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Mableson Law appreciates the confidence our clients have placed in our legal services. We take great pride in personally representing individuals and companies in our practice areas, and we want our clients to think of us as their general counsel and to contact us regarding any legal issue whether or not it involves our areas of practice. Over the last 36 years, we have developed strong relationships with law firms in many different areas of practice. We refer to attorneys who are preeminent practitioners and provide excellent legal representation. We appreciate all referrals.

The following is a partial list of the thousands of clients whom we have had the privilege of representing:

  • Stephenie Meyer (Twilight Film Series)
  • Rob Halford (Judas Priest)
  • Allison DuBois (TV Show The Medium, & Books)
  • Linda Cobb – Queen of Clean (TV & Books)
  • CeCe Peniston (Music)
  • Square One Studios (Games)
  • Steve and Annette Economides (Books & TV)
  • EasyNews/PureGig (Internet & Usenet)
  • Onverse (Virtual World)
  • Martha Siegel (Internet & Books)
  • Kerrie Droban (Books)
  • Mike Jacka & Paulette Keller (Books)
  • Hale Dwoskin & The Sedona Method (Books & Film)
  • Amy Allan (TV Show, The Dead Files)
  • OnCast® (Live Video Streaming)
  • Tray Goodman (and his many video and television productions)
  • Lynette Zang (and her successful Youtube channel and books)
  • Katrina Palmisano/Palmisano Productions
  • SLOPE Records
  • Whirled Music Publishing/Fervor Records
  • Bob and Pat Bondurant
  • And many more. References available upon request.

Connie J. Mableson Profile

Connie J. Mableson represents clients throughout the United States and worldwide in intellectual property and business matters.

Her areas of expertise include:

  • Copyrights
  • Trademarks
  • Literary Law, Book Publishing Contracts, Interview Releases, Permissions & clearances
  • Pre-publication Legal Review of Non-Fiction Manuscripts. Please go to: www.literaryattorney.com  for more information on Book Publishing services and Vetting
  • Television
  • Music publishing and record contracts

With over 41 years of legal experience, Ms. Mableson is a trusted advisor and counselor, providing clients with preventative and pragmatic legal strategies to advance their creative and business objectives.

She is an AV rated attorney, indicating the highest level of professional excellence, skill, and integrity. She has also been named by Phoenix Business Journal as one of the “Top 10 IP Attorneys in Arizona,” and her firm has been honored as the “Top Boutique Firm for IP” in past years.

She is the author of the DMCA HANDBOOK™ for ISPs, Websites, Content Creators, and Copyright Owners. It is published  by the American Bar Association and is available on Amazon.

For over 10 years, Ms. Mableson was an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where she taught “Entertainment Business Contracts” and “Governance of Virtual Worlds”.

Complimenting her legal practice, Ms. Mableson is a frequent guest speaker, lecturer, and facilitator of many courses, seminars, and all-day legal education programs sponsored by various bar associations, universities, and nationally acclaimed seminars.

PROFESSIONAL ADMISSIONS

  • State Bar of Arizona
  • American Bar Association and various intellectual property committees
  • United States District Court, District of Arizona
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

RESUME

LEGAL EXPERIENCE (1982- current):
Managing Partner, Connie J. Mableson, PLLC (2006-current): AV RATED-Preeminent

Shareholder/Partner (1995-2006): DODGE, ANDERSON, MABLESON, STEINER, JONES & HOROWITZ, LTD.

Managing Partner, Connie J. Mableson, PLLC (1991-1995)

Associate Attorney at Law (1987-1991): Snell & Wilmer, LLP, Phoenix, AZ (over 450 attorneys)

Associate Attorney at Law (1986-1987): Quarles & Brady, LLP Phoenix, AZ(over 520 attorneys)

Associate Attorney at Law (1982-1985): Reed & Giesa, P.S., Spokane, WA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

2011-2020: Adjunct Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State
University teaching “Entertainment Business Contracts”

2010: Adjunct Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University teaching
“Governance of Virtual Worlds”

PUBLISHED BOOKS:

DMCA Handbook for Online Service Providers, Websites, and Copyright Owners,
published 2018 by The American Bar Association

DMCA Handbook for Virtual Worlds, published by Brooks Press

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

Shareholder & President, Soft Shoulder Music, Ltd., Music Publisher & Record Label

Shareholder & VP, DuPlessis, Ltd., Diamond Importer & Distributor

EDUCATION:

Gonzaga University School of Law, J.D. (cum laude) 1982
        – Editor-in-Chief, Canadian-American Law Journal Jessup Cup, International Moot Court Team
University of Denver, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Honors) 1982 

