Entertainment & Media Law Seminar - Legal insights Into Digital Media & Entertainment/Media industry

Feb. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- What is a virtual world? What should one be looking out for when producing and distributing an online game? What are the pitfalls that one should be aware of when harnessing digital media for business? These are just some of the questions that come to mind when considering the content of this seminar.

With rapid growth in this are, JSK Events is proud to bring you this highly-informative and interactive seminar. This seminar seeks to demystify the legalities behind the exploitation of digital media and entertainment related products. It will provide participants with a fascinating run through of some of the difficult legal issues that have an impact on how a rights owner, an entrepreneur, a movie producer or a producer of an online game product may exploit an underlying copyright work or intellectual property in general. Seminars of such topics are few and far between and it is a rare opportunity for a participant to be provided with an understanding of legal issues in the digital media and entertainment industry.

Our seminar speaker, Steve Tan Keng Joo is a partner of Rajah & Tann and his practice is in the areas of non-contentious and contentious Information Technology, Intellectual Property, and Digital Media / Entertainment law. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer for media and telecommunications in the PLC Cross-border Media and Communications Handbook 2009/10. Steve is frequently invited to share his insights on IT/IP/Entertainment law and developments, at speaking engagements. Steve is very much involved in intellectual property and information technology related work, having dealt with a broad spectrum of non-contentious work dealing with IT outsourcing, IT tenders, software development & ASP related arrangements, software licensing, music licensing, trademark registration, to name a few, as well as contentious work such as complex IT disputes involving software development to intellectual property infringement (he has participated in raids on and prosecuted copyright infringers).

Key benefits include equipping yourself with the knowledge to harness and exploit intellectual property in the IT, entertainment/media and e-commerce industry, learning to minimise and manage risks relating to the products of the IT, entertainment/media and e-commerce industry and obtaining an appreciation of intellectual property related issues in the IT, entertainment/media and e-commerce industry, to assist you in your daily work.

This seminar will highly benefit Chief Executive Officers, Managing Directors, Marketing Directors of IT, entertainment/media, game  companies and e-commerce businesses, corporate counsels in IT, entertainment/media, game companies and e-commerce businesses, entrepreneurs, managers in IT, entertainment/media, game companies and e-commerce businesses, employees of IT, entertainment/media, game companies and e-commerce businesses and anyone wishing to have a better understanding of legal issues in the IT, entertainment/media, game and e-commerce industry.

The seminar will be held on the 5 April 2011 The Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur. For program information and registration, please contact JSK Events at 03-7665 0377 or email us at info@jskevents.com.

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