Harvey Harrison

Harvey E Harrison

Professional Experience:

Catalyst For The Arts, Inc., President/Founder, 1996- present. (Convergence of all non-law professional activities in one enterprise.)

Burning Shorts, Publisher/Founder, www.burningshorts.com, 2006-present. (Premier ezine present and review quality original online video arts and entertainment.)

Liquid Knowledge, Original System of Knowledge Management, Creator/Practitioner, 2002-present. (Official Visitor and Presenter, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, “Liquid Knowledge: An Overview”, to the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and the Stanford University Institute for International Studies Global Knowledge Design Laboratory and Rapid Enterprise Design Project, Stanford, Palo Alto, California, July 2002.)

UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Lecturer, 2000-2009.

Jim Preminger Agency, Literary and Software Agent, 1989- 1996. (Agency represented multiple Academy Award and Emmy Recipient writers as well as digital media legends Robyn and Rand Miller, creators of Myst/Riven, then the most successful computer game in world and acknowledged as pantheon creative masterpiece.)

Columbia Pictures Television/TriStar Television, Vice President, Business Affairs, 1987-1988. (Recognized for negotiating, documenting, and obtaining execution of more than 100 major television deals/agreements in a period of three months.)

TMS Entertainment, Inc., President, Sales, 1984-1986. (For legendary Japanese animation company, established completely new US Division, sold, produced more than 190 series episodes with revenues of $40 million [in mid-1980s $s]

Sy Fischer Company/Taft Entertainment, Business Affairs, Packaging, Literary and Software Agent, 1979-1984. (Clients included companies like Hanna-Barbera and individuals like Garry Marshall.) Dern, Mason and Floum, Entertainment Attorney, 1977-1979.

Education

Stanford Law School, J.D. 1977. (Legal Certifications: Admitted to practice Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal, United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, Atlanta, Georgia. Active member California State Bar. Admitted to practice Federal District Court, Central District of California.)

Yale College, B.A. (Philosophy) 1973; Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.

Publications

More than twenty published articles in subjects described above. Many more speaking presentations to professional and other audiences. See Curriculum Vitae below

Curriculum Vitae

Harvey E. Harrison, JD
www.catalystforthearts.com
www.LiquidKnowledge.info

Academic and Professional Activities and Appointments

1996-present, Founder, President, Catalyst For The Arts, Inc., www.catalystforthearts.com.
2010-present, Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Juvenile Courts Task Force.
2000-2009 Lecturer, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.2006-present, Founder, Publisher, Editor, Burning Shorts, www.burningshorts.com, online video journal of digital literature.
2007-2008, Philosophy and Digital Literature Editor, Exterminating Angel Press, www.exterminatingangel.com.
2005-2006 Teacher, Life Skills, Juvenile Facility, Ventura County, Oxnard, California.
2004-2005 Ventura County Deputy Public Defender (pro bono attorney).
2004 Advisory Panel, Selection Committee, Position of Executive Director, Ventura County Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA).
2003 Delegate of the Los Angeles County Bar Association to the Conference of Delegates of the California Bar Associations.
2002 Official Visitor, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (see also Presentations below).
2002 Lecturer, Laguna College of Art and Design.
1999-2002 Board Member, Multimedia Program Advisory Board, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California.

Legal Education

Stanford Law School, J.D. 1977.

Undergraduate Education

Yale College, B.A. (Philosophy) 1973; Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.

Major Appellate Litigation

Attorney for Appellant Charles J. Liteky in case of United States versus Charles J. Liteky, heard by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Atlanta, Georgia 2000-2001. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Liteky and http://www.mishalov.com/Liteky.html.

Legal Certifications

Admitted to practice Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal, United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, Atlanta, Georgia.
Active member California State Bar.
Admitted to practice Federal District Court, Central District of California.

