9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (with an hour break for lunch) — A special joint Continuing Professional Education Program co-sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Illinois State Bar Association. The morning program will be a potpourri of contract topics with speakers provided by the ISBA, including Jeffrey Liss, who also is a member of the SFWA Contracts Committee. The afternoon program will cover its topics as a soup-to-nuts analysis of a typical contract for a novel, section by section, and will be led by Charles Petit, a member of SFWA's Contracts Committee, and will include Sean P. Fodera. The program is aimed at lawyers who don’t do this sort of thing very often and SF authors who don’t do it often enough (and who may not be able to afford a lawyer but need to know how to recognize the issues).
The separate registration fee for SFWA members is $25 (but is $100-115 for ISBA members).
Updated 2/1/2005
9:00-9:05 — Introduction (Daniel Kegan)
9:05-9:15 — The Intellectual Property Landscape: Trademarks (Stephen G. Kehoe) and Patents & Copyrights (Eugene F. Friedman)
9:15-9:30 — Authorship and Ownership (Eugene F. Friedman)
9:30-9:45 — Derivatives, Compilations, C, Joint Works (Eugene F.. Friedman)
9:45-9:55 — Fair Use (Eugene F. Friedman)
10:00-10:10 — Multi-Media — Graphics, Sounds, AudioVisuals (Kristen L. Lingren)
10:10-10:20 — Registration v. Unregistered Rights (Kristen L. Lingren)
10:20-10:30 — Licenses, Transfers, and Permissions (Aaron W. Brooks)
10:30-10:45 — Contracts & Forms (Jeffrey G. Liss)
10:45-10:50 — Royalties (TBD)
10:50-10:55 — Break
10:55-11:05 — Technology (Aaron W. Brooks)
11:05-11:15 — Technological Resources (Aaron W. Brooks)
11:20-11:30 — Wealth Creation (Daniel Kegan)
11:30-11:45 — Infringement Claims and Negotiations (Steven L. Baron)
11:45-11:55 — Lawsuits and Alternative Dispute Resolution (Steven L. Baron)
11:55-12:05 — Conflicts and Ethics (Eugene F. Friedman)
12:05-12:25 — Questions and Answers (the Panel)
12:25-12:30 — Morning Conclusion (Daniel Kegan)
A special welcoming event, a pizza party with an additional charge of $15. This event will be hosted by local SFWA members. Attending will be representatives from the four major Chicago-area science fiction conventions, who, it is hoped, will be looking for new SWFAns to invite as speakers. There also may be a special guest speaker.
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