Intellectual Property & The Arts Panel

Join us on Friday November 15th for an engaging evening with two accomplished Intellectual Property Lawyers as we dive into essential strategies for protecting your creative work. Kinote Studios and Nia Centre offer artists and creators the opportunity to gain insights into safeguarding their IP in the entertainment/art industries. Whether you’re a musician, screen writer, author, visual artist, or digital creator, this event will empower you with the knowledge to understand and protect your IP rights.

Meet the Lawyers

Cheryl Grossman | Private Practice, Entertainment Law

Cheryl Grossman is an entertainment lawyer who works with established and emerging production companies and creative individuals in film, television, podcasts, and digital media. She guides clients and negotiates deals at every stage of their creative process from development, to production to exploitation of works. As their legal counsel, she
provides them with proactive and practical advice, based on her years of experience in media production, broadcaster business and rights management, and law. Cheryl previously worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the Business and Rights Department and at Bay Street law firms. She entered the media industry 25 years ago, when she acted as a political correspondent at the Quebec legislature for CJAD Radio and later worked in television news and on documentaries that aired on the CBC, the National Geographic Channel, and the History Channel.

Elizabeth S. Dipchand | Founder, Partner, Dipchand LLP

Elizabeth’s practice focuses on intellectual property law and litigation with a particular emphasis on biotech and tech. She provides practical advice and strategic enforcement strategies to clients on all forms of IP rights, including patents, trade-marks and copyrights. Clients rely on Elizabeth to advocate in high-stakes disputes with complex issues to protect and enforce the critical IP rights at the core of their business. In particular, she has extensive experience in the management of complex intellectual property litigation matters in Canada and their coordination in different jurisdictions around the world involving patents, trademarks, and copyright issues. On the solicitor- side of her practice, she regularly advises clients on IP identification issues, acquisitions through R&D, ventures & partnerships, IP management through life cycle strategies, licensing & assignments, and leveraging the technology for the prosperity of her clients’ ventures. Her desire to find intelligent solutions in the hidden paths forward, around, or through problems not readily evident to others drives her passion.

Moderator, Jasmine Kiara

Jasmine Kiara is an R&B artist based in Toronto. Showcasing a soulful, technically trained voice and a songwriting style that sets her apart, she is primed to be the next face of R&B. As a skilled songwriter, Jasmine has lent her pen and background vocals to Grammy & Juno award winning producers like Coop The Truth (Summer Walker, Wale), Txpski (Chris Brown), Neenyo (Beyonce, Jack Harlow), while developing her own sound. She is a Honey Jam alumni and a Remix Project Graduate (Round 18.0). Exceeding hundreds of thousands of streams on her independently published music, and performing in television shows such as FUBAR (Netflix) & Reacher (Amazon Prime) in 2022-2023 – she continues to solidify her place in the music, film and television space.