25th Annual Media and the Law Seminar
25th Annual Media and the Law Seminar

Thursday–Friday • May 3–4, 2012
InterContinental Hotel at the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo.

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  • Pam Hicks
    Program Manager
    KU Continuing Education
    1515 Saint Andrews Drive
    Lawrence, KS 66047
  • 785-864-7875
  • phicks@ku.edu


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Schedule

Thursday, May 3
4–5:00 p.m.Bonus Program (free CLE)
MEDIA INSURANCE 360
New media, new coverage issues and unpredictable losses
Friday, May 4
7:00 a.m.Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Welcome
 Russell Hickey, Chair, Media & the Law Committee, AXIS PRO, Kansas City, Mo.
Seminar Moderator: Mike Kautsch, Professor, Media, Law & Technology, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kan.
8:10 a.m. PANEL 1. Toto, We're Not In Kansas…But Google Is!
What happens when technology, big business and individual rights collide?
 Moderator: Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor for Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
Roger Fidler, Program Director for Digital Publishing, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Columbia, Mo.
Robb Heineman, CEO, Sporting KC, Kansas City, Mo.
Thomas R. Julin, Partner, Hunton & Williams, Miami, Fla.
9:10 a.m.Q & A
9:25 a.m.PANEL 2. Whose Book Is This?
Digital publishing, copyright and the future of "orphaned" literary works
 Moderator: Kate Spelman, Co-Founder/Partner, Cobalt LLP, Berkeley, Calif.
Steve Potter, Director of Libraries, Mid-Continent Public Library, Kansas City, Mo.
Edward Rosenthal, Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, New York, N.Y.
10:25 a.m.Q & A
10:35 a.m.Break
10:50 a.m.PANEL 3. Anti-Social Media
Social media and the struggle for free speech
 Moderator: Roger Myers, Partner, Bryan Cave LLP, San Francisco, Calif.
Jean Maneke, Attorney, The Maneke Law Group, Kansas, City, Mo.
Sylvester "Sly" James, Jr., Mayor, City of Kansas City, Mo.
Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, Calif.
11:50 a.m.Q & A
Noon Luncheon Address: Fredrik Gertten
1:30 p.m. PANEL 4. Winning by Spinning?
The ethics of litigating civil cases in the media
 Moderator: Bruce Johnson, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, Wash.
Karen Shatzkin, Partner, Shatzkin & Mayer PC, New York, N.Y.
John Walsh, Senior Counsel, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, New York, N.Y.
Michael Wolff, Law Professor, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., and former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice
2:30 p.m.Q & A
2:40 p.m.Break
3:00 p.m.PANEL 5. Taking the Punch from Defamation Suits
A comparative analysis of state approaches to anti-SLAPP statutes
 Moderator: Lincoln Bandlow, Partner, Lathrop & Gage, Los Angeles, Calif.
Steve Mandell, Partner, Mandell Menkes, Chicago, Ill.
Laura Prather, Partner, Sedgwick LLP, Austin, Texas
L. Lin Wood, Partner, Wood Hernacki & Evan LLC, Atlanta, Ga.
4:00 p.m.Q & A
4:10 p.m.Adjourn
5:30 p.m.Reception at The College Basketball Experience

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