The BRIC Media Talks series features inspiring talks from professional producers, directors, documentary filmmakers, editors, and new media producers sharing their perspectives and stories with the community.
Jeff Hermes, a Harvard Law School trained attorney will bring his legal expertise to BRIC Arts | Media House for a very special BRIC Media Talks in January 2016. If you're a filmmaker, photographer, journalist, television artist, or web series creator you won't want to miss this extremely useful talk related to legal issues that can come when you're working with digital media.
Jeff is an accomplished media and First Amendment attorney dedicated to protecting the free flow of information to the public.
He currently serves as one of two Deputy Directors of the Media Law Resource Center, an international trade organization for attorneys who defend freedom of expression and media rights. His efforts at the MLRC focus on studying trends in digital media law issues.
Jeff previously served as the Director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where he led multiple initiatives to provide free legal resources in response to the needs of independent journalists and online media ventures. Prior to joining the Berkman Center, Jeff assisted a wide array of clients in First Amendment, media, intellectual property and Internet law issues as a partner in the litigation practice of Brown Rudnick LLP and later as counsel to Hermes, Netburn, O'Connor & Spearing, P.C. in Boston.
Jeff has represented an international media network and its subsidiaries, major metropolitan newspapers, broadcasters on television and radio, Internet-based publishers and social media networks. He has frequently been interviewed by national and international press outlets, written for numerous publications, spoken at a wide array of events, and been invited to international forums to discuss digital media law issues.
Jeff holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, and received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton University.
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