Kevin Madigan – SVP, Policy and Government Affairs
Kevin Madigan is SVP, Policy and Government Affairs at the Copyright Alliance. Kevin joined the Copyright Alliance in early 2020 after four years at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Serving most recently as CPIP’s Deputy Director, Kevin conducted academic and policy work across all areas of intellectual property law.
Kevin’s work in copyright includes drafting amicus briefs, regulatory comments, policy papers, and essays on diverse topics such as artificial intelligence, online piracy and enforcement, anticircumvention, standard technical measures, sovereign immunity, licensing, and Copyright Office modernization. He has authored law review articles on patent and trade secret policy issues, and he blogs at mistercopyright.org. In addition to being a lawyer and advocate for the rights of creators, Kevin is a visual artist, musician, and registered copyright owner.
Kevin holds a B.A. from Boston College, a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from George Washington University Law School. He is admitted to practice law in Maryland and Washington, DC.
Blogs Authored By Kevin Madigan
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Hearing Confirms Congress is Moving Ahead with Legislation to Protect Creators Against Piracy and Digital Replicas
On June 30, the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet held a hearing titled A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet, which covered a spectrum of pressing copyright and creator rights issues from generative AI to digital replicas to foreign based piracy. While the scope of the hearing was…
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ASTM v. UpCodes is a Troubling Misapplication of Warhol’s Transformative Use Clarifications
In early April, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a denial of a preliminary injunction sought by the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) in its lawsuit against an online platform, UpCodes, over the unauthorized publication of ASTM’s copyrighted standards. Finding that UpCodes’ publication of ASTM’s standards to “enhance public access” to the standards was…
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Late Night Post Could Reflect AI’s Ebbing Fortunes in the Administration
On February 27, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael took to X to voice his frustration with Anthropic due to disagreements between the US military and the AI company over government use of its technology. In the since deleted post, Michael accuses Anthropic of attempting to prevent government employees from accessing public…
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AI Copyright Lawsuit Developments in 2025: A Year in Review
The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models over the past few years has given rise to now over 70 infringement lawsuits by copyright owners against AI companies. While the cases are in different stages of litigation, there were several big developments—including orders on summary judgment, high-profile settlements, and dozens of new cases filed—in…
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Amicus Briefs in ‘Thomson Reuters v. Ross’ Case Urge Application of Established Standards of Copyrightability, Fair Use
In late November, a diverse group of copyright owners, legal and economic scholars, and AI researchers submitted amicus briefs in support of Thomson Reuters (TR) in its ongoing infringement case against ROSS Intelligence. The case is currently before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, where ROSS has challenged a lower court decision confirming that TR’s…
