Date:  04/03/2008

Time:   9:00 am - 11:00 am

Location:   Hyatt Regency Century Plaza 2025 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067

Speakers:   Kelly Charles Crabb, Don Stirling

Contact:   Stefanie Knapp

Contact Phone:  213.892.5272

Description:  

Please join us on Thursday, April 3 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., for a breakfast briefing on what you can learn from our experience with the Olympics, including the following discussion points:

• Securing international intellectual property rights in connection with the marketing and promotion of a large event, like the Olympics
• Exploiting sponsorship rights in connection with a large event
• Licensing rights to make merchandise based on intellectual property rights in connection with a large event
• Exploiting broadcasting rights to a large event
• Selling tickets to a large event
• Creating a legally viable chain of title for the intellectual property elements (such as dramatic elements, designs, performances, choreography and music) of any large entertainment event
• Dealing with the legal aspects of logistics in connection with a large event

Speakers Include:

Kelly Crabb, partner in the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster and the co-chair of the firm’s team for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Don Stirling, Managing Partner, Rainmaker Sports and Entertainment; former President and CEO of the Massachusetts Sports & Film Commission; and former Managing Director of Sales and Marketing for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games