Bio
From her very first employment in 1987 as Direct Sales Manager for Spin Magazine (when she was still attending Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School nearby) to her present position at Carlin's corporate headquarters, Thea has always brought equal quantities of talent, intellectual prowess, versatility and passion to a constantly expanding professional life in the musical arts.
During her freshman year at Hunter College (where she juggled three majors - music, psychology, and the Thomas Hunter Honors Program - and a sociology minor), Thea resigned from Spin Magazine to devote full time to her academic pursuits but, inevitably, soon was hosting her own heavy metal show on the college radio station. Thea's "Hunter From Hell" became such a mainstay in the university's cultural life that she was asked to accept the position of Promotions Director for the station . . . Read full bio
Practice Areas
Research, negotiation and document preparation pertaining to:
- Copyright law
- Contracts and licenses
- Laws affecting small businesses
- The internet and emerging technologies
Education
- JD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1997
Honors: H. Bert & Ruth Mack Scholarship
Activities: Copy Editor and Writer, The Cardozo Law Forum - BA (magna cum laude), Hunter College (CUNY), 1991
Triple major: Music, Psychology, Thomas Hunter Honors Program
Honors: Member, Psi Chi (national honor society in psychology); Dean's List, Fall 1987 through Fall 1990; Regents Scholarship
Activities: Promotions director and DJ, Hunter College Radio - Stuyvesant High School, 1987
Experience
- Carlin America, Inc., 1998 - present
Read more in my bio. - Reuben, Cera & Alter (law firm representing the estates of deceased songwriters), 1995 - 1997
- Select Records (a joint venture with Atlantic Recording Corporation), 1991 - 1994
- K-Rock WXRK and Z-Rock WZRC (Infinity Broadcasting), 1991
Read amusing anecdotes about my internship. - Spin Magazine, 1988 - 1989
Associations
- Member, National Lawyers Guild - New York City Chapter
- Member, New York City Bar Association
- Committee member, Copyright and Literary Property Committee, 2009 - 2012
Speaking Engagements
- Current Developments in Copyright Law 2010, March 23, 2010
Continuing Legal Education program at the New York City Bar Association
Details and registration - Tolkien v. New Line: An overview of the recent lawsuit in plain English, Sept. 1, 2008
Tolkien's Middle Earth Track, Dragon*Con, Atlanta, GA
Watch video excerpts on YouTube - Know Your Rights: Copyright Law for the Creator of Fan Works, Sept. 1, 2007 and Aug. 29, 2008
Tolkien's Middle Earth Track, Dragon*Con, Atlanta, GA
Read full text - Legal Issues in Filmmaking (participant in panel discussion), Sept. 2, 2007
Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival, Dragon*Con, Atlanta, GA
Copyright Office Activities
- Submitted comment regarding exemption to prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies, January 11, 2009
Read comment - Participant in roundtable discussion regarding compulsory licensing of musical works under Section 115 of the U.S. Copyright Law,
June 15, 2007
Read my report
Bar Admission
New York