Chrissie Scelsi
- Professional
Entertainment and New Media Lawyer
Chrissie Scelsi is the principal of Scelsi Entertainment and New Media Law in Port Charlotte, Florida. She focuses her practice in entertainment and intellectual property law, including but not limited to matters for clients in music, film, video games, interactive and social media, as well as copyright, trademark and general business counseling. She provides counseling for clients in person and via a virtual law office accessible here: http://scelsilaw.com/virtual_law_office.html Ms. Scelsi has written articles on a number of entertainment and new technology law topics, and co-edited the book Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: A New Frontier in Intellectual Property Law, published by the American Bar Association in the spring of 2010. She is also the author of the PunkLawyer Blog: An Entertainment Law Blog with the Independent Scene in Mind, http://www.punklawyerblog.com
Publications
- “You Let My Avatar Do WHAT? Recent Developments in Music Video Games,” forthcoming, The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, Spring 2010.
- Annual Review Updates- New FTC Endorsement Guidelines, Florida Attorney General Opinion, Spring 2010
- Co-Editor, Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: A New Frontier in Intellectual Property Law, ABA Publishing 2010
- Member, ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law Annual Review Editorial Board
- “Stopping the Collision,” The Science and Technology Lawyer, Winter 2008
- “Rockin’ the Living Room: How Guitar Hero and Rock Band Aim to Change the Music Industry” The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, Spring 2008
- “The iPhone: Hacking and Cracking and Copyright,” The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, Fall 2007
- “YouTube: The World of Viral Video,” The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, Fall 2006.
Professional Affiliations
- Steering Committee Member, Social Media Club Southwest Florida
- Member, Recording Academy
- Young Lawyer Fellow, American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law
- Member, American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries
- Member, Florida Section of Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law
- Vice Chair Elect, ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law Committee on Trademarks and the Internet
Content Created By Member
| 04.03.2012 |
Paying Attention to Sites Terms of Service Pays OffThis post comes to you from Washington, D.C., where I’ve been attending the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law Annual Meeting. Social media definitely was among the hot... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 01.31.2012 |
Social Media & The Law: 5 Hot Topics in 2012Happy new year, Social Media Club members. Given the recent protest over the SOPA and PIPA acts via web blackouts of sites like Wikipedia, 2012 is looking to be another banner year of interesting... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 11.07.2011 |
Legal questions to ask when creating social media policiesSocial media policies are another hot and constantly developing area of the law today. For this month’s post, I am following up on Jessica’s post about making sure your social media policy is... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 10.06.2011 |
User Privacy Policies in the NewsIn my last post I talked about the hot topic of who owns users’ geolocation data that apps collect. This post I’m discussing what seems to be a perpetual hot topic: privacy. The headlines... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 09.12.2011 |
Protecting Users Geolocation DataGeolocation is certainly a hot topic, with everyone from social network operators to app developers looking to find ways to include location information and hopefully monetize it. But... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 06.08.2011 |
Always consider your online activity could be used in courtLately I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the impact of what we post and say online. Living in Orlando and watching the coverage of the high profile Casey Anthony trial that is currently... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 01.31.2011 |
Social Media and the LawThe intersection of new technologies like social media and the law seems to be quite a busy place. It seems that every day I read at least one or more articles, blog posts, or letter to Dear Abby... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 01.04.2011 |
Business Compliance with Children's Online Privacy Protection ActChrissie Scelsi is the principal of Scelsi Entertainment and New Media Law in Port Charlotte, Florida. She focuses her practice in entertainment and intellectual property law, including but not... |
Social Media Clubhouse |
| 12.09.2010 |
Intellectual Property for Social Media 101I’m really excited to join the Editorial Team here at Social Media Club, and to have the opportunity to inform and hopefully entertain you a bit about the intersection of social media and the law... |
Social Media Journal |
