Elizabeth T. Russell helps businesses protect their most important assets by providing thoughtful, thorough counsel in copyright, trademark, and arts law. She is the author of Arts Law Conversations: A Surprisingly Readable Guide for Arts Entrepreneurs and a companion volume, Copyright Conversations: What Estate Planners Need to Know. Atty. Russell earned her law degree from New York’s Pace University School of Law, where she served as a member of the Pace Law Review. She is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Maine.
Atty. Russell is a past chair of the Sports and Entertainment Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin and a member of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. She is also the host of Doppelnamers, an 11-part podcast telling the story of her “doppelnamer,” Elizabeth Russell, who was tried for murder in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1892.
- Identify and protect copyright assets in your clients’ estates, even when those assets are unregistered or overlooked
- Avoid common pitfalls by understanding how federal copyright law can preempt state estate and marital property law planning
- Safeguard estate plans from disruption by the powerful “termination right,” which can derail prior transfers
- Enhance client service with practical tools for transferring copyrights
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