ASMP Colorado Professional Photographers

November 13, 2025 7:00 PM
ASMP & CPAC Members - FREE
Non-Members - $10
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ASMP Colorado Open Aperture - Getting Copyright Right
With Attorney, Dave Ratner

Are you a seasoned pro navigating the changing landscape of copyright and generative AI as it shows up more and more in everyday editing tools? Are you just starting your photography career and want to be sure you’re protecting your intellectual property and estimating and bidding with copyright in mind right from the start?

This is the presentation for you!

Join ASMP Colorado, CPAC, and founder of the Creative Law Network, Dave Ratner, for a presentation and Q&A on all things copyright, from the basics of registration, to tying copyright to your estimates and bids, to how the use of generative AI tools in editing is changing the copyright conversation and what you need to know to protect your work.

You don’t want to miss this valuable discussion!

Pizza and Beverages provided by ASMP!

Colorado Photographic Arts Center - CPAC
1200 Lincoln St.
Denver, CO

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dave Ratner

It isn’t often that you run into a band manager turned lawyer. But that’s Dave Ratner. During his career in the music business as a tour manager, publicist, band manager, and founder of his own management agency, Dave learned first-hand the important legal considerations and challenges creative professionals face. Dave channeled his passion for the creative arts into Creative Law Network, a law firm specifically serving creative people and businesses. As the principal of Creative Law Network, he leads a team that is passionate about the arts, ensuring creative work is protected, and helping creatives leverage the law to maximize the value of their work.

Dave is a founder and the Advisory Committee Chair of Colorado Attorneys for the Arts, the only organization providing pro bono legal services to artists and arts organizations in the Mountain West. Dave has been one of 5280's Top Lawyers for Entertainment Law since the magazine began publishing its list of top lawyers and been named both Client's Best and Barrister's Best Entertainment Lawyer by Law Week Colorado. Dave is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Denver College of Law. He is Chair Emeritus of the Sports & Entertainment Section of the Colorado Bar Association, Vice Chair of the Board of Swallow Hill Music, a member of the Silverthorne Art Board, a Director on the Board of Breck Create, a member of the Board of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, a graduate of Leadership Denver and Leadership Arts, and a past adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law. Dave is licensed to practice law in Colorado and New York.