INBLF Officers
INBLF Officers
Steven Spielvogel, Esq., (President) (University of Pennsylvania, B.A., summa cum laude with distinction, J.D.; law clerk to the Honorable Richard Owen, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, law clerk to the Honorable William J. Holloway, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; former litigator at Sullivan Cromwell on Wall Street; has taught or presented lectures on numerous subjects at several of North America's most prestigious law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania; former Scholar-in-Residence, Centre for Innovation Law & Policy at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; former Co-Chairman, Business & Technology Law Committee, LISTnet (New York's largest technology organization); Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Business Law & Technology; Chairman, Board of Directors, Lawyers For Humanity Charitable Foundation, Inc.; President and Chairman, Board of Directors, International Network of Boutique Law Firms; President, International Association of Networks; former Chairman and current Member, Board of Directors, Amphibian Productions, Inc. (a non-profit theater company).
Edward R. Gallion, Esq. (Treasurer) (Northwestern University, B.A., Georgetown Law Center, J.D., Georgetown Law Review, former Legislative Director for the Honorable Gerald B.H. Solomon, U.S. House of Representatives (Chairman, House Rules Committee), Law Clerk to the Honorable Roger Miner (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit), former litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell on Wall Street, Vice President of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms; Member of the Nassau County Bar Association's Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation and Federal Courts Committees; Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York)
Arnie Lutzker, Esq. (Secretary) (CCNY, B.A. magna cum laude; Harvard Law School, J.D. cum laude; Legislative assistant, Cong. Jonathan B. Bingham (D-NY) 1971-72; General Counsel, Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, 1987-present; Board Member, Washington DC International Filmfest, 2000-present; Counsel to touring exhibitions Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures of the Russian Imperial Court (1996-1998), Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures of the Topkapi (2000-2001); President, Cultural Treasures Foundation (organizing: Treasures of Catherine the Great and Her Palace: The Amber Room and Other Mysteries); Special Counsel to Directors Guild of America (1986-1998), Artists Rights Foundation and The Film Foundation (1991-present), and The Johnson Group; producer of Paper Clips (Miramax Release, 2004); Author - Books: Content Rights for Creative Professionals: Copyrights and Trademarks in a Digital Age (Focal Press, 2002) (translated into Russian, 2005); Copyright & Trademarks for Media Professionals (Focal Press, 1997); Co-author: Artists, Technology & the Ownership of Creative Content (The Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications, 2003); Growing Pains: Adapting Copyright for Libraries, Education, and Society (Rothman, 1997); Legal Problems in Broadcasting (Great Plains University Press, 1974); Videos - Copyright Compliance Series For Educators (Taylor Communications 2006); Copyrights: The Internet, Multimedia and the Law (Taylor Communications, 1997); Articles (partial list) "Altering the Contours of Copyright - The DMCA and the Unanswered Questions of Paramount Pictures Corp. v. 321 Studios," 21 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 561 (March, 2005); "Trademarks and the Information Superhighway," Trademark World, Sept. 1995; "Overview of Copyright Licensing & the Internet," Licensing Journal (Aug. 2000); selected as Washington DC "Super Lawyer"; assigned Martindale Hubbell's highest AV rating)
