BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Kurt Wimmer is a partner concentrating on media law and intelle ctual property at the Washington\, D.C.\, firm of Covington &\; Burling ton LLP\, which represents companies in the digital media\, television\, m obile\, publication and new technology sectors. His work includes intellec tual property protection and strategy\; content liability and newsgatherin g advice and litigation\; television and digital content licensing transac tions\; privacy and data protection\; and international law and public pol icy representation of companies and associations before the U.S. Congress\ , Federal Communications Commission and international governmental entitie s. He was senior vice president and general counsel of Gannett Co. Inc. fr om 2006-09 and managing partner of Covington’s London office from 2000-03. Wimmer’s clients have included Microsoft\, Yahoo!\, The Washington Post C o.\, Newsweek\, National Geographic and Gannett. He has advised journalist s\, associations and legislators in more than two dozen countries concerni ng new media laws\, protection of journalists and freedom of information. Wimmer is on the boards of the Media Law Resource Center\, The Media Insti tute\, the ABA Forum on Communications Law and the Citizens Media Law Proj ect of the Berkman Center for Internet &\; Society at Harvard Universit y.The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary\, Politics and the Media (I JPM) at Syracuse University has announced its Spring 2010 lecture series o n “Law\, Politics and the Media.”Today’s American judicial system operates in a complex environment of legal principle\, political pressure and medi a coverage. The series provides an introduction to the court system and it s environment as a single\, integrated subject of study and features speak ers from a variety of legal\, political and media backgrounds\, including practicing lawyers\, published authors\, leading scholars and court resear chers. “Law\, Politics and the Media” lectures are free and open to the pu blic. They take place from 3:50–5:10 p.m. in Room 204 of the Syracuse Univ ersity College of Law. Paid parking is available in SU pay lots.The lectur e series is part of an interdisciplinary course on law\, politics and the media cross-listed between the College of Law\, the S.I. Newhouse School o f Public Communications and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public A ffairs. The course is taught by SU professors Keith Bybee (IJPM director) and Roy Gutterman (IJPM associate director)\, and funded through support f rom the John Ben Snow Foundation and the Carnegie Corp. of New York. \ ; DTEND:20100222T221500Z DTSTAMP:20260415T073220Z DTSTART:20100222T204500Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:�Legal Issues Underlying Efforts to Create a New Future for Media� UID:RFCALITEM639118207402720023 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Kurt Wimmer is a partner concentrating on medi a law and intellectual property at the Washington\, D.C.\, firm of Covingt on &\; Burlington LLP\, which represents companies in the digital media \, television\, mobile\, publication and new technology sectors. His work includes intellectual property protection and strategy\; content liability and newsgathering advice and litigation\; television and digital content licensing transactions\; privacy and data protection\; and international l aw and public policy representation of companies and associations before t he U.S. Congress\, Federal Communications Commission and international gov ernmental entities. He was senior vice president and general counsel of Ga nnett Co. Inc. from 2006-09 and managing partner of Covington’s London off ice from 2000-03. Wimmer’s clients have included Microsoft\, Yahoo!\, The Washington Post Co.\, Newsweek\, National Geographic and Gannett. He has a dvised journalists\, associations and legislators in more than two dozen c ountries concerning new media laws\, protection of journalists and freedom of information. Wimmer is on the boards of the Media Law Resource Center\ , The Media Institute\, the ABA Forum on Communications Law and the Citize ns Media Law Project of the Berkman Center for Internet &\; Society at Harvard University.The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary\, Politics and the Media (IJPM) at Syracuse University has announced its Spring 2010 lecture series on “Law\, Politics and the Media.”Today’s American judicia l system operates in a complex environment of legal principle\, political pressure and media coverage. The series provides an introduction to the co urt system and its environment as a single\, integrated subject of study a nd features speakers from a variety of legal\, political and media backgro unds\, including practicing lawyers\, published authors\, leading scholars and court researchers. “Law\, Politics and the Media” lectures are free a nd open to the public. They take place from 3:50–5:10 p.m. in Room 204 of the Syracuse University College of Law. Paid parking is available in SU pa y lots.The lecture series is part of an interdisciplinary course on law\, politics and the media cross-listed between the College of Law\, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Maxwell School of Citizen ship and Public Affairs. The course is taught by SU professors Keith Bybee (IJPM director) and Roy Gutterman (IJPM associate director)\, and funded through support from the John Ben Snow Foundation and the Carnegie Corp. o f New York. \; END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR