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Law Office of Alan Korn Law Office of Alan Korn
1840 Woolsey Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
phone: (510) 548-7300
fax: (510) 540-4821
aakorn@igc.org

The Law Office of Alan Korn is a law practice emphasizing art, entertainment, intellectual property and business law. Representative Clients.

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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?”

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