Ray Beckerman PC

Upcoming:

February, 2009. Panel discussion, "Music industry drops effort to sue song swappers", New York Law School, Media, Entertainment, Sports Law Association.

Recent:

Talks by Ray at Columbia University School of Law, Society for Law, Science & Technology and Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Society, New York, NY, November 2008, St. John's University School of Law, Entertainment, Arts, Sports Law Society, October 2008, and New York University, Prof. Aram Sinnreich's class,"Copyright, Culture, and Commerce", October 2008..

Panel discussion, "Media and Technology Policy-Making in the 21^st Century", Producers Guild of America New Media Council East, and Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School, New York, NY, November 2008.

Articles by Ray:

"Content Holders vs. The Web: 2008 US Copyright Law Victories Point to Robust Internet". Journal of Internet Law, January 2009 edition.

"In 'Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v RDR Books', a US District Judge rejects a 'fair use' defence put forward for use of 'Harry Potter' copyrights for the publishing of a reference guide", E-Commerce Law Reports, 3 October 2008.

  "Large Recording Companies v. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigation". Published in Summer 2008 edtion of The Judges' Journal, the quarterly publication of the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association.  The article appeared in Part 1 of The Judges Journals' 2-part series, "Access to Justice". (Reprinted with Permission of the American Bar Association)