Watch the recording of the virtual talk by lawyer Greg Kanaan on legal issues that most commonly affect creative professionals, hosted by Pratt Alumni Engagement.

“Protecting Your Intellectual Property Online” is designed to give artists, designers, and creative business owners multiple strategies to protect, defend, and leverage your work both before and after it has been infringed after putting it online. This webinar will provide creative professionals the legal background they need to understand the pitfalls of using social media, the failures of our legal system, and the myriad ways they can side-step these problems and even come out ahead.

About the Speaker

Greg Kanaan is a Connecticut-based attorney who focuses on intellectual property, business law, and contract issues for artists, filmmakers, and creative entrepreneurs. On top of providing legal services and counsel to a wide variety of creative people, Greg regularly speaks at colleges, non-profit arts organizations and professional associations about how the law affects their artistic endeavors. Greg routinely presents on topics such as contract formation, negotiation, fair use, copyright and trademark, and business-related issues. Greg is the founder of the blog “The [Legal] Artist” and contributed a monthly column to MovieMaker Magazine titled “Cinema Law.” Before earning his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Greg received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a television producer for seven years, producing documentary programming for such networks as Discovery Channel, TLC, Court TV and A&E. Greg is licensed to practice law in Connecticut and New York.