Greetings!
VLA hopes that you had a great first month of 2012 and have managed to accomplish or stick with most of your New Year's resolutions!
Highlights from January included our MediateArt Training Program - which was very generously hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (thank you Orrick!) - as well as the arrival of our Spring semester legal interns from Fordham, Cardozo, St. John's, Hofstra, and Columbia law schools, our Spring Intern Blaise Niosi, and our 2012 Art and Law Residents. Welcome all! VLA would also like to extend its warm thanks to the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute for providing us with a tour of its exhibition on Joaquín Sorolla and the Glory of Spanish Dress.
This February, VLA celebrates the loveliest of holidays with a Valentine's Day Party and Trunk Show on Thursday, February 9 from 6-8PM. Please join us and several New York-based jewelry and accessory designers in the lobby below our offices at 1 East 53rd Street for an evening of heartwarming music, drinks, and fashion.
It may be chilly outside for a while longer, but VLA will be heating up the month with some great legal education courses. If you have ever considered directing your epicurean instincts in an entrepreneurial direction, VLA and the Friends of the French Culinary Institute (FCI) present a course on Starting Your Culinary Business on February 7 from 4:30-7PM. (Proceeds from this course will benefit Friends of FCI, which is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization.) On February 16 from 4-6:30PM, VLA hosts its Legal Issues in Film course (eligible for CLE credit). And on February 24 from 9AM-4:30PM, Herrick, Feinstein hosts VLA's all-day Bootcamp for Arts Professionals (eligible for CLE credit). VLA would like to thank its Bootcamp co-sponsors: Arts Council of Rockland; Dance Film Association; Dance NYC, a Branch of Dance/USA; Fractured Atlas; and Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance.
Looking toward the end of the month and beyond, VLA is co-sponsoring the Fashioning our Industry conference for NYC-based fashion, law, branding, and finance professionals on February 28 from 9AM-5PM, which includes a panel featuring VLA Executive Director Elena M. Paul, Esq. We also would like to remind interested participants that registration is now open for the Spring 2012 Law School for Visual Artists, which will be conducted in March and April.
Best,
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Three great classes this month!
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Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts & Friends of the FCI Present:
Starting Your Culinary Business
When: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 4:30 - 7pm
Where: VLA, 1 East 53rd Street, NY 10022 (Auditorium)
This workshop provides valuable information about starting a culinary business, including restaurants, bakeries, bars, and catering companies. This class will cover important issues that every start up business person needs to know including: the selection of a business entity, incorporation; financing, branding, licensing (including liquor licenses, cabaret permits, out door seating permits), taxes and regulatory compliance. Proceeds will benefit the Friends of the French Culinary Institute (FCI).
The Friends of the FCI is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable corporation that raises money for scholarships and financial aid to FCI career students based on financial need and ability to complete the program they desire. The organization was founded based on the belief that money should not stand between talented, motivated, deserving students and a first-rate culinary education.
More info here or download registration form
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Legal Issues in Film
When: Thursday, February 16, 2012
4 - 6:30pm
Where: VLA Auditorium, 1 East 53rd Street, NY, NY 10022
This class will provide an overview of the legal issues and common business arrangements used in film and television projects. In addition, option agreements for the acquisition of literary properties, distribution agreements, and a comprehensive release for reality based television programs will be discussed. We will also take a look at legal issues surrounding recent films such as Borat. Reading materials for the class will be emailed one week prior to the class.
More info hereor download registration form
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VLA's Legal & Business Bootcamp for Arts Professionals
When: Friday February 24, 2012,
9am - 4:30pm
Where: Herrick, Feinstein LLP: 2 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016 (Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be provided)
Map it!
*8.0 CLE Credits Available, Professional Practice (Transitional: 4 Professional, 2 Skills, 2 Ethics)
VLA is pleased to announce this intensive program, a modified version of VLA's Legal & Business Bootcamp for Arts Professionals, our signature educational program. This Bootcamp will cover the legal and business issues that affect individual artists of all arts disciplines and individual within arts institutions. Sessions will include: Intellectual Property; Contract Essentials and Negotiation Skills; For-Profit, Non-Profit, Fiscal Sponsorship Models; Considerations for Documentary and Fact-Based Projects
More info here or download registration form
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Law School for Visual Artists 2012
Classes will take place the following Tuesdays:
March 20
March 27
April 3
April 10
April 17
All classes: 4 - 6:30 pm
VLA Auditorium (1 East 53rd Street, 6th floor, NY)
Please note we now have registration fees for this class.