Professional Experience

Publisher, Burning Shorts, www.burningshorts.com, 2006-present.
President, Liquid Knowledge, Inc. 2002-present.
President, Catalyst Agency 1996- present.
Literary and Software Agent, Jim Preminger Agency 1989- 1996.
Vice President, Business Affairs, Columbia Pictures Television/TriStar Television 1987-1988.
President, Sales/ Consultant. TMS Entertainment, Inc. 1984-1986.
Business Affairs, Packaging, Literary and Software Agent, Sy Fischer Company/Taft Entertainment 1979-1984.
Entertainment Attorney, Dern, Mason and Floum 1977-1979.

Membership in Professional Associations

Visual Effects Society
Beverly Hills Bar Association.
Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Electronic Literature Organization, www.eliterature.org.

Associations

Member, the Working Group on Human Complex Systems at UCLA, which is developing an undergraduate minor and a graduate specialization.
Member, the Working Group on Awe-inspiring Experiences at UCLA funded by the Templeton Foundation (focusing on the connection of religion and neuroscience).
National Conference of Viet Nam Veteran Ministers (non veteran/non clergy member).
Founding Member of the Committee for the Arts of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Books and Articles (partial list)

“Answering Harvard”, Exterminating Angel Press, www.exterminatingangel.com. Essay, 2007.
“For R”, Exterminating Angel Press, www.exterminatingangel.com. Essay, 2007.
“For the Sad Inuit”, Exterminating Angel Press, www.exterminatingangel.com. Essay, 2007.
“Diary of a Dad”, Exterminating Angel Press, www.exterminatingangel.com. Essay, 2007.
Burning Shorts, www.burningshorts.com, online video literary journal, founded 2006.
“The Chunk”, originally published at the Directory of the Electronic Literature Organization, www.eliterature.org. Electronic fiction. May, 2003.
“Uriah”, originally published at the Directory of the Electronic Literature Organization, www.eliterature.org. Electronic fiction. April, 2003.
For The Creative Mind, presented and published by Liquid Knowledge, Inc. Text for professional education art curricula and for general readership; www.liquidknowledge.info, 2002.
“Don’t Lose Our Minds: The Need To Protect Academic Property”, Journal of the Intellectual Property Section, State Bar of California, 2002.
“Closing Argument: Exclusivity Clauses And Artistic Freedom”, Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, April, 1999.
“Looking For Leo . . . And Beyond”, International Interactive Communications Society National Website, Professional Development Section Feature Article, October 1998.
“A Declaration of Independence: Artistic Freedom, Exclusivity In The Entertainment Industry, and California Law,” in Writer’s Handbook, published by California Lawyers For The Arts, Santa Monica (1997).
“Act, React, Interact: The Experiment in Interactive Aesthetics,” 1997 at http://www.wga.org and presented at Special Convergence Day at The Writers Guild, May 17, 1997.
“Agents: The Year in Review”, Animation Magazine, January 1997.
“Doctor James To The Emergency Room: An Invitation To Applied Philosophy,” attachment to “Act, React, Interact: The Experiment In Interactive Aesthetics,” above and available from The Writers Guild or the author, March 1997.
“Doctor James To The Board Of Directors Meeting: Outline Of An Experiment In Applied Philosophy,” attachment to “Act, React, Interact: The Experiment In Interactive Aesthetics,” above and available from The Writers Guild or the author, March 1997.
“Ethics and Negotiation: The Search for Value and Freedom in Hollywood,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol.7 no.1 (1992).
“The Shape of Things to Come An Essay on Interactive Aesthetics,” Los Angeles County Bar Association Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Section, New Technologies 101: A Practical Approach for Entertainment Lawyers, ed. Peter L. Kaufman & Peter C. Swarth (1992).
“Toward the Alliance Between Interactive Technologies and Hollywood,” published in the Microsoft CD-ROM Yearbook, 1989-1990.
“Ethics and Negotiation: A Work in Progress,” Syllabus of the 1992 UCLA Entertainment Symposium (UCLA Law School).

