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Alex Cadena


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Alex Cadena works in the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT) on copyright, trademark, and other entertainment matters. She has several years' experience in media and creative industries on both coasts. Before joining DWT, she interned with the legal team at the Writers Guild of America West, worked with 20th Television's business affairs group, and launched an independent production company in New York. She is passionate about championing early-career artists and their work. 

Alex counsels and litigates a wide range of legal issues for DWT's media and entertainment clients, including copyright and trademark law, First Amendment, defamation, right of publicity, and advertising. Alex's legal experience also extends to litigating on behalf of journalists in both state and federal public records lawsuits. Alex is committed to pro bono and has previously worked as a legal translator and interpreter with the Tahirih Justice Center, Human Rights First, and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND). 

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Location: Hybrid, virtual on Zoom or in-person at IDA Office in Los Angeles

Documentary filmmakers are often navigating complex legal terrain by the very nature of our work. In the current political climate and with the rise of fascism around the world, it can be difficult to know how to protect your work, your collaborators, your subject, and your rights. At the same time, to change the grim reality of our current times, we need documentaries that break boundaries, take risks, and defy censorship, backlash, and threats they might face, not if but when they speak up. How can you safeguard your

Location: Hybrid, virtual on Zoom or in-person at IDA Office in Los Angeles

In today’s rapidly evolving political and technological landscape, a legal doctrine as established as fair use, which remains as crucial to documentary filmmakers as the day it was introduced, is not safe from change. As a documentary filmmaker, producer, or professional, you are probably familiar with the basics of fair use. But in the age of AI and ever-savvy corporations and even governments that constantly try to shift the boundaries of libel, copyright infringement, and more, how do we make sense of what is and is