Meeka Bondy, Senior Counsel, Technology Transactions & Privacy Group and Co-Chair, Film and TV Group, Perkins Coie LLP: Meeka Bondy’s practice spans the content lifecycle, from the ways that such innovations as AI, AR, VR, and MR influence content creation and development, through to the impact of emerging platforms, networks, devices and apps on content acquisition, licensing and distribution. Serving as a strategic business partner to clients at the intersection of media and technology, she draws on nearly 20 years of executive experience guiding entrepreneurial ventures and innovative transactions at global media and entertainment companies. With experience on both the buyer and seller side of the table, Meeka is extremely versatile in the windowing strategies, distribution structures, and licensing models explored by movie studios, television networks, streaming services, and digital media companies. Meeka drafts, structures, and negotiates agreements involving distribution by means of theatrical, pay, basic cable, and broadcast television, linear and on demand television, subscription video on demand (SVOD), advertising-based video on demand (AVOD), and transactional video on demand (TVOD). Her knowledge includes electronic sell-through (EST), home video, digital downloads, and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD). Her deep industry experience extends to transactions involving virtual MVPDs, Over-the-Top (OTT), TV Everywhere (TVE), direct-to-consumer (DTC), stand-alone and bundled streaming services and apps, and video game consoles and platforms. Meeka also has significant experience in international licensing matters, addressing such issues as competition law, regulatory requirements, censorship approvals, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA.)igitalhollywood.com An active member of her professional community, Meeka is a founding board member of AIM (Asian Americans in Media) and the Future Now Media Foundation and founding chair of WICT NY’s (Women in Cable Telecommunications NY) Mentoring Circle. She is a graduate of the Stanford Business School Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives and the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute (Class XXII).

Tre Lovell has been noted among the elite trial lawyers in the nation, having been named Lawyer of the Year, Finalist, by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and further honored by The National Law Journal as one of the Top 50 Litigation Trailblazers in the country. Mr. Lovell was recently named to The National Trial Lawyers Top 100, and has been further recognized among the top 1% of attorneys in the United States as a litigator through such esteemed organizations as the National Association of Distinguished Counsel, Top 100 High Stakes Litigators, Lawyers of Distinction (named to Advisory Board), Elite Lawyers, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Distinguished Justice Advocates, America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators, Rue's Best Attorneys of America, Top Lawyers USA, America's Top 50 Lawyers and the Trial Lawyers Board of Regents. Having been named among the California Superlawyers, Mr. Lovell also received the 2014 and 2015 Litigator Awards for extraordinary litigation achievement, an award given to less that 1% of attorneys in the U.S. and approximately 12 firms per state each year. He has received the Client's Choice Award and a 10.0 "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo, and has been ranked as Los Angeles' Top Business Attorney and Entertainment by numerous consumer organizations (ThreeBestRated, Socialcatfish and UpCity). Mr. Lovell is also interviewed routinely on high profile cases and issues by the national media.

Amy Gajda, Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School: Professor Gajda is a journalist turned lawyer recognized internationally for her expertise in privacy and media law. Much of her scholarship explores the tensions between social regulation of access to information and First Amendment values, particularly the shifting boundaries of press freedoms and rising public anxieties about the erosion of privacy. Viking published Professor Gajda’s Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy in 2022 to significant critical acclaim. The New York Times called it “wry and fascinating” and named it as one of the 100 most notable books of the year; the courts of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit chose it as the Circuit’s inaugural “One Court. One Book” summer reading. Harvard University Press published her two earlier books, The First Amendment Bubble and The Trials of Academe. Professor Gajda’s scholarly articles have appeared in journals that include the American Historical Review, California Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and Washington Law Review. She is an author of the leading casebooks Media Law (Foundation Press) and Law and Higher Education (Carolina Academic Press), and has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes. Professor Gajda is also currently serving as an adviser on the American Law Institute’s new Restatement on Defamation and Privacy, a multi-year project. On the journalism side, Professor Gajda’s opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Slate, Time, the Daily Beast, and the New York Daily News, among others, and she is regularly quoted and appears in media including The Guardian, The New Yorker, Marketplace, C-SPAN, and the CBS Morning News. Her earlier weekly radio commentaries on legal issues won seven Associated Press awards. Before joining Brooklyn Law School’s faculty in 2023, Gajda was the Class of 1937 Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, where she won the highest teaching awards offered by both the law school and the university , especially significant to her as a first-generation college student. Before that, she taught at the University of Illinois in both its law school and its journalism school where she was consistently named to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students. Before law school, she worked as a television news anchor and reporter in cities mainly in the Northeast. After attending law school in Detroit, the city where she grew up, she practiced law in Washington, D.C. Professor Gajda has been a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and Asia, teaching mainly privacy law and media law. She has chaired the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Defamation and Privacy and its Section on Communication, Media & Information Law, and also led the Law and Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.