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Office of Alan Korn 1840 Woolsey Street Berkeley, CA 94703 phone: (510) 548-7300 fax: (510) 540-4821 aakorn@igc.org |
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The Law Office of Alan Korn is a law practice emphasizing art, entertainment, intellectual property and business law. Representative Clients. News Congratulations to clients Sam Green and Warner Jepson. Both have videos in the "California Video" exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit will run through June 8th, 2008. More information. Client Quartet San Francisco has received a second-consecutive nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album, Whirled Chamber Music; 50th Annual GRAMMYŠ Awards, February 10, 2008. Read the press release (PDF format). Alan
Korn's law review article, "Issues
Facing Legal Practitioners in Measuring Substantiality of Contemporary
Musical Expression," has been published in the
Spring 2007 issue of the John Marshall Law School Review of
Intellectual Property Law. The article highlights some of
the legal issues facing modern composers of jazz, avant-garde,
hip-hop, electronica and world music, and the current split among
the U.S. Circuit Courts in how to measure the substantiality of
those works. On January 26, 2007, Alan was the featured speaker at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Mid-Winter Institute in New Orleans. The plenary panel, “Copyright in Jazz (and Other Improvisatory Arts),” addressed the topic “Newton v. Diamond: Judicial Improvisation?” |