SKILLS:
 Transactional (90%): Negotiate and Draft complicated transactions and licensing deals throughout
the Entertainment, Media, and Finance Industries. Contracts are my passion;

Litigation (10%): Trademark and Copyright (and Unfair Competition and Trade Practices) litigation
in several District Courts and in the Ninth Circuit;

Early Adopter of Technology and early understanding of new technology legal issues; Experience
Collaborating with business side to achieve goals while mitigating risk; Experience working for
large firms, small sized firms, and as in-house counsel;

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Arizona State Bar Association
          – Former Board of Directors, Intellectual Property Section;
 American Bar Association
      – All Entertainment and Media Committees both transactional and litigation

American Intellectual Property Law Association
The Authors Guild, Member
Former Board of Directors, National Association of Women Business Owners
Former Board of Directors, Women in Film Arizona

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

Volunteer, Arizona Small Dog Rescue (2022- current)
Volunteer, Arizona Humane Society (2006-2008)
Chair, City of Phoenix Arts & Culture Commission (1999-2005)                                                                      Chairman of the Board, The Bead Museum (2004-2005)                                                                      Director, The Bead Museum, Inc. (2003-2004)                                                                                                   Director, Arizona Alliance for Arts Education, Inc. (2003-2004)
Advisory Board, Scottsdale Comm. Coll.-Motion Picture and TV Program (2002-present) City of
Phoenix, Cultural, Arts & Historic Preservation SubCommittee, Citizens Bond
                                     Committee-2001 Bond, Mayoral Appointment, Fall 2000
Junior League of Phoenix, Finance & Community Development Council (1983-1994)                          Friends of COMPASS,-Executive Committee and Culture Shock ’92 Venue Chairman 1992 Phoenix Symphony Ball Organizing Committee, Top Brass Committee
Co-Chairman, 1993 Maricopa County Bar Association Barristers Ball

BLOGS & WEBSITES: www.mablesonlaw.com; www.literaryattorney.com

PERSONAL: Hobbies include gardening, virtual worlds, Kung Fu, MMORPGS (WoW), tropical beaches,
movies & popcorn. Sports interests – Martial Arts and Hockey.

CONTACT

Connie J. Mableson, PLLC

Venjuris Building
1938 E. Osborn Road
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Phone: 602-277-8100 Office www.mablesonlaw.com

 
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  • Copyrights & Trademarks—File, License, Defend
  • Structure, Negotiate, & Prepare all Contracts
  • Books, Music, Compositions, TV & Film Productions
  • Literary and Publishing Law
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Connie J. Mableson, Esq., offers practical advice, options, and solutions to owners of creative and intellectual property assets. Connie can assist you with preparation, review, and negotiation of all contracts pertaining to your valuable creative and IP assets.

Mableson Law focuses on intellectual property, copyright, trademark, Arts & Entertainment, DMCA, and business matters related to individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses who own creative and intellectual property assets.

Mableson law is a preeminent, nationally recognized firm, representing clients across the United States and worldwide. Please see Practice Areas for more information about our professional services.

For over 41 years, Connie J. Mableson, Esq. has assisted her clients with the unique business and legal issues relating to the ownership and protection of intellectual property and creative assets including copyright and trademark use, intellectual property asset protection, clearances, licensing, and IP infringement.

Connie assists her clients to develop and implement practical and affordable legal strategies that monetize and enhance the value of your intellectual property now and in years to come.

Also go to www.literaryattorney.com for more information about getting your non-fiction manuscript vetted for a reasonable flat fee.

Books, Self-Publishing & Traditional Publishing

Author Representation & Book Contracts

Connie J. Mableson has over 22 years experience in the book industry representing authors and publishers related to traditional book publishing and digital publishing. She drafts,  reviews, and negotiates all kinds of  literary contracts, and is able to assist authors with issues created by the advent of online publishing, digital book downloads, and e-books.  She understands self-publishing as she is an author who first self-published her books about the DMCA (Copyright) and then was picked up by a major publishing house. The ABA published her “DMCA Handbook for Websites and Authors”.  We help authors understand their rights and options in the digital age.

Platforms: Print, e-book, Kindle, Nook, and more.