Read what past students say about the course.
Registration Guidelines
This class series is open to visual artists only, and includes class materials.
5-Class Registration Fees:
$125 Artists VLA-members
$175 Artists non-members
$100 Students/All You Can Learn Pass (VLA)
The 5-class registration fee includes the following:
* 5-classes (2hrs each; 30 min Q & A)
* One free Legal Clinic Meeting with an attorney
* Class materials
* 50% discount on a one-year VLA Artist Membership (see benefits)
You can also register for a single Tuesday session for $50 each.
To view the complete schedule and topics for each class click here.
Please note: Space is very limited; register now!
To register for this lecture series, please download this registration form and e-mail, fax or mail to:
Luis Nieto Dickens
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
One East 53rd Street, Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10022
lndickens@vlany.org
Fax: 212.752.6575
For any questions please contact Luis Nieto Dickens at lndickens@vlany.org.
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Upcoming Classes & Workshops
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For a list of classes, please view our complete calendar:
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Donate to VLA
VLA has seen an increase in demand for pro bono legal services, in-house consultations, legal clinics, and educational programming, and we expect 2012 to be even more demanding. Would you like to support more VLA legal services and educational programming? In 2011, your support will make possible:
- More legal services to low-income artists
- More legal services to arts nonprofit organizations
- More educational programming
- More scholarship programs
- More outreach programming
- Maintaining lower fees for legal services and educational programming
- More discounts on legal books for artists
Donations of any size will have a positive impact on our ability to provide vital services for artists and the arts community. $5, $10, $25, or $75 will help. In fact, if you donate more than $100 we will send you a VLA Supporter Box. What's in a VLA Supporter Box? Click here
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Library and Bookstore VLA has a small but in-depth book library containing a wealth of materials and resources for artists, arts organizations, and legal professionals. Our books and materials cover diverse areas such as nonprofits, fiscal sponsorships, visual art, music, theater, dance, writing, film, internet, and digital media, all in relation to intellectual property, contracts, licensing, legal entities, free speech, employment law, and grant writing. Access to VLA's library is free and is open to the public Monday through Friday, 12 to 6pm.
Along with providing individuals and organizations with access to the VLA's Library, VLA makes available a wide variety of books for all arts disciplines and organizations. For a list of our publications and books available for sale, please visit our list. For book prices and shipping fees, please contact VLA at our Art Law Line at 212.319.2787, x1. |
About VLA Since 1969, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has been the leading provider of pro bono legal services and mediation, as well as educational programs, publications, and advocacy to the arts community in the New York area and beyond. As the first arts-related legal aid organization, VLA is the model for similar organizations around the world.
VLA is supported in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and through generous gifts from law firms, corporations, foundations and individuals.
Our Supporters
VLA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal service organization supported in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and through generous gifts from corporations, foundations and individuals. View a full list of foundation and government supporters here; to view a full list of law firm and corporate supporters, click here.
  
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Sponsored by VLA:
Fashioning Our Industry Conference
Tuesday, Feb. 28th
9am to 5pm
New York Yale Club
Fashioning Our Industry's inaugural conference will discuss solutions for redefining and sustaining this industry that provides thousands of jobs in art, design, and technology and gives so much back through philanthropy. The 2012 conference takes place on Tuesday, Feb. 28th from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the New York Yale Club.VLA Members get a discount! More info and how to register here!
Sponsored by VLA: NARM - the Music Business Association
From SOPA to Bankruptcy and Copyright Assets to Licensing to Antitrust Thursday, March 1, 2012 1 - 5:30pm Offices of Greenberg Traurig Metlife Building, 200 Park Avenue, 15th Floor All the Industry's Most Pressing Legal Issues Will Be Debated Here LIVE! Be sure to be a participant in the hottest entertainment and law debate so far this year. Register by February 10 to receive $50 off Rates before discount are $179 for members and $229 for non-members. VLA Members, use $50 discount coupon code: CLE-nyvla50 More info and how to register here!
YAM's VLA's Young Associate Membership (YAM) is a membership category exclusively for young lawyers and arts professionals generally in their 1st - 4th years of practice and career. Learn more about YAM's here!
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