Tickets Now On Sale for Creative ABQ Symposium 11/4

Creative Albuquerque has announced its second annual Albuquerque Symposium on the Creative Economy November 4, 2011 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. The cornerstone of the organization's Creative Economy Education Project, the Symposium features three internationally renowned keynote speakers and two panel discussions. Titled MIND TO MARKET: Protecting Your Intellectual Capital, the all day event focuses on intellectual property, originality and ownership. Designed to foster dialogue and increase shared knowledge, the symposium features roundtable discussions over lunch, a coffee welcome and a closing reception.

Tickets are $65 for Creative Albuquerque members, $85 for non-members. Advance tickets required, call 505-268-1920 or visit http://www.creativeabq.org/about-us/ABQ-Symposium-on-the-Creative-Economy

The event opens with a joint morning keynote from Jim Barnham, Deputy General Counsel, Hubbard Broadcasting, ReelzChannel, KOB-TV and Alisa Valdez Rodriguez, writer, producer and publisher. Each will share their perspectives on intellectual property in the entertainment industry.

Two panels explore the creative economy and the creative entrepreneur and feature three panelists each plus a legal expert moderator. The first panel, Intellectual Property Primer discusses the realities of today's intellectual property realm for creative individuals. Moderator Marsha Baum, Professor of Law, Regents Professorship, UNM School of Law leads the panel, which includes Del Esparza, President and Owner, Esparza Advertising, Peri Pakroo - Director, P-Brain Media, and David H. Rogers - Manager of Scalable Analysis and Visualization, Sandia Labs.

During lunch panelists, moderators and other subject matter experts will host open roundtables where participants can discuss topics and issues of interest to them, and network with others.
After lunch, the second panel, Originality & Ownership, will be led by Hilary A. Noskin, Intellectual Property Attorney, Peacock Myers, P.C., in a discussion of the ownership of creative ideas, cultural appropriation, theft and licensing. Panelists include Gail Chehak, Executive Director, Indian Arts & Crafts Assocation, Joshua Klein, writer, director and filmmaker and Nora Tocci, President and Co-founder, Contrast Optical Design & Engineering.

The third keynote speaker, Catherine Casserly, Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons, will discuss the origins and future of Creative Commons, an alternative copyright and licensing organization. Creative Commons gives everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work - a "some rights reserved" approach to copyright - which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet.

Visit online at www.creativeabq.org.

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