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Sustaining and Empowering the Creative Community Through Copyright
April 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Each year on April 26, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) organizes a global World IP Day (WIPD) celebration to help foster a greater understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) rights. For WIPD 2024, the Copyright Alliance, along with our Community Partners and Organizations, will host a panel via Zoom, titled Sustaining and Empowering the Creative Community Through Copyright. Our panel is in keeping with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) 2024 theme, IP and the SDGs: Building Our Common Future with Innovation and Creativity. During the event, which will be held via Zoom on April 23 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT, we will discuss how creators can meet their goals today while helping to ensure that tomorrow’s creative community is sustained through job growth, a strong creative economy, and continued growth of the arts, all of which are perpetuated through copyright protections. The event will be free and open to the public.
Panel Introductions
- Keith Kupferschmid (CEO, Copyright Alliance)
Opening Remarks
- Miriam Lord (Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education, U.S. Copyright Office)
Moderator
- Maribel Quezada Smith (Founder, BIPOC Podcast Creators and Video/Podcast Producer)
Panelists
- Bijou Mgbojikwe (Senior Policy Counsel, Entertainment Software Association)
- Eric Schwartz (Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp and Founding Director and Vice Chair, National Film Preservation Foundation)
- Mary Rasenberger (CEO, Authors Guild)
- Taura Stinson (Academy Award Nominated Songwriter, Composer, Producer, and Author)
Cohosts
- Arts & Business Council Boston
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville
- BIPOC Podcast Creators
- Black Girl Film School
- California Lawyers for the Arts
- Carolina Lawyers for the Arts and Entertainment
- Chicago Lawyers for the Creative Arts
- Colorado Attorneys for the Arts
- Colorado Business Committee for the Arts
- Dade Legal Aid
- Georgia Lawyers for the Arts
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
- National Association of Voice Actors
- Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
- St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts
- The Ella Project
- Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA)
- VLA New York
- Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts