Two years ago, UCLA School of Law’s Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law launched the Documentary Film Legal Clinic, a creative enterprise among law students, veteran media attorneys and independent filmmakers.
The rapidly evolving world of amateur athletics was the focus of the Ziffren Institute's IN-Sports panel "State of Play: College Sports Today," on Nov. 15. A standing-room-only crowd heard from NCAA Chief Legal Officer and Chief Operations Officer Donald Remy and former NCAA Division I athlete Cody McDavis '19. Doug Greenburg, partner at Latham & Watkins, served as moderator for the lively discussion.
Who owns the copyright in this movie? That song? A book upon which a movie is based? In today’s entertainment marketplace, content is king, and the answers to these questions may have million-dollar implications. On February 26, two lawyers from O’Melveny & Myers’ Century City office gave students an introduction on how to trace copyright ownership across transactions, or what those in the entertainment industry refer to as the “chain of title.”
The 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium has launched a four-week series of webinars that keep the signature tradition going during the coronavirus pandemic.
Three students in UCLA School of Law’s Documentary Film Legal Clinic won a round of applause from movie industry insiders in a packed theater at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, where they attended the premiere of The Cost of Silence, a documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
UCLA School of Law students Christopher Chiang ’20 and Graham Fenton ’20 won the top two prizes in the Recording Academy’s 22nd Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition on Jan. 24 and were honored at a number of red-carpet events during Grammy Awards week.