Christopher J. Crane

Entertainment Attorney

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 Christopher J. Crane is a legal and business affairs executive with more than 20 years experience drafting and negotiating agreements in the publishing, museum, sports and live entertainment industries. Currently he is an Attorney/Advisor to the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC.). He has previously been employed as In House Counsel to Dragone Entertainment (La Louviere, Belgium), Associate General Counsel for Premier Exhibitions (Atlanta, GA) and Manager of Legal and Business Affairs for Madison Square Garden (NY, NY).

Mr. Crane is also an Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland’s Carey Law Center (Baltimore, MD) and has taught previously at NOVA Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center (Davie, FL). In the 1990’s Mr. Crane founded Author’s Alliance, a literary agency which negotiated and sold the publishing rights to The Gift of Dyslexia and other non-fiction works.