353 West 11th Street #3B
New York , NY 10014
ph: 212-463-0299
alt: 917-216-5272
kathleen
Kathleen Conkey is an experienced New York City media and copyright lawyer with a focus on television and film content, as well as books, plays, documentaries and screenplays. In practice for 30 years, she provides legal advice and counsel on fair use, copyright, trademark, libel, right of publicity, misappropriation, privacy and news gathering torts. She offers insight and help with E&O insurance, including fair use opinion letters and risk assessments.
Her clients are filmmakers, documentarians, television production companies, producers, authors, memoirists, screenwriters, playwrights and other content creators, including two Academy Award-nominated documentarians, a Pulitizer Prize-winning author, several production companies with popular reality series on cable networks and filmmakers with theatrical and streaming releases.
The firm offers advice on fair use, copyright, defamation, privacy, right of publicity, misappropriation, trademark, newsgathering, First Amendment, releases, hidden camera, "Son of Sam" laws and confidential sources, with an emphasis on clearances and pre-publication review, to help protect your content and your business from legal claims.
Kathleen Conkey was a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton and Lankenau, Kovner & Kurtz and an in-house attorney at MTV Networks - Viacom, CBS Television and King World Productions, where she served as production counsel for scores of television programs of every conceivable format--daily news, talk, game shows, reality, scripted comedy and drama, food, lifestyle, animated, courtroom and awards shows.
(c) Law Offices of Kathleen Conkey 2008-2019. All rights reserved.
New York Entertainment Lawyer, Copyright Attorney, Production Counsel
353 West 11th Street #3B
New York , NY 10014
ph: 212-463-0299
alt: 917-216-5272
kathleen