Joel Katz is a Founding Shareholder with the firm of Greenberg Traurig. He is a noted authority on entertainment law, and has represented some of the best-selling recording artists of the last thirty years, as well as several Fortune 500 companies.
In this plenary panel discussion presented at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association, panelists Lon Sobel, Ken Abdo, Jay Cooper, David Given, Joel Katz, David Knochemsen, Ed Pearson and Mike Rudell discuss how the practice of entertainment law has evolved over the last half-century, from a few lonely practitioners doing an ill-defined set of tasks to a large and sprawling body of jurisprudence, legal theory, and competing orthodoxies.
In this segment of a plenary session of the American Bar Assocation’s 2008 Entertainment & Sports Forum, focusing on the past, present and future of entertainment law, the panelists discuss what entertainment lawyers need to understand about today’s business, and whether business knowledge has become more important than knowledge of the law. They also offer advice to anyone who wishes to become an entertainment lawyer – especially how dangerous and difficult some statutes can be to interpret, and what the penalties are for not doing your homework when making deals and performing due diligence.
In this segment of a plenary session of the American Bar Assocation’s 2008 Entertainment & Sports Forum, focusing on the past, present and future of entertainment law, the panelists explain how the legal underpinnings of the entertainment industry are likely to evolve over the coming years, and how this relates to cultural and technological changes in how music, film, television and other media are distributed and consumed.
In this section, you can watch a video from the making of Jason Crosby's album, Four Chords and Seven Notes Ago. In this clip the song Shout Chorus is recorded.
