AF LEGAL 101: COPYRIGHT PANEL FOR ARTISTS
Knowing your rights as an Artistic Creator
The Artists Forum (AF), a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization that fosters networking, collaboration, exposure, information exchange and critical dialogue among artists, proudly presents its new legal symposium for artists.
EVENT PANELISTS
Betsy Dale, Esq.: Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Christopher J.P. Mitchell, Esq.: The Law Offices of Christopher J.P. Mitchell,PLLC
EVENT TOPICS
Critical copyright issues surrounding artists in the fields of music, dance, writing, and visual arts. Networking event to follow, so bring your business cards!
SEATING IS LIMITED. RSVP ENCOURAGED: info@theartistsforum.org
LIVE MUSIC SHOWCASE
Maritri Garrett
This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.
Betsy Dale
Betsy Dale, VLA’s Staff Attorney, advises VLA clients on their arts-related legal issues including disputes, contract review, and IP issues. Betsy also develops and teaches VLA’s educational programs and generally supervises VLA’s externs and legal fellows. Prior to joining VLA, Betsy worked with law firms specializing in arts and entertainment law such as Winslett Studnicky McCormick & Bomser, LLP and Danziger, Danziger & Muro, LLP. She is a graduate of Stetson University College of Law, and holds a BFA in studio art from Florida State University.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts official site
J.P. Mitchell
Christopher Mitchell is the Principal Attorney for the Law Offices of Christopher J.P. Mitchell and is licensed to practice in both New York and Florida. Christopher’s firm focuses its practice on corporate formation, finance, intellectual property, and business strategy for existing and emerging businesses, startups, entrepreneurs and creative artists. Christopher has represented creative artists within the entertainment industry handling various transactional matters in film, music, publishing, and television.
Christopher studied at SouthWestern University School of Law’s Entertainment and Media Law Institute in Los Angeles, California and received his Juris Doctorate from Pace Law School in New York. He has been in practice for ten years.
Christopher J.P. Mitchell official site
musical guest Maritri Garrett
There aren’t many artists who can move from one form to another and do it well. Maritri has a gift for music, learning instruments with an ease that is impossible to describe and equally impossible to forget. Maritri taught herself to play guitar several years ago and a second later was performing on stage. She picked up the cello in the summer of 2005 and in six months’ time, made her debut as a cellist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Few singers talk about stories of love, life, and loss the way Maritri can. Her poignant, bittersweet lyrics, tells “grown folks stories” in a poignant way that will break you down to the core. Maritri was destined to share her gift of music with the world. As a two-year-old in Southern California, Maritri developed her love of music when she began playing the piano under the loving and watchful eyes of her parents. Even then, it was clear that she was a born musician.
Maritri Garrett official site
Maritri Garrett on Soundcloud