West Virginia (WV) Copyright Law CLE Course Catalog

Unlock the secrets to safeguarding your game’s intellectual property with insights from an industry expert. Discover essential strategies for creating a robust IP framework that protects your creative vision and fuels future success.

In this fun and interesting program, explore social media and how the law regulates the social media sites. This program explores the two major pillars of immunity form the 1990’s that facilitated social media growth, the immunity from state tort liability for defamation and state torts, and the copyright immunity for infringement on their sites.

This program will give you a great overview of copyright law fundamentals, the exclusive rights, infringement, and fair use, all while allowing you to better understand what copyright law is doing in the background of our live music events from the moment we arrive to the performance to our post-show uploading of our phone footage.

In this CLE program, intellectual property expert Steven D. Lustig (Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP) will provide an in-depth discussion about the fundamental principles of copyright law. He will explore current issues faced in copyright protection and the evolving role of technology in shaping copyright law and how businesses can adapt.

Experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi discusses these issues in a fun and engaging program that will make you a legal expert on tattoos before the ink is dry on your new creation.

Experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi reveals these traps for the unwary, including moral rights in certain art works, statutory damages for copyright infringement, and lack of copyright ownership for works created by independent contractors and trademark counterfeiting mistakes, and what steps you can take to protect your clients from these risks.

In the latest installment of “The Curious Lawyer” series, Peter Afrasiabi answers these and other key questions that surround the use of generative artificial intelligence tools to create deepfakes.

How well do you know the requirements for use of a work to qualify as “fair use” under copyright law? Experienced intellectual property litigator Peter Afrasiabi explains the rules in clear terms – for copyright aficionados and novices alike – while engaging in a lively discussion of key cases.

Join us to examine the convoluted litigation history that underlies this immensely popular, global motion picture franchise. Peter chronicles the key legal disputes that plagued the franchise for much of its storied history, and discusses the interesting and complex legal issues those disputes raised.