Arts & Biz Council Panels in October

Information on estate planning, intellectual property, ethics..

Protecting Your Creativity:  Estate Planning for Artists
Tuesday, October 13 | 5:30-7:00 PM
Nashville Children’s Theatre
Speaker: Stacey Schlitz

Whether you are at the “starving artist” stage in your career, or you have already begun to accumulate creative property, assets, and wealth, this course will provide you with the basics of estate planning.  If you are entering into a life change, such as marriage, same-sex union, divorce, beginning a family, or planning for retirement, you should ensure that your creative property and creative rights, as well as your loved ones, are protected.  This seminar will discuss the basics of prenuptial agreements, wills, trusts, living wills, powers of attorney, and the additional planning that is necessary to protect your intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, grand rights, merchandising rights, musical and literary compositions, master recordings, recording contract rights, publishing contract rights, and performance rights.

Stacey Schlitz, estate planning and entertainment attorney from the law firm of Drescher & Sharp, PC, provides advice and planning to musicians, artists, and entertainers.  She graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2003 and received her LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 2004.

Seminar Fees: $10 – ABC Members; $15 – Non Members

For Attorneys Seeking CLE:  $50 – ABC Members; $75 – Non Member

Intellectual Property for Craft Artists
Saturday, October 17 | 2:00-3:30 PM
Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
Speaker: Jon Rose

In Marketing Crafts and Visual Arts it’s written that, “The real challenge for artisans and visual artists (painters, sculptors and photographers) is not just to produce and market winning new products that cater to changing consumer tastes, but also to prevent — or, if unable to prevent, to deal effectively with — unfair competition or theft of their creative ideas.” This seminar, led by attorney Jon Rose, is created specifically to help familiarize craft artists with trademark, copyright, patent and other intellectual property concepts – ultimately making the “real challenge” for artisans real easy to navigate.

Jon Rose is an attorney with Bradley, Arant, Boult & Cummings. A graduate of Harvard’s Law School, Jon focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and other commercial litigation.

Seminar Fees: $10 – ABC Members; $15 – Non Members

For Attorneys Seeking CLE: $50 – ABC Members; $75 – Non Members

Much Ado About Ethics
Wednesday, November 18 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
TPAC’s Andrew Jackson Hall

Through a unique collaboration of theater and law, the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville presents Much Ado About Ethics – a 3 hour ethics CLE with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival that employs live performance, lecture and discussion to explore the ethical issues facing modern-day attorneys. More details to come!

For more information contact VLPA@abcnashville.org or call (615) 743-3055.