Megan Noh, Yayoi Shionoiri, Sarah Conley Odenkirk

SCOPE Art Fair, Portraits of Women in Web3, NFT and AI Regulation, Miami, December 6, 2023.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

•       Establishing New Paradigms Through Contracts, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2023. https://brooklynrail.org/2023/09/criticspage/Establishing-New-Paradigms-Through-Contract

•       Out of Touch: How Much AI is Too Much (From a Copyright Perspective), co-authored with Megan E. Noh and Yayoi Shionoiri, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. https://brooklynrail.org/2023/05/criticspage/Touch

•       You Can’t Copyright AI Art (Yet), Right Click Save, March 14, 2023. https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/you-cant-copyright-ai-art-yet

•       About Those NFTs . . . Can We Talk?, co-authored with Nancy E. Wolff, Landslide (a publication of the American Bar Association/Section of Intellectual Property Law), March/April 2023.

•       The FTX Collapse is Not The End of Crypto and Fine Art NFTs, ArtNews, November 23, 2022. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ftx-crypto-collapse-nfts-art-1234647547/

•       GM! Time to Wake Up and Address Copyright and Other Legal Issues Impacting Visual Art NFTs, co-authored with Megan E. Noh and Yayoi Shionoiri, Columbia Journal or Law & the Arts, Vol. 45(3) 2022. https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/lawandarts/article/view/10007

•       NFTs and the Museum Part 2:  Legal Issues for Acquisitions, https://unframed.lacma.org/2021/08/30/nfts-and-museum-part-2-legal-issues-acquisitions

•       Navigating NFTs: Considering Best Practices and Avoiding Pitfalls, https://medium.com/dmla-insights/navigating-nfts-considering-best-practices-and-avoiding-pitfalls-222a7e3c9fcd

•       Review of Noah Charney, Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves, May 2017, International Journal of Cultural Property, 24, pp 243-247.

•       A Surprisingly Interesting Book About Contracts for Artists and Other Creatives. 2014, AMMO Books, LLC.

•       Public Art in Private Development Database available from the Public Art Archive: https://explore.publicartarchive.org/papd-database/

•       The Relevance of Authenticity in the Art Market: A Survey Of Claims And A Proposed Solution, The Art and Museum Law Journal, Volume 1, Fall 2004.

•       “Funding Culture: Fundamental Structural and Philosophical Contrasts Between the US and France,” prepared for the French-American Foundation in New York, April 2003.

•       International Art Theft, Wisconsin International Law Journal, Volume 13, No. 2, Spring 1995.

SELECT SPEAKING AND PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS

•        Panelist, SCOPE Art Fair, NFT and AI Regulation, Miami, December 6, 2023.

•        Panelist, UIA World Congress Joint Session of Art Law and IP Commissions, Artificial Creativity: How to Deal with Contents Created by AI, Rome, Italy, October 27, 2023.

•        Panelist, Los Angeles County Bar Association, AI Year in Review, September 28, 2023.

•        Speaker, USPTO Global Intellectual Property Academy and the ASEAN Intellectual Property Academy, Workshop on Developments in Copyright Law and Enforcement, Bangkok, Thailand, September 15, 2023.

•        Panelist, Christie’s Art + Tech Summit 2023, Digital Evolution in the Financial Markets, New York, NY, July 20, 2023.

•        Presenter, Gimmick or Grail: How AI is Changing the Art World, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, July 17, 2023.

•        Panelist, Legal Issues in Museum Administration Conference, NFTs: Are They Still Relevant for Museums?, Philadelphia, PA, May 17-19, 2023.

•        Panelist, Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association International Section, Unidentified Artistic Objects: A Futuristic Look into Art: AI, NFTs & Cryptocurrency - and the Metaverse, New York, NY, May 2, 2023.

•        Panelist, 8th Annual Berkeley Law Sports and Entertainment Conference, Issues in Museum Acquisitions of NFTs, Berkeley, CA, April 7, 2023.

•        Panelist, Fordham Law School Media & Entertainment Law Society, NFTs: Opportunities & Obstacles, New York, NY, February 22, 2023.

•        Panelist, Art Center College, Future Forums, Los Angeles, CA, February 22, 2023.

•        Participant, U.S. Copyright Office and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Copyright and NFT Conversation, January 31, 2023.

•        Speaker, Art Basel Miami Beach, Tezos Conversations, NFTs, DAOs, IP: Redefining Art Law, Miami Beach, FL, December 3, 2022.

•        Panelist, UIA 66th Congress, Legal Issues of the Metaverse, Dakar, Senegal, October 29, 2022.

•        Panelist, Blockchain for Social Good Conference 2022, Pulp or Fiction-Are NFTs Changing Intellectual Property Norms?, Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, CA, October 20-21, 2022.

•        Panelist, AIPPI World Congress 2022, NFTs: Blind Date?, San Francisco, CA, September 11, 2022

•        Panelist, Legal Issues in Museum Administration Conference 2022, Cryptocurrencies, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Blockchain: What are They and Why Should Museums Care?, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2022.

•        Speaker, Brooklyn Rail Conversation: Smart Contracts Aren’t, and other legal issues in blockchain and art, January 13, 2022.  https://brooklynrail.org/events/2022/01/13/smart-contracts-arent-and-other-legal-issues-in-blockchain-and-art/

•        Panelist, Kernochan Symposium 2021 – NFTs: Future of Fad?, December 9, 2021. (at 2:45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnh8hWfdYA8&t=7815s

•        Panelist, New Art Dealers Association at Miami Basel, What Every Artist Needs to Know About NFTs, Miami, FL, December 2, 2021.

•        Presenter, co-hosted by ICALA and Fulcrum Arts, NFTs WFT: Do I Need to Care About NFTs?, October 29, 2021.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Mr20jX0aQ

•        Panelist, Christie’s Art + Tech Summit 2021, The New World: Creating, Collecting, and Curating NFTs, New York, NY, July 20, 2021.

•        Moderator, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Resisting Now: Art and Policy Talk, Online, September 2020.

•        Speaker, American Planning Association, Public Art Life Cycle, Online, September 2020.

•        Speaker at International Municipal Lawyers Association Mid-Year Meeting, Public Art Life Cycle, Washington, DC April 2020 (remote).

•        Speaker at Art Law Day at Cardozo Law School, New York, NY November 2019.

•        Organizer and presenter at Seattle Art Fair, Achieving True Market Disruption in the Digital Realm, Seattle, WA August 2019.

•        Host and moderator for Art + Law in Outer Space, Los Angeles, CA July 2019.

•        Host and moderator for Using Memory & Connection to Occupy Space: Art in the Virtual and Natural Realms, Los Angeles, CA June 2019.

•        Host and moderator for A Conversation About Blockchain Technology and the Art World, Los Angeles, CA, July 2018.

•        Presenter at the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Pre-Conference, Monuments, Public Memory and the Artist, Denver, CO, June 2018.

•        Panelist for Copyright Society of the USA, Public Art as Provocateur, Midwinter Meeting, Savannah, GA, February 2018.

•        Organizer and presenter for LA as Lab: Extra Territories, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, April 2017.

•        Panelist for Copyright Society of the USA, Lawful, Awful or Artful, Midwinter Meeting, Napa Valley, CA February 2017.

•        Panelist for Intellectual Property Scholarship Symposium (Copyrights), American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Conference, Bethesda, MD, April 2016.

•        Organizer and presenter at the Art Law Executive Education Program and Conference for Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Los Angeles, January 25-31, 2015.