Aaron D. Settipane Email and Phone Number

An entertainment industry veteran specializing in rights management, rights clearances (for production, content, music, third-party content), name/likeness and rights of publicity issues, intellectual property rights administration, content licensing, marketing legal issues, PII/Privacy matters, and motion picture legal delivery (acquisitions and in-house productions); I'm also a veteran of entertainment journalism of nearly ten years, as a photojournalist covering A-list celebrity events, red carpets, concerts and alternative lifestyle events all over California, Nevada, Texas and New York, with content syndicated to a worldwide audience in all media.Finally, I am a public speaker on current media, distribution, Web3, celebrity, and rights issues affecting the entertainment, production, media and digital media arenas (including cord-cutting, OTT, piracy, personality rights, copyright, celebrity rights, copyright, rights of publicity and privacy issues). I present at academic conferences pursuant to my near 10 years experiences as a part-time Lecturer of Communication at USC Annenberg School for Communication and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts.My speaking & lecturing engagements include presenting at the Pop Culture Association, Talent Week at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Pop-Up Academic Conference of Popular Culture at Lone Star College, Northeast Modern Language Association, US-China Institute at USC Annenberg, Computers & Writing Conference, Conference on College Composition & Communication Convention, USC Annenberg Immersion Program at Sony Pictures, EBxUCLA Riordan Programs at UCLA, CSU Fullerton Comm Week, Southern California Business Film Festival at USC and more.