North Dakota (ND) Entertainment Law CLE Course Catalog

The panel will discuss impacts of recent copyright case law on technology and art.

This CLE will discuss applications of non-fungible tokens to competitive video games including: why and how they may be used, what benefits they may bring, and what intellectual property and contract issues they may create.

The ins-and-outs of Comic Book Industry, legal issues practitioners likely to encounter.

This seminar will examine the impact COVID had on leases and commercial contracts as the panel reflects on how the courts have navigated COVID and what lies ahead for drafting and case law.

Learn legal issues related to drafting contract provisions mitigating risk for outdoor music events.

Understand the many issues art law practitioners face in the "virtual art arena."

Learn how to develop an entertainment law practice.

Deepfakes can impact our relationship to information and the tools we use to work with it. How will this new horizon impact the trustworthiness of evidence and will the legal profession have the tools needed to test what they see or hear? What are the implications for the Rule of Law and our elections?

Lawyers and agents both play important roles for clients interested in publishing, marketing, selling, or licensing their works. This panel will discuss the role agents and lawyers play in negotiating deals for their clients and the legal limitations of those interactions. It will also discuss the differences between agents and lawyers and their roles in literary publishing, how and where those roles overlap, and the industry norms and regulations that guide and shape them. Additionally, it will discuss how lawyers and agents can work together to best serve their publishing clients.