News & Events 2011

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"ASK THE LAWYER" AT MUSEUM LAW CONFERENCE

Lehmann Strobel PC’s managing partner, Walter G. Lehmann, will participate in an “Ask the Lawyer” session as part of ALI-ABA’s 2011 “Legal Issues in Museum Administration”. The annual conference for attorneys and museum administrators will be held in Washington DC March 22 through 24. “’Ask the Lawyer’ is a free-ranging discussion of current museum law topics – it will be fun to hear what is on people’s minds this year” says Lehmann. “Among other things, I’m sure that questions about intellectual property management – copyrights and “fair use” in particular – will be raised.” For more information, contact Walter G. Lehmann at 717-397-3210 or walt@lehmannstrobel.com.

MEDIA OWNERSHIP SYMPOSIUM

Sylvia Strobel will moderate the session “Key Policy and Regulatory Trends for Media Ownership” which is part of the Alliance for Women in Media’s “Media Ownership Symposium” on March 25 in Washington DC. Participating on the panel will be industry experts from the National Hispanic Media Coalition, Venable LLP, Women Impacting Public Policy, and Lermen Senter. Strobel, a partner in the art and entertainment law firm Lehmann Strobel PC, is former Chair of the Alliance for Women in Media and the Executive Director of the Alliance for Community Media. For more information about the Alliance of Women in Media, visit www.allwomeninmedia.org.

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS CONGRESSIONAL ARTS CAUCUS BRIEFING

Strobel will present the Public Media briefing to the Congressional Arts Caucus during a hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on March 25 in her capacity as Executive Director of the Alliance for Community Media. The congressional briefing is part of the Americans’ for the Arts 2011 Advocacy Day. For more information, contact the Alliance for Community Media (www.allcommunitymedia.org) or Sylvia Strobel at Sylvia@alliancecm.org or Sylvia@lehmannstrobel.com.

ARTISTS RESALE ROYALTY ROUNDTABLE AT PENN LAW SCHOOL

Walter G. Lehmann, managing partner of the art and entertainment law firm Lehmann Strobel PC, will moderate a panel discussion on artists’ resale royalty rights. The panel, hosted by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Copyright Society and the Penn Law Association for Law and the Arts, will be held March 30 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Panelists will include Janet Fries, of counsel in Drinker Biddle’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, Jo Backer Laird, of counsel at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights of the United States from 1985 to 1994. “This distinguished panel will discuss the history of artists’ resale royalty rights in the United States and abroad, and assess proposed federal legislation now circulating on Capitol Hill” explains Lehmann. “The topic of droit de suite – one of the moral rights recognized in many countries – has particular relevance in light of the European harmonization of copyright laws, and the twenty-year anniversary of the Visual Artists’ Rights Act here in the United States.” For more information, contact Walter G. Lehmann at 717-397-3210 or walt@lehmannstrobel.com.

“ART AND THE LAW” CLASS AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

This fall, the Museum & Society program at Johns Hopkins University will offer a course entitled “Art and the Law”. The course will be designed and taught by Walter G. Lehmann, managing partner of the art and entertainment law firm Lehmann Strobel PC. Lehmann is a practicing museum lawyer and has a Masters in Museum Studies from George Washington University. The course will examine the ways in which art and the law intersect from a variety of perspectives including intellectual property, cultural appropriation and freedom of expression. “I’m looking forward to having an in-depth discussion with students from a variety of academic backgrounds about how the artistic process is shaped by legal principals and vice versa” says Lehmann. For more information about JHU’s Museums and Society program, visit http://krieger.jhu.edu/museums/.