Contracts: Traditional Publishing Deals, Hybrid Publishing, Self-Publishing, Book Packaging

Agreements and Deals: From start to finish such as:

  • Literary Agent Contracts
  • Author – Agent Agreements
  • Collaboration Agreements
  • Non-Fiction Book Proposals
  • Ghost Writing Agreements
  • Permissions and Clearances (names, pictures, and biographical information)
  • Defamation, privacy and right of publicity rights issues
  • Publisher’s Releases
  • Interview releases
  • Royalty Agreements
  • Author-Publisher Agreements
  • Publishing Contracts
  • Publisher Disputes
  • Book Distributor Contracts
  • Printing Contracts
  • Screenplays
  • Self-Publishing Legal Issues
  • Interview Clearances
  • Book to Film Options
  • Book to Movie deals
  • Literary Executor Issues

Self-Publishing

Once frowned upon as the ugly step-sister of the publishing world, self-publishing in the digital age of “print on demand” (POD) is now viewed as a legitimate means for breaking out an important title that a traditional publisher would never consider. Authors can now use the many self publishing and print on demand services available on the internet and can easily publish in traditional print and in electronic format. With e-books are outselling paper based print books, the opportunities available to authors are tremendous.  We enjoy working with authors to make sure the legal side of their self-publishing ventures are in order and positioned for immediate and future success. We have self-published legal books ourselves and we have a first hand, boots-on-the-ground understanding of the entire process from start to finish.

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Clients

Our clients include a large number of New York Times bestselling authors together with many clients signed to major publishing houses, independent publishers, and those who successfully self-publish. We represent authors on all aspects of their writing business from the proposal to the publishing contract to the film adaptation of the book and beyond. We take great pride in positioning authors and creating a platform for authors to reap the benefit from their ancillary rights derived from their books such as book to film, book to graphic novel, book to television series, merchandising, and so on.

 

 

Just a few of Connie’s clients include:

Stephenie Meyer – The NYT Best Selling Twilight Series of Books, Films and Merchandising.

Shannon Mayer– a first class worldwide, prolific and mostly self-published author who has an amazing brand and wonderful books.

Allison DuBois – The Prime Time Emmy Award winning show “MEDIUM” and her NYT Bestselling Books.

Kerrie Droban – NYT Bestselling author of true crime stories. Click on her book covers for more information. Her books have also been featured on TV series.

Marshall Terrill -writes about sports stars and movie stars. If you are a fan of Steve McQueen, his books are especially for you.

Kelly Greenawalt and Amariah Rauscher wrote an award-winning children’s book series and got it published by Scholastic!

Judith Coopey – writes about the underground railroad and has interest from TV production companies to adapt to a series.

Tray Goodman – Your “go to” for all things Film, Video, sports video, commercials, sage advice and all around good guy.

Andrea Kamenca – Business woman, thought leader and expert.

Rick Shapiro/Innovative Healing Press – writes about How to kick cancer based on real life studies.

Connie H. Deutsch – visionary, healer and prolific author, Connie’s books & her FB group are inspirational.

Hale Dwoskin – NYT Bestselling Author of the world renown, The Sedona Method.

Sherry Ward – writes about the backstories of famous songs from the 60s and 70s.

Deborah McTiernan – writes books for kids AND adults with her Lily Noble series.

Linda Cobb aka The Queen of Clean – NYT Bestselling Author.

Kelly Schaeffer – writes about her life changing experience in a wheelchair and the wonders of her life.

Robert Sumner – Gun and hunting expert.

Daniel Hernandez – Biography published by a major publishing house.

Francisco “Pancho” Quintana – Biography based on his real life experience where he was the sole survivor of a catastrophic flood in a slot canyon.

Sharon Kether – a sensitive who writes about her life and her abilities.

NEWS & EVENTS

November 1, 2015

Connie J. Mableson will be teaching Entertainment Business Contracts at the Sandra Day-O’Connor School of Law at ASU in the Spring Semester. This is an upper level, 3.0 credit class.

October 1st, 2014

Effective October 1, 2014, our new offices are located at 1938 E. Osborn Road, Phoenix, AZ 85016.  The office is located in the former Wholesale Floors building, an iconic historical building conveniently located just off the SR51 and 202 highways and south of the Biltmore Area.

February 1, 2013

Ms. Mableson’s LinkedIn page is among the top 10% of all pages reviewed on LinkedIn.

January 1, 2013

Connie Mableson is again teaching “Entertainment Business Contracts” at the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law, Arizona State University. This is an upper class 3.0 credit hours class.

December 31, 2012

Rex Anderson had a busy year in and out of the office. He met a personal cycling goal of over 3000 miles on his bicycle in 2012 including the 491 mile weeklong RAGBRAI ride across Iowa with his bike club, Band of Cousins. Rex also continued his re-entry into the sport of triathlon including his first Olympic length triathlon in 23 years at Nathan’s Triathlon in Tempe, AZ.

