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STROBEL TO LEAD NATIONAL COMMUNITY MEDIA ORGANIZATION

Sylvia Strobel has been named the new Executive Director for the Alliance for Community Media (ACM), effective August 1st. The ACM is a national, nonprofit membership organization founded in 1976, and represents over 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media centers throughout the country. It also represents the interests of millions of people who use PEG access to communicate with their memberships and the community as a whole. Sylvia will remain as “of counsel” to Lehmann Strobel. For more information about ACM, visit their website at http://www.alliancecm.org or contact Sylvia Strobel at sylvia@lehmannstrobel.com.

LEHMANN TO PRESENT AT NATIONAL MUSEUM CONFERENCE

Walter G. Lehmann will team up with Dr. Gary Vikan, Director of the Walters Art Museum, to lead a discussion on managing museum intellectual property assets at the American Association of Museums annual conference, to be held in Los Angeles May 23-26. The program, titled “Conducting a Museum Intellectual Property Audit” will be featured as part of the AAM’s “Idea Lounge” – a series of informal discussions on museum management practices. Lehmann and Vikan will discuss a museum-wide assessment of content-creation and intellectual property management practices at the Walters Art Museum which Lehmann refers to as a museum intellectual property audit, or “MIPA.” “The MIPA process, which involves a comprehensive review of a museum’s creative content management practices, furthers the museum’s brand, stewardship and best practices” explains Lehmann. Lehmann performed the assessment last fall as part of a Masters program in museum studies at George Washington University. The findings and recommendations included in Lehmann’s report are currently being reviewed and implemented by Walters Art Museum board and staff. A detailed description of the MIPA process is available by clicking here. For more information about the AAM Idea Lounge, visit their website. To learn about Lehmann Strobel’s Museum Law practice, visit http://www.lehmannstrobel.com/museums.html or contact Walter G. Lehmann at walt@lehmannstrobel.com.

ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MEDIA TO HOST GRACIES AWARDS

After six months as Interim President of the Alliance for Women in Media (formerly American Women in Radio and Television) while the organization conducted a national search for a new president, Sylvia Strobel was re-elected to a second term as Chair of the Alliance’s National Board of Directors. First on her agenda will be opening the 35th Annual Gracie Awards, to be held May 25-26 in Los Angeles. For more information, go to www.thegracies.org or contact Sylvia L. Strobel at Sylvia@lehmannstrobel.com.

NEW DOCUMENTERAY PRODUCTION LEGAL COUNSEL REQUIREMENTS

Commissioning entities including Discovery Communications are now requiring their independent producers to provide detailed information about the production-related experience of the producer’s legal counsel. The new procedures intended to insure that independent producers are using experienced production legal counsel. In a new “Producer’s Counsel Information” form Discovery independent producers must provide contact information for their legal counsel as well as details about their counsel’s areas of expertise and a list of programs that their counsel has worked on in the same or similar genres. The form must be completed for each new production. The form also requires producer’s legal counsel to disclose any potential conflicts which might affect their ability to provide legal representation to the producer. This information is being required by the company’s insurer according to a representative of Discovery’s business affairs office. Lehmann Strobel PLC has provided a full range of production-related legal services to independent producers for more than fifteen years in a wide variety of reality-based, factual and documentary genres. For more information about Lehmann Strobel PLC and our production-related legal services, please visit http://www.lehmannstrobel.com/services.html or contact Walter G. Lehmann at walt@lehmannstrobel.com.