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Thursday, January 31, 2002  at 6:30 p.m. 

A major development in copyright and the First Amendment is the increasing tension between 

First Amendment and Intellectual Property law.   The basic conflict involves the copyright owner's 

desire to exclude all others from the use of his or her material, versus the First Amendment value 

on widespread dissemination of material.  One of the more interesting recent areas of this has come 

in the context of parody- that is, a situation in which one author creates new materials which later are 

used in another's work without authorization.  A distinguished panel will explore this development

from a variety of perspectives.

Moderator:

Melvin Seminsky

Visiting Scholar

New York Law School

Speakers:

Joseph Beck, Partner 

Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

Atlanta, GA

Martin Garbus

Founding Partner

Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz

New York, NY

Panelists:

Martin Levin

Of Counsel

Cowan Liebowitz & Latman

New York, NY

Edward Samuels

Professor of Law

New York Law School