Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal

The Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, & Entertainment Law Journal (IPLJ) Podcast explores interesting legal topics in copyright, trademark, and patent law, while tackling hot topics in entertainment and media.

  1. 05/23/2019

    Being the In-House Counsel of The New Yorker featuring Fabio Bertoni (Ep. 65)

    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. Our theme song is Roller Blades by Otis McDonald. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review! Website: www.fordhamiplj.org Twitter: @FordhamIPLJ Instagram: @Fordhamiplj Facebook: www.facebook.com/FordhamIPLJ Patreon: www.patreon.com/fordhamiplj

    31 min
  2. 02/19/2019

    Episode 60: Lawyering for Complex Media featuring Michael Golland

    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 Our theme song is Roller Blades by Otis McDonald. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review! Website: www.fordhamiplj.org Twitter: @FordhamIPLJ Instagram: @Fordhamiplj Facebook: www.facebook.com/FordhamIPLJ Patreon: www.patreon.com/fordhamiplj

    35 min
  3. 02/12/2019

    Episode 59: How Entertainment Lawyers Changed the Hollywood Studio System – Featuring Peter Labuza

    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. Sources Mentioned: Peter Labuza, Putting Penn to Paper: Warner Bros.’s Contract Governance and the Transition to New Hollywood, 80 The Velvet Light Trap 4 (2017).   Janet Staiger, "Tame" Authors and the Corporate Laboratory: Stories, Writers, and Scenarios in Hollywood, 8:4 Q. Rev. of Film Stud. 33 (1983). Mark Garrett Cooper, Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood (Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2010). Karen Ward Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006). Emily Carman, Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System (Univ. of Texas Press 2016). Eric Hoyt, Hollywood and the Income Tax, 1929—1955, 22 Film Hist. 5 (2010). Vanessa Schwartz, It's So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (Univ. of Chicago Press 2007). Catherine L. Fisk, Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (Univ. of North Carolina Press 2009). Catherine L. Fisk, Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue (Harvard Univ. Press 2016). Favorite Piece of IP of the Week: Something Good-Negro Kiss (Short Film) Our theme song is Roller Blades by Otis McDonald. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review! Website: www.fordhamiplj.org Twitter: @FordhamIPLJ Instagram: @Fordhamiplj Facebook: www.facebook.com/FordhamIPLJ Patreon: www.patreon.com/fordhamiplj

    58 min
4.8
out of 5
6 Ratings

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The Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, & Entertainment Law Journal (IPLJ) Podcast explores interesting legal topics in copyright, trademark, and patent law, while tackling hot topics in entertainment and media.