Owen Seitel
Member
owen.seitel@idellseitel.com
Phone: 415-986-2400
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1963
Education: University of Florida, B.A., magna cum laude, 1985, University of Denver, J.D., 1988
Admissions: 1988, California
Biography:
Owen Seitel is a founding partner of Idell & Seitel, LLP. His practice focuses on transactions and litigation involving intellectual property and business matters primarily in the entertainment, media, sports and technology industries.
Owen's clients are active in the converging entertainment, sports, new media and technology sectors including filmmakers, athletes and others involved in the sports world, fitness industry professionals, music and live event producers, and distributors of all forms entertainment, sports and information content. Owen handles both transactional matters -- all aspects of the creation, protection, licensing and distribution of intellectual property -- and litigation of business and intellectual property disputes in state and federal courts and arbitration panels both domestically and internationally through organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization. Owen counsels and assists business enterprises from the idea and start-up stage, through financing and growth, joint venture and merger and acquisition to dissolution.
Owen is an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University School of Law and a periodic guest lecturer at the University of San Francisco Graduate Program in Sports and Facilities Management. He has written feature articles for Ziff Davis publications and he frequently appears as a panelist at various technology, multimedia, law and entertainment industry conferences. He is a member of the California and San Francisco Bar Associations, the ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries and California Lawyers for the Arts. Owen is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Headlands Center for the Arts, which provides residencies and work space for emerging artists from around the world in former military buildings located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Marin County, California.
Teaching/Seminars
Moderator/Panelist, “Get Into the Game: Sports Law 101” Presented by the Sports and Entertainment Law Section of the Barristers Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco. February 24, 2010: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm. Other panelists include Jack Bair, Senior V.P. and General Counsel for the San Francisco Giants; Adam Brezine Partner, Holme, Roberts & Owen, LLP; and Justin H. Bass, Managing Director, CSI Capital Management. For more information click here. This event will also be webcast. To register for the Webcast Click here.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, Spring 2002 to Spring 2005.
Adjunct Professor, San Francisco State University, Music and Recording Industries Program, "Legal Aspects of the Music and Recording Industry," Spring 2001.
Lecturer, Golden Gate University, Graduate Program in Arts Administration, "Intellectual Property Law," Fall 2000.
Panelist, Online Market World 2007. Dealing with Phishing, Clickfraud and Identity Theft
Panelist, Online Market World 2007, Innovation and Liability - Managing Risks in the Web 2.0 Era.
Panelist, Annual Meeting, American Bar Association, Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, New York, NY October 7, 2005. link
Panelist, Bar Association of San Francisco, 2001 Annual Licensing Institute, "Licensing an Athlete's Name and Likeness for Use in a Sports Video Game," Sept. 20, 2001.
Speaker, Streaming Media West 2001 Conference, "Intellectual Property Rights and Management," June 21, 2001. link
Panelist, University of San Francisco College of Law, "Breaking into the Sports and Entertainment Industries," November 2000.
Panelist, Streaming Media West 2000 Conference, "Content - Original Programming or Licensing/Syndication," December 14, 2000. link
Panelist, Bandwidth Conference, San Francisco, CA, "Whose Web is it Anyway? Turf Wars on the WWW," August 2000.
Panelist, Streaming Media Europe 2000 Conference, London, UK, "Global Legislation for Streaming Media - Is It Practical?," June 12, 2000. link
Panelist, Streaming Media West 1999, San Francisco, CA, "General Legal Issues in Streaming Entertainment Content," December 8, 1999. link
Publications
Ziff Davis Internet Magazine, Associate Features Editor, 1997.
Ziff Davis Internet Magazine, "Caught in the Legal Web," November 30, 1997.
Ziff Davis Internet Magazine, "The Domain Name Frame Up," January 1997.
Interviewee/Information Source, San Francisco Chronicle, "Mind Your Business," Ilana DeBare, December 14, 2005. link
Interviewee/Information Source, eWeek, "Technology Isn't the Only Loser in Grokster Ruling," eWeek, July 2, 2005. link
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "Court cracks down on anti-abortion site," May 17, 2002. link
Interviewee/Information Source, Le Nouvel Hebdo, "Les radios du Net contraintes à des royalties," March 15, 2002. link
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "Appeals Court Upholds Anti-Spam Law," January 4, 2002. link
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "Net Porn Law Heads to High Court," Nov. 27, 2001. link
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "Court: AOL can't distribute version 6.0," October 30, 2001. link
Interviewee/Information Source, Le Nouvel Hebdo, "Les enfants de Napster en process," Oct. 26, 2001. link
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "Net-porn law applies deadline pressure," October 6, 2001. link
Interviewee/Information Source, Le Nouvel Hebdo, "Stars et majors du disque se retrouvent face auz parlementaires americains," June 8, 2001.
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "Copyright battle: Is an e-book a book?," May 6, 2001. link
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "IBM spin-off takes global view of patents," January 14, 2002. link
Interviewee/Information Source, CNET.COM, "E-Filing to put 'Brief' in Legal Filings," April 6, 2001. link
Interviewee/Information Source, Business 2.0, "Battle for XBox Name," D. Lawlor, February 5, 2001
Interviewee/Information Source, Forrester Report, "P2P's Pervasive Future Report," Bruce Kasrel, et al., January 2001. link
Interviewee/Information Source, San Francisco Business Times, "Startups go on Hunt for Bright Ideas," J. Rhine, December 1, 2000. link
