Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Kevin Jerome Greene (b.in New York City, New York) is a professor of contract music law and entertainment law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. Professor Greene was the first legal scholar to examine the treatment of African-American art forms, such as the blues, under intellectual property law.Greene began his undergraduate studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, then left to join the U.S. Marines, where he was assigned to an F-4 Phantom jet squadron in the Far East. After completing his Marine Corps service with honors, he received his B.A. at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, and his J.D. at Yale Law School and then clerked for James H. Brickley of the Michigan Supreme Court. While at the Wall Street Law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, he represented Time-Warner/HBO and subsequently practiced entertainment law in New York at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz. Representative clients included film director Spike Lee, singer Bobby Brown, and the rap group Public Enemy. In 2005, Greene was voted by peers in the bar as one of the top ten attorneys in San Diego county in the area of Intellectual Property Law. In 2009, Greene tied for first place in the annual bar-sponsored charity comedy contest "Laf-off" ("Lawyers are Funny")."@en }
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- Q6396565 abstract "Kevin Jerome Greene (b.in New York City, New York) is a professor of contract music law and entertainment law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. Professor Greene was the first legal scholar to examine the treatment of African-American art forms, such as the blues, under intellectual property law.Greene began his undergraduate studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, then left to join the U.S. Marines, where he was assigned to an F-4 Phantom jet squadron in the Far East. After completing his Marine Corps service with honors, he received his B.A. at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, and his J.D. at Yale Law School and then clerked for James H. Brickley of the Michigan Supreme Court. While at the Wall Street Law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, he represented Time-Warner/HBO and subsequently practiced entertainment law in New York at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz. Representative clients included film director Spike Lee, singer Bobby Brown, and the rap group Public Enemy. In 2005, Greene was voted by peers in the bar as one of the top ten attorneys in San Diego county in the area of Intellectual Property Law. In 2009, Greene tied for first place in the annual bar-sponsored charity comedy contest "Laf-off" ("Lawyers are Funny").".