Join Us November 20 - 2015 Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute in NYC

8th Annual Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute

Friday, November 20, 2014

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM      Welcome  and Introduction by Program Chairs

Hon. Stephen Crane (Ret.), JAMS, Raymond Dowd, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP; Judd Grossman,   Grossman LLP, Chair, NYCLA's Art Law Committee

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM       Panel 1: Challenges Faced by Claimants Navigating the World of

                         Holocaust Art Restitution

Moderator: Hon. Stephen Crane (Ret.), JAMS,

Clarence Epstein, Ph.D., Senior Director, Urban and Cultural Affairs, Concordia University

Thomas R. Kline, Andrews Kurth LLP

Elizabeth Rynecki, Director/Producer/Writer, Chasing Portraits

Connie Walsh, Holocaust Claims Processing Office, NYS  Dept. of Financial Services

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM     BREAK

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM    Panel 2: Wallflowers -- Equal Pay, Equal Wall Space?

Moderator: Hon.  Barbara Jaffe, NYS Supreme Court

 Frieda Kahlo, Guerrilla Girls

 Jonathan Meyers, Meyers Fried-Grodin LLP    

 Elizabeth Sackler, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum           

12:00 PM – 12:35 PM     Overview: What’s New in Art Law

Judd Grossman,   Grossman LLP, Chair, NYCLA's Art Law Committee

12:35 PM – 1:30 PM        Lunch/Lunchtime Program

A Tribute to Charles Goldstein and His Legacy as an Advocate for Recovering Holocaust Looted Art

Speakers: Lawrence M. Kaye and Howard N. Spiegler, Herrick Feinstein LLP

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM           Keynote Panel: Mediation And The Art of Bankruptcy

                                                Moderator: Hon. Loretta Preska, Chief Judge, SDNY
                                                Hon. Gerald Rosen, Chief Judge, ED Michigan 

                 Alfredo R. Pérez, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM          BREAK

2:45 PM –3:45 PM            Panel 3:   Who’s Listening? Amicus Briefs in Art Law Cases

Moderator: Hon. Robert Katzmann, Chief Judge, 2d Circuit

Ed Gaffney, Jr., Valparaiso University

Virginia Rutledge, Esq.

3:45 PM – 4:45 PM          Panel 4:  Art and Charitable Foundation Governance: The Cautionary

Tale of the National Arts Club

Moderator: Hon. Frederic Block, EDNY

Kevin P. Foley, Condon O'Meara McGinty & Donnelly LLP

Chris Poe,  President, National Arts Club Board of Governors

Roland Riopelle, Sercarz & Riopelle, LLP

4:45 PM –5:00 PM            Closing Remarks/Questions and Answers

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Copyright Law - Eighth Circuit: Will Scorched Earth Copyright Owner Be Burned By Infringer's Bankruptcy?

Copyrights and Bankruptcy,  Non-Dischargeability of Copyright Infringement Judgment in Bankruptcy, Attorneys Fees, Statutory Damages, Effect of Filing Proof of Claim on Right to Jury Trial

Pearson Education, Inc. v. Almgren, 685 F.3d 691 (8^th Cir. July 13, 2012).  MBA student finds “solution” books to his textbooks on the internet.  After using them, has the bright idea of posing as a professor to obtain more solutions books from Plaintiff publisher.  Obtains the books and sells them on a website earning $5,000.  Publisher, without sending cease and desist letter, sues in New York and engages in scorched earth litigation.  MBA student declares bankruptcy.  Publisher files proof of claim.  Publisher then seeks jury trial on statutory damages and attorneys fees.  Court awards minimum statutory damages and denies attorneys fees.  Statutory damages are declared nondischargeable in bankruptcy.  As a matter of first impression: because bankruptcy is a court of equity, Publisher waived right to a jury trial by filing a proof of claim.  Denial of attorneys fees in toto affirmed.  Publisher could probably have stopped the activity with a cease and desist letter.  Publisher’s “spare no expenses” litigation tactics unreasonable.

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