Jon M. Garon

Professor of Law, 

Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University

of counsel, Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

 Admitted to practice law in California, New Hampshire, and Minnesota 

Jon Garon is an attorney and professor of informatics, entertainment, intellectual property and business law. He has extensive practice experience in the areas of entertainment law (including film, music, theatre and publishing), data privacy and security, business planning, copyright, trademark, and software licensing.

Professor Garon is the inaugural director of the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Law & Informatics Institute, which provides a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study, research, scholarship, and practical application of informatics, focusing on the regulation and utilization of information – including its creation, acquisition, aggregation, security, manipulation and exploitation – in the fields of intellectual property law, privacy law, evidence (regulating government and the police), business law, and international law. 

Under his direction, the Law & Informatics Institute encourages thoughtful public discourse on the regulation and use of information systems, business innovation, and the development of best business practices regarding the exploitation and effectiveness of the information and data systems in business, health care, media, and entertainment, and the public sector.

Professor Garon has written numerous books and articles, including The Independent Filmmaker’s Law & Business Guide to Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films (A Cappella Books, 2d Ed. 2009); Own It – The Law & Business Guide to Launching a New Business Through Innovation, Exclusivity and Relevance (Carolina Academic Press 2007); and Entertainment Law & Practice (Carolina Academic Press 2005) (supplement 2010). 

Prior to joining Chase, Professor Garon served as dean and professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul. He was professor of law from 2003-2011, Dean of the Law School from 2003-2008 and Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Management in 2005-06. Before Hamline, Professor Garon taught entertainment law and copyright at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. While in New Hampshire, he served as Chairperson of the New Hampshire Film Commission.

Professor Garon also has extensive practice experience. He is currently of counsel at Gallagher, Callahan, and Gartrell, in New Hampshire, focusing on entertainment law, business planning, copyright, software licensing, data privacy and security, and trademark law. 

Professor Garon’s recent book chapters include Copyright, Trademark, Trade Secret and Publicity Rights Concerns in Emerging Legal Issues in RFID and Other Contactless Data Exchange Systems: What Lawyers Should Know, Google, Fairness and the Battle of the Books in The 2010 IP Book, and Localism as a Production Imperative: An Alternative Framework to For Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage in Bits without Borders.

Professor Garon’s academic articles include The Implications of Informatics on Data Policy, for the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Indi), Wiki Authorship, Social Media and the Curatorial Audience, for the Harvard Journal of Sport and Entertainment Law, Content, Control and the Socially Networked Film, for the Brandeis Law Journal, Reintermediation, for the International Journal of Private Law, Playing in the Virtual Arena: Avatars and Identity Reconceptualized through Virtual Worlds and Computer Games for Chapman Law Review, What if DRM Fails?: Seeking Patronage in the iWasteland and the Virtual O, for the Michigan State Law Review, Acquiring and Managing Identity Interests, for the new Entertainment Law Review at University of Florida, Normative Copyright: A Conceptual Framework for Copyright Philosophy & Ethics for Cornell Law Review, Entertainment Law, for the Tulane Law Review.

He earned a bachelor of arts from University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and a juris doctor from Columbia University School of Law.

Selected Publications

• The Work-Made-for-Hire Doctrine Revisited: Startup and Technology Employees and the Use of Contracts in a Hiring Relationship,| Download | Minn. 12 J.L. Sci. & Tech. 489 (2011)
• Video Games, Virtual Worlds and Social Media |Download | 
  Jon M. Garon, ENTERTAINMENT LAW & PRACTICE, Carolina Academic Press, 2005 and Supplement 2010
• Searching Inside Google: Cases, Controversies and the Future of the World’s Most Provocative Company,| Download | 30 Loyola of L.A. L. Rev. 429 (2010).
• Playing in the Virtual Arena: Avatars, Publicity and Identity Reconceptualized through Virtual Worlds and Computer Games,| Download | 
  Chapman Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2008
• Take Back the Night: Why an Association of Regional Law Schools Will Return Core Values to Legal Education and Provide an Alternative to Tiered Rankings,Download | 
  University of Toledo Law Review, Symposium: Leadership in Legal Education (Issue VII), Vol. 38, Fall 2006
• Own It - The Law & Business Guide to Launching a New Business through Innovation, Exclusivity and Relevance (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming Sept. 2007)
• "Acquiring and Managing the Identity Interests for Software and Media Products" ", 1 Entertainment Law Review 41 (2006)" PDF
  
• "Entertainment Law and Practice" " (Carolina Academic Press, 2005)"
• "Theater Law: Cases and Materials " "(Carolina Academic Press, 2004; 2005 supp.) (with others)"
• "Normative Copyright: a Conceptual Framework for Copyright Philosophy and Ethics" ", 88 Cornell Law Review 1278 (2003)" PDF
  
• The Independent Filmmaker’s Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films (A Cappella Books, 2002)
• "The Electronic Jungle: the Application of Intellectual Property Law to Distance Education" ", 4 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice, 146 (2002)" PDF
  
• "Entertainment Law" ", 76 Tulane Law Review 559 (2002)" PDF
  
• "Media & Monopoly in the Information Age: Slowing the Convergence at the Marketplace of Ideas" ", 17 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 491 (1999)" PDF
  
• "Star Wars: Film Permitting, Prior Restraint & Government's Role in the Entertainment Industry" ", 17 Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal 1 (1996)" PDF
  
• Charity Begins at Home: Alternatives in Nonprofit Regulation , 2 Western State University Consumer Law Journal 1 (1993)

Ongoing Programs

• Chase Law Review, Law & Informatics Symposium: The Northern Kentucky Law Review and Salmon P. Chase College of Law seek submissions for the Law & Informatics Symposium on March 1-2, 2012. The Law Review Symposium will take place March 2nd. It will be preceded by a day-long CLE program March 1 regarding practical solutions to current problems facing attorneys and clients.
• The Symposium is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, consultants, and students to exchange ideas and explore emerging issues in informatics law, disruptive innovation and the increasingly interconnected information environment. Interdisciplinary presentations are encouraged. 

• Submissions & Important Dates:

  • Please submit materials to nklr.symposium@gmail.com
  • Submission Deadline for Abstracts: September 15, 2011
  • Submission Deadline for Articles: January 15, 2012
  • Symposium Dates: March 1-2, 2012
  
• Entertainment Law: Representing the Independent Artist
  
• Introduction to International IP: Lawyers and business managers increasingly negotiate across political and cultural boundaries in today's professional environment. Based on a ?cradle-to-grave? approach to international deal-making, the Hamline Italy Program courses collectively teach students how to negotiate and draft international commercial transactions effectively, as well as use negotiation and other consensual dispute resolution processes to preserve and improve business relationships. These materials provide students a background and framework on the international aspects of intellectual property, including copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret, which serve as the backbone for many international trade aspects. These materials introduce multinational agreements developed by the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization of the United Nations.
  • Background and supplemental reading: Jon M. Garon, Introduction to International Intellectual Property (pdf)
    
  • Italy Program at Hamline University School of Law
    
  • World Intellectual Property Organization
    
  • World Trade Organization - Trade Related Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights
    
• STRATEGIC IDENTITY AND THE BRANDING OF LAW SCHOOLS (pdf)
  Presented at the American Association of Law Schools Section on Pre-Legal Education and Admission to Law School,Co-sponsored by the Section on Institutional Advancement