Event Summary

Session #1: Copyright/Trademark Protection & Use

Presentation and Q & A with John D. Mason.

This session covers:

• Copyright Registration

• Fair Use

• Works Made For Hire

• Trademark

• Rights Management

• Creative Commons

• Licensing

• Protecting your creations

John D. Mason of Copyright Counselors, LLC is an art, entertainment and intellectual property attorney, and literary agent. He is based in the Washington DC/Maryland area. His practice focuses on copyright and trademark transactional matters, litigation, publishing and media issues, contracts, and commercial matters. He works with writers, artists, filmmakers and people and companies in creative industries to protect, promote and exploit their work. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Mason is adjunct faculty teaching Entertainment Law at UDC Law School, teaching Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law at George Washington University School of Law, past adjunct teaching Art and the Law at George Mason University, Board President of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, and past Advisory Board member of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.

His email is jmason@copyrightcounselors.com and his firm website is www.copyrightcounselors.com.

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The series is free for WALA members and *$20 per workshop for non-members.

*Reduced rate tickets available.

WALA programs and activities are sponsored in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

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Event Details

• Date

  September 19, 2023

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• Time

  11:00am - 1:00pm

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• Venue

  Online