On March 28, the Harvard Law School Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law hosted its annual Sports Symposium.\u00a0 Sports industry leaders gathered at Wasserstein Hall to discuss the various legal challenges presented by the ever-changing experience of sports fans.\u00a0 As always, CSEL put on a terrific event that drew a number of distinguished speakers, with the keynote address given by Ken Hershman, President of HBO Sports.\u00a0 Notable panel participants included, among others, Len Komoroski, CEO of the Cleveland Cavaliers; Jon Oram, Partner at Proskauer Rose; Ed Weiss, General Counsel of the Red Sox and NESN; Brett Goodman, Senior Vice President of NBC Olympics and NBC Sports; Ed Durso, Executive Vice President of Administration at ESPN; and Mary Braza, Partner at Foley & Lardner.\u00a0 The event\u2019s moderators included Harvard Law Professor Peter Carfagna, Professor Michael McCann of the University of New Hampshire\u2019s Sports and Entertainment Law Institute and SportsIllustrated.com, and Patrick Rishe of Sportsimpacts.<\/p>\n
Symposium Co-Chairs Chris Davis \u201814 and John Geise \u201814 chose to focus on the numerous ways in which being a sports fan has changed in recent years.\u00a0 In particular, the Symposium highlighted the impact of new technology on fans\u2019 consumption of their favorite sports.\u00a0 Panelists spoke about the struggle to establish ownership of newly-created media rights, confront pirates who try to steal their companies\u2019 content for free, and monetize new technologies like mobile device streaming.\u00a0 Representatives of up-and-coming providers of sports fan content, such as Lauren Fisher of SB Nation and Vox Media, added a different perspective on the ability of such platforms to increase team and league popularity, and on their rights to \u201cfair use\u201d of such content.\u00a0 Finally, in his keynote address, HBO\u2019s Hershman spoke about the importance of fan involvement to the success of his company\u2019s business model.<\/p>\n
The Symposium\u2019s impressive lineup drew other attorneys, law students from across New England, and sports fans from the community to the all-day event.\u00a0 Each panel concluded with an opportunity for audience members to ask questions, which led to intriguing conversations about the discrepancies between moral and legal obligations, censorship of live events, and more.\u00a0 The debates continued as the panelists and audience members moved on to the reception at the law school pub, capping off a well-attended and highly successful event.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
Kim Miner is a 1L at Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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