October 18, 2012

Connie & Rex hosted over 50 people at the DAK Release Event. The DAK is a USB drive in the shape of a credit card on which is a patent pending application allowing the easy storage and retrieval of passwords and online account information in over 28 categories of internet accounts. See www.digitalassetadvisors.com.

October 15, 2012

Ms. Mableson was appointed as an observer and commentator to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law “Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets” Drafting Committee. This Committee will recommend changes to the Uniform Trust Code and other uniform laws regarding digital assets in Estates.

July 1, 2012:

We are pleased to announce that Jennifer LaFortune, Esq., LLM, has joined the firm as of counsel in online law. Ms. LaFortune has been a practicing attorney for over 10 years and has just received her LLM in online Law and E-commerce from the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law. Ms. LaFortune will work in the areas of online law, internet law, and E-commerce law.

June 1, 2012

Connie was selected as a mentor for GANGPLANK, a Chandler based incubator, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in downtown Phoenix for the summer, 2012.

June 1, 2012:

Connie and Rex have launched their new, patent-pending DAK device for easy password storage on a flash drive. An easy way to keep track of all your online accounts, user names and passwords. Check it out at www.digitalassetadvisors.com.

April 1, 2012

Rex Anderson was selected as the Winner of the 2012 Arizona Attorney Creative Arts Competition in Music.
http://www.azattorneymag-digital.com/azattorneymag/201205/#pg56. Some of his original songs can be found at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-for-his-age/id160050062.

January 30, 2012:

Ms. Mableson has authored 2 new books and the expected publishing date is February 14, 2012. The books are:

  • DMCA HANDBOOK™ for ISPs, WEBSITES, CONTENT CREATORS, and COPYRIGHT OWNERS
  • DMCA HANDBOOK™ for VIRTUAL WORLDS.

More information about these books and a discount code to purchase can be found on this website by clicking here.

dmca-handbookdmca-virtual-worlds2

November 5, 2011:

Connie Mableson is a panelist on the PROTECTING IP ON THE INTERNET PANEL at the 2nd Annual Conference on Sports and Entertainment Law sponsored by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University’s Sports and Entertainment Law Students Association.

November 1, 2011:

Ms. Mableson has re-activated her Washington State Bar membership and is now practicing in both Arizona and Washington states.

July 1, 2011:

Connie has launched a new Artist Management Company, Brooks Creative Management, LLC. The company is a talent agent (licensed with the State of Arizona) and management company and will be representing a wide variety of talent who can benefit from an agent and/or professional management.

May 29, 2011

Ms. Mableson will be presenting at the PHOENIXComicCon on May 29, 2011 regarding “Copyright for Writers.”

April 6, 2011:

Connie will interview Michael Connelly at a FREE event hosted by the Poisoned Pen at the Arizona Biltmore on April 6, 2011.  Connie will be speaking to Mike about The Lincoln Lawyer, adapting books to film, Mike’s new book, The Fifth Witness (out on April 5, 2011).  If you have any questions you would like asked, send me an email.

The evening is absolutely free. Doors open at 6 PM. Plus books for sale and Mike will sign.

March 7, 2011:

Congratulations to our client, BLADE, who just won GOLD and SILVER ADDY awards for their work with MINI USA & the Phoenix Suns.  Check out their winning spots at www.bladecuts.com.

March 3, 2011:

Connie & Rex are presenting a seminar entitled :

Digital Assets in Estates: This session will alert estate planning and probate attorneys to the possible existence of valuable digital assets when counseling clients.  Connie Mableson and Rex Anderson will provide an overview of the types of digital assets that can be easily overlooked by a personal representative or trustee if not specifically identified by the decedent at the State Bar of Arizona’s CLE entitled “Recent Developments in Estate Law.”

See the Article on Digital Estates and Assets in our “ARTICLES” section.

March 1, 2011:

Our client, SQUAREONE (www.squareone.com) has just delivered an iphone and ipod app to Warner Brothers called TAPPER WORLD TOUR.  Based on the arcade game, it features the artwork of Don Bluth.  SQUAREONE is a Phoenix based game development company.

February 5, 2011:

Our client, CeCe Peniston, has signed with West Swagg Music Group and is in the studio recording her next album. http://cecepeniston.com/

February 1, 2011:

Our client, Fervor Records, celebrates the release of its artists’ videos on MTV.com.  Electronic band, SuperStereo is climbing the charts.  Check them out. http://www.mtv.com/videos/super-stereo/618415/life-passed-me-by.jhtml#artist=3859368

January 15, 2011:

Connie is an Associate Faculty instructor at Sandra Day O’Connor Law School at Arizona State University.  This term she is teaching the 3.0 credit course, Entertainment Business Contracts.

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