Content Creation 101
Date: 04/27/2026
Time: 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM
Mark your calendars for April 27th, from 6:30-8:30 PM!
Content creators and influencers on the Internet, social media, and video sharing platforms comprise a rapidly growing area of the arts and entertainment industries. Where visual artists historically relied on brick-and-mortar galleries to display, publicize, and sell their art, the ease of use and wide reach of Internet platforms are now being used extensively by artists to display, share, promote, and sell their art directly to collectors.
Join us for an interactive panel discussion with entertainment and intellectual property attorneys from the Wisconsin Entertainment Lawyers Association (WELA) to discuss the topics artists need to know when navigating the Internet, social media, and video sharing platforms with relation to their art. Our panelists will discuss major legal and practical issues in this fast-moving area, including an overview of the various platforms, copyright and trademark issues, sponsorship agreement basics, and legal pitfalls to avoid. REGISTER HERE
Bryan T. Kroes is an attorney and shareholder with Hurtado Zimmerman SC in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Bryan's law practice includes entertainment, including entertainment-adjacent business, intellectual property, construction, and real property law.
As an entertainment attorney, Bryan represents musicians, artists, content creators, performers, independent record labels, film companies, publishers, venues, and other creative types, together with entertainment-adjacent businesses such as breweries, restaurants, and similar clients in the hospitality industries, in both transactional and dispute resolution matters. A lifelong musician with an extensive history of touring, production work, and talent buying, they bring a seasoned, unique, and practical approach to the business side of entertainment. Bryan is a founding member, and currently serves as Treasurer, for the Wisconsin Entertainment Lawyers Association. Bryan also sits on the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries and was the Chair for the Entertainment portion of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.