NOVEMBER PUG

We have a great November PUG meeting planned for Wednesday November 5th at 6:00.

We will be having James F. Lightstone speaking with our group. He started his career in entertainment law and will be sharing his 30 years of experience in a short presentation and a Q & A session. As a group, we have had many questions about contracts and copyright and he has suggestions that will surely be able to offer great benefit to our group and our individual businesses. Check out his bio at the end of this post to learn more about him.

Location:
One Love Studio
437 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013

MAP

Take either the 1 or A, C, E line to Canal Street. Walk west along Canal Street to Hudson Street. You will be standing at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel. Cross diagonally (to the front of the Hudson Square Café) and immediately to the south you will see Desbrosses Street (this is the entrance to the Tribeca Rooftop as some of you will recognize). Walk two short blocks west along Desbrosses Street and turn left on Washington Street. 437 is the double doors 50 feet from the corner on the left side. The studio is on the second floor.

This sounds much more complicated than it actually is which is why I included the map above.
Also, for those who drive, there is ample parking throughout the neighborhood following 6:00pm

James' Bio:
James F. Lightstone - Jamie Lightstone has been in the Entertainment Industry for almost 30 years, with experience in virtually all aspects of the Industry. Most recently he co-produced “Good Vibrations,” a new musical featuring the songs of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, for Broadway.

He was President & Chief Operating Officer of Music Rights Exchange, a business-to-business music licensing marketplace for film, television, records and advertising. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, General Counsel & Secretary for Your Choice TV, LLC (a subsidiary of Discovery Communications, Inc.), where he managed the Strategic Development of the company, with Law, Business Affairs, Programming, Research and Scheduling reporting to him.

Previously, Mr. Lightstone was Vice President and Senior Counsel for Sony Music Entertainment, head of Business Affairs for SBK Entertainment World, reporting directly to its owners and responsible for day-to-day business affairs of the world's second largest music publisher, plus record production, artist management and film divisions. Prior to joining SBK's predecessor company, Mr. Lightstone was a Law and Business Affairs executive in the pay cable television business, where he was responsible for business and legal affairs for The Playboy Channel, Rainbow Programming Services, SportsChannel and Bravo.

Starting his career in the private practice of Entertainment Law, Mr. Lightstone performed a wide range of legal services for law firm specializing in intellectual property matters, including drafting of intellectual property acquisition and licensing agreements, research and drafting of opinion letters, memoranda of law and litigation documents and general client counseling. He worked on a number of notable cases, including Danton Burroughs, et al, v. MGM and Harper & Row and The Reader's Digest v. The Nation.

Mr. Lightstone has consulted for New Musicals (co-founded by Hal Prince) and was Co-Editor, THE KAMINSTEIN LEGISLATIVE HISTORY PROJECT: A Compendium and Analytical Index of Materials Leading to the Copyright Act of 1976, and Co-Author, THE NEW COPYRIGHT LAW, PUBLIC BROADCASTING, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: A RESPONSE TO "PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND THE COMPULSORY LICENSE". Mr. Lightstone is a graduate cum laude of the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, where he received the school's highest honor, the Vanderbilt Medal for Distinguished Service.