Abstract
Pippa Loengard: I want to introduce our speakers for our first afternoon panel. To my left is Richard Altman. Richard is in private practice and has been the lawyer on many, if not most, seminal copyright and art law cases. He is currently representing Jeanne Marchig in her suit against Christie’s. To his left is Pierre Valentin. Pierre heads Withers LLP’s international art law practice and is based in London. And to Pierre’s left-and actually, Steve is going to talk before Pierre-is Steven Reiss, who is a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. There are more thorough biographies in your materials. Also in the materials are some readings that Pierre recommended for those of you with less background in EU and British laws. I just want to highlight those materials. I’ll turn it over to Richard.