Presentations (All presentations in the Los Angeles Area, unless otherwise noted.)

“Special Education Law And The Juvenile Probation Client”, Ventura County Probation Department, Ventura, California, March 23, 2005.
“Overview of Special Education Law”, Santa Barbara Public Defender, Santa Barbara, California, February 3, 2005.
“The Commodification of Education”, “Playing, Gaming, Learning”, Cyberspace UCLA Working Group, UCLA, October 17, 2003.
“Copyright And Open Source Round Table”, e(x)literature: Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of Electronic Literature, April 3-4, 2003, University of California, Santa Barbara, Conference sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization and the digital Cultures Project.
“Dont’ Lose Our Minds: The Need To Protect Academic Property”, to Cyberspace UCLA Working Group, UCLA, January 17, 2003.
“Digital Media In The ‘Natural’ Community”, Special Guest Speaker, Virtual Communication Acceleration Conference, Guadalupe, California, January 15, 2003.
“Liquid Knowledge: An Overview”, to the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and the Stanford University Institute for International Studies Global Knowledge Design Laboratory and Rapid Enterprise Design Project, Stanford, Palo Alto, California, July 2002.
“Twenty-first Century Technology, Stone Age Anthropology: What Online Games Can Teach Us About Networked Social Interaction”, Chair, Great Ideas Seminar, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance, May 23, 2002.
“The Social Life of Education”, Chair, Great Ideas in the Social Sciences Seminar, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance, April 4, 2002.
“As Good As It Gets to American Psycho: Hollywood’s Fascination with Psychopathology” UCLA’s Fifth Annual Review of Psychiatry. October 22, 2000.
“How Existing Studios Successfully Brand For The Web”, moderator and panelist, Animation Internet Component, The World Animation Celebration. June 2, 2000.
“TV And The Internet”, moderator and panelist, International Business Conference For Television Animation at The World Animation Celebration. June 1, 2000.
“Selling, Dealing, And Creating: The Help From Agents And Lawyers”, moderator and panelist, Sixth Annual Animation Expo, presented by International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood. March 6, 1999.
“Education And Digital Mass Media”, lecture to Education Group of the International Interactive Communications Society, Los Angeles Chapter. July 21, 1998.
“Mission Valencia”, lecture to advanced animation class, California Institute Of The Arts, Valencia, California. March 11, 1998.
“How Do The Major Studios Achieve Success In The Theatrical Marketplace?”, moderator and panelist, World Summit For Feature Films And Visual Effects, World Animation Celebration. February 17, 1998.
“A Declaration Of Independence – The Call For Legislative Abolition Of Most Exclusivity Provisions In Employment Agreements In The Entertainment Industry”, lecture, Los Angeles Copyright Society. October 8, 1997.
“New Media Options And Concerns”, panelist, California Lawyers For The Arts’ Writer’s Seminar. June 21, 1997.
“Special Convergence Day At The Writers Guild”, panelist, Writers Guild Of America. May 17, 1997.
International Business Conference For Television Animation, Inaugural Host of Conference and Panel Moderator, First World Animation Celebration, Pasadena, California. March 25 and 26, 1997.
“Comics Today: They’re Not Just Funny Books”, lecturer, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Presentation. June 3, 1995.
“Financing And Producing Interactive Entertainment,” panelist, Eighteenth Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium, presented by the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Entertainment Symposium Advisory Committee. February 5, 1994.
New Technologies 101: A Practical Approach For Entertainment Attorneys”, lecturer, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Sections. November 14, 1992.
Meeting of Society Of Philosophers At Work In The World Group, “Business Ethics”, presenter, Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA. March 29, 1991.
Meeting of Society Of Philosophers At Work In The World Group, “Business Ethics”, presenter, Sixty-Third Annual Meeting, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, Oakland, CA. March 24, 1989.