Dan Lewis
Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel, Wikia, Inc.

Daniel N. Lewis is an entrepreneur and Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel of Wikia, Inc. Daniel co-founded ArmchairGM, a sports website, which Wikia, Inc. acquired in January 2007. Daniel is a former sports blogger and had several blogs of his own before the “blogosphere” truly existed. Prior to Wikia, Daniel was an associate in the Labor and Employment department at Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., in Manhattan and a freelance sports writer. Daniel earned his Juris Doctorate from Benjamin N.Cardozo School of Law, where he served as an Editor of the Cardozo Law Review. Daniel graduated from Tufts University in 2000 with a BA in Economics.

Sessions

1:00pm Wednesday, 02/13/2008

Contracts and Legal Issues for Publishers in a Digital Age

Tutorial Astor Ballroom

Roberta Cairney (Roberta Cairney Law Offices), Edward Colleran (Copyright Clearance Center), Andrew Bridges (Winston & Strawn, LLP), William S. Strong (Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP), Maria A. Danzilo (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), Dan Lewis (Wikia, Inc. )

This tutorial will address some of the toughest legal issues facing publishers today. A panel of prominent attorneys will help you understand and navigate topics and issues including user-generated content, fair-use, satire, piracy, enforcement, copyright, licensing, contracts, and privacy issues. Read more.