Intro to the Visual Artists Rights Act
@ Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Online
Opening Thursday, February 9th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
What rights do you have as an artist? Learn about the rights granted to artists in the Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990 with Lawyers for the Creative Arts. Join the free Zoom seminar on February 9, to learn about rights of attribution, issues around the destruction or modification of art, and more with William T. McGrath of Davis McGrath LLC.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ja9MNMQdTxu6MXPFYcf-iQ
About the Speaker:
William T. McGrath, Davis McGrath LLC.
Bill McGrath has practiced intellectual property and business law since 1976. He is nationally recognized for his work in the field of copyright law, though his areas of concentration also extend to trademark and information technology law, as well as publishing law, trade secret law, and software licensing. Bill’s experience includes counseling, litigation, arbitration, and mediation. He has litigated matters at each level of the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He has also litigated matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Bill has taught graduate courses in Copyright Law and Copyright Litigation since 1990 at The John Marshall Law School, where he serves as Associate Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law. He is the author of numerous articles, including more than a dozen articles for the IP Litigator, and has provided feature content for journals including the National Law Journal and Corporate Legal Times (now Inside Counsel). He is author of two chapters on copyright law in the treatise Intellectual Property Law (IICLE 2008). Bill also lectures extensively on copyright law.
Bill is Past President of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, and has served as Chair of the Patent, Trademark & Copyright Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Copyright Society of the USA, and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. He has been named to the “Illinois Leading Lawyers” network and has been recognized as an “Illinois Super Lawyer” by the publishers of Chicago Magazine.
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