OMPA & Miller Nash - LEGAL SERIES - #2 — Clearance & AI

Stay Legally Clear: How creators can navigate intellectual property, publicity and privacy, defamation, and AI driven risk. OMPA & Miller Nash - LEGAL SERIES Workshop 2 — Clearance & AI Stay Legally Clear: How creators can navigate intellectual property, publicity and privacy, defamation, and AI driven risk. This workshop helps creators identify clearance issues and develop a thoughtful clearance strategy. We’ll explore how real‑world people, places, brands, content, and AI‑generated material can trigger IP, publicity, privacy, and defamation concerns—and provide examples of uses that may be permissible without permission under fact‑specific circumstances, alongside those that generally require permission. Chris Weathers is a business attorney focused on the sports, media, and entertainment industries, helping clients create, protect, and monetize content across a wide range of platforms. He advises major distributors, studios, production companies, independent creators, and emerging startups on all phases of content creation, including production finance, rights acquisition and development, production legal, and distribution. His experience spans film, television, podcasts, video games and esports, live and virtual events, publishing, music, and digital media, with projects that have premiered at Tribeca, appeared on major platforms, won Emmy Awards, and been shortlisted for the Oscars.