinema, and cinephilia. His dissertation explores the rise of the legal profession in Hollywood and its contribution to the organizational business reforms and cultural discourse of art within the industry after World War II. He has published in The Velvet Light Trap, Film Quarterly, Mediascape, Sight & Sound, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and he currently serves as Assistant Book Review Editor for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal). He has also published as a film critic for Variety, The Village Voice, and Filmmaker Magazine among others, and hosts The Cinephiliacs podcast. Previously, Labuza earned both his BA and MA in Film Studies from Columbia University.

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On this week’s episode, we bring you part 3 of our 26th Annual IPLJ Symposium. Moderated by Ron Lazebnik, Clinical Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, the Transparency of Notice and Choice panel will evaluate the efficacy of this mechanism to protect information privacy. Panelists will focus on the role that both content and design play in notifying users of their privacy rights. Panelists will also discuss what it means to provide users with proper notice and choice in an age when digital media and technology are constantly evolving.

Panelists include: Wendy Seltzer, Strategy Lead and Counsel at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); Liz Woolery, Senior Policy Analyst at Center for Democracy and Technology; Maya Uppaluru, Associate at Crowell & Moring LLP and; Paula Breuning, Counsel at Sequel Technology and IP Law.

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This week, Andrew Nietes, IPLJ staff member, sits down with Kuan Huang, a senior litigation associate at Latham & Watkins. Their conversation centers on the ins and outs of non-patent intellectual property trials at the Big Law level on both sides of the “v.” and covers topics from copyright font trolls to the role of expert testimony. Mr. Huang has worked on a variety of intellectual property matters including copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Nietes, a second year law student at Fordham, plans on entering this field as well, litigating similar cases in intellectual property; he will be joining Mr. Huang at Latham & Watkins as a Summer Associate in 2019.

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This week we bring you our second installment of the 26th Annual IPLJ Symposium, “Data Governance Regimes Panel.” Moderated by Olivier Sylvain, Professor of Law at Fordham University of Law, The Data Governance Regimes panel will discuss the challenges in maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of data as it continues to accumulate. Panelists will evaluate current compliance obligations and the effectiveness of the FTC in providing standardized frameworks for effective governance, depending on the type of data that companies collect. Panelists will review recommendations for and against more expansive federal and state privacy legislation, looking at whether current regulations support modern business models and innovation in the digital sphere.

Panelists include: Lisa J. Sotto, Partner and Chair, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP; Boris Segalis, Partner and Global Vice Chair, Cyber/Data/Privacy at Cooley LLP; Andrew Kopelman, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, and Chief Privacy Counsel at Medidata Solutions; Anthony Ford, Senior Data Privacy Counsel at Medidata Solutions.

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