Keith Kupferschmid – Chief Executive Officer
Keith Kupferschmid is President and CEO of the Copyright Alliance, a position he has held since 2015. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Copyright Alliance’s operations—including strategy, government affairs, communications, membership, and liaising with boards and committees.
Kupferschmid’s extensive work on the Hill has contributed to modernizing copyright law, culminating in the enactment of the Music Modernization Act (MMA), the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act), and the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act (PLSA), among others. He has also raised the profile of the Copyright Alliance within the creator community and strived to garner additional rights and protections for creators across the country through education, advocacy initiatives, and speaking opportunities. Kupferschmid has testified before Congress and various federal and state government agencies on key copyright issues, has held leadership positions in the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), serves on the boards of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA) and the U.S. Intellectual Property Alliance (USIPA), and was selected to be a member of the Library of Congress’ Copyright Public Modernization Committee (CPMC).
Before joining the Copyright Alliance, Kupferschmid served as the General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) for 16 years. Prior to that, he worked at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; and the U.S. Copyright Office.
Blogs Authored By Keith Kupferschmid
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Copyright Chaos in California: Two AI Cases, Two Days Apart, Two Very Different Decisions
Over the past few years, we have seen the number of AI training copyright infringement/fair use court cases steadily climb and waited with great anticipation for the day when decisions in these cases started to be handed down. In February, we got our first decision on AI training and fair use when the district court…
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ICYMI: AI-Related Copyright Issues Heat Up at End of June
That heat wave we recently experienced in DC was brutal—it seems like it’s all everyone was talking about (besides the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill). But the weather was not the only thing that was scorchingly hot. Over the past week or so, cases and other issues related to the impact of AI on copyright…
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Kadrey v. Meta Decision: Did Meta Just Win the Battle, But Lose the War?
Since Judge Chhabria of the Northern District of California issued his decision in the Kadrey v. Meta case on Wednesday, June 25, there have been a lot of articles about how Meta “won the case.” These articles don’t do justice to the true impact of the actual decision in the case—most of them just scratch…
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Copyright in Congress: 2024 Year in Review
As usual, Congress considered a host of copyright issues in 2024. Most of these issues fall into one of three buckets: (1) Artificial Intelligence (AI); (2) Piracy; or (3) U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) Modernization. Several important copyright issues fall outside these areas that Congress addressed. Below we summarize these Congressional activities and look into our…
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Insights from Court Orders in AI Copyright Infringement Cases
There are now well over thirty lawsuits that have been filed by copyright owners in U.S. federal court against AI companies, accusing them of direct copyright infringement for using copyrighted works without authorization to develop their AI models.[1] Many of the cases also include claims for unauthorized removal or alteration of copyright management information (also…
