Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Avenue of the Arts- 2012 Symposium


The Wake Forest School of Law Journal of Business and Intellectual Property invites you to attend the annual symposium, Avenue of the Arts: Connecting Creativity, Economics and the Law, on Friday, March 23rd, from 10 AM until 3 PM.

Inspired by Winston-Salem’s reputation as the “City of the Arts & Innovation,” this year’s symposium will focus on the intersection of intellectual property law practice and the arts, with special attention on the employment of artistic ventures as engines for economic development in local communities.  In the field of the arts, intellectual property law provides artists and entrepreneurs with the tools to protect their original works, while the business-end of the industry deals with the monetization of such ventures.  By exploring the intersections of these forces at work within the arts, we can come to a better understanding as to how to facilitate artistic expression in a way that both protects creators and disseminates the work to a large audience for maximum economic benefit.  Panelists, including Wake Forest Business School alumna and North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources Linda Carlisle, Wake Forest Professors Steve Virgil, Simone Rose, and Woodrow Hood, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Arts Council President Milton Rhodes, professors Mike Mireles from the Pacific School of Law and Jeff Slattery from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Robert Rehm, will present on a variety of issues, including extension of protection for copyrighted works that have fallen in the public domain, the reach of personal liability for infringement of artistic works under the doctrines of contributory and vicarious liability, intellectual property issues related to public organizations, and programs designed to employ arts as an engine for economic development.

For more information, please visit the symposium website at http://ipjournal.law.wfu.edu/symposia/ or contact Greer Benge at bengge9@wfu.edu.  Admission is free, and interested persons can attend any portion of the panels they may choose.  The keynote address by Secretary Linda Carlisle will begin at 12:30, with a lunch served by Triad Community Kitchen.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday for this exciting introduction to the intersections of the arts, economy and intellectual property!

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