Upcoming CITL events

The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) would like to remind everyone of upcoming seminars, workshops, and other events during this Spring 2017 semester. Please visit http://citl.lehigh.edu/events for additional details and to see a complete list of upcoming events and register to attend. We have the following workshops scheduled for next week:

CITL: Blogging in Academia (rescheduled)

Tuesday, April 4, 12:00 pm

Join us for a workshop on blogging in academia. With Lehigh's support of WordPress, it is easier than ever to build your own space to share your research, your teaching or comment on current affairs. This workshop will touch briefly on technical issues and then focus primarily on crafting blog entries and promoting your content.

CITL/MDHI: Knowing Your Rights: Legal Fundamentals for Documentary Filmmakers

Friday, April 14, 10:00 am

Both beginning and more experienced documentary filmmakers have misconceptions about the impact of copyright and other laws on their projects. Knowing Your Rights: Legal Fundamentals for Documentary Filmmakers is designed to enable non-lawyers to understand how various relevant areas of law—including copyright, trademark, defamation, and privacy/publicity rights—affect their projects. Karen Shatzkin has extensive experience making these complex issues comprehensible to her creative clients, including a wide array of documentary filmmakers.

This day-long seminar will enable participants to be more self-sufficient in understanding their rights and the limitations on those rights. They will learn about circumstances that really require a lawyer's involvement (and those that don't). Participants also will gain knowledge that will empower them to work with lawyers, rather than be passive recipients of legal advice. Ms. Shatzkin will discuss copyright doctrines, such as "de minimus" and fair use; the portrayal of trademarks; rules concerning film titles; privacy/publicity rights; and doctrines such as trespass and misrepresentation that often trip up filmmakers. Using important court decisions and examples from her clients' films, she will discuss how the laws apply to documentary projects and provide an understanding of what practical considerations may intervene.

Karen Shatzkin is a member of the New York law firm of Shatzkin & Mayer, P.C., Karen Shatzkin has worked on legal issues affecting documentary films for more than 30 years, primarily on behalf of independent filmmakers and independent production companies. She has vetted films pre-release; negotiated contracts with creative personnel, distributors, studios, and networks; and responded to claims against filmmakers. Her clients run the gamut from well-established, award-winning documentarians to first-time filmmakers.

Ms. Shatzkin, a graduate of Columbia Law School, has an active litigation practice in addition to her transactional work for filmmakers and other creative clients. An adjunct faculty member of Columbia Law School, she teaches a trial practice seminar.