Events

Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA) will hold a Halloween happy hour for Washington, DC area artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs. Costumes are not required, but there will be prizes for costume categories, including the scariest costume, the funniest costume, the most creative costume, the best homemade costume, and the most inspiring costume. For more […]

Independent songwriters, composers, and lyricists with questions about the MLC and digital audio mechanical royalties are invited to attend this interactive webinar to get answers to questions regarding MLC membership, the MLC Portal, and all the tools and resources available to help self-administered artists register their musical works data. For additional information and to register […]

The New York Chapter of the Copyright Society is hosting a program to discuss copyright cases such as the Ninth Circuit’s 2018 decision in Williams v. Gaye, which upheld a jury’s finding that the song “Blurred Lines” infringed copyright in Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up”—resulting in fears that an artist’s musical inspiration would be […]

The Law Office of Michael R. Klipper, the George Washington University Law School, and the Copyright Society will again sponsor the Christopher A. Meyer Memorial Lecture. Justin Hughes, who is the Honorable William Matthew Byrne Professor of Law at Loyola University Law School, and visiting Professor at Oxford University, will deliver a lecture titled Intellectual Property and […]

On September 26, the U.S. Copyright Office published a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) to further clarify policies and procedures surrounding royalty distribution and dispute resolution practices for royalties administered by the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). The SNPRM includes additional analysis on the application of the derivative works exception to the statutory termination right (“Exception”) in […]

The University of Texas Law School, in partnership with the Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, will host the 33rd Annual Entertainment Law Institute. The full speaker schedule can be found here, registration for the event is here, and information about the Institute’s November 8 Bootcamp program is here.

New York Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (NYVLA) is hosting an in-person fall benefit with music, networking, drinks, and hors d'oeuvres, to raise funds for the organization’s initiatives. The event, which is titled Cocktails for a Cause, will feature a raffle to win a dinner for two, along with two tickets for a Broadway musical, among other prizes. For […]

The National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA), Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA), and the George Mason University (GMU) Arts and Entertainment Advocacy Clinic will host a bi-annual seminar on trending legal issues, titled Artificial Intelligence and Copyright. In particular, the event hosts will discuss how AI is infringing on artists’ rights and the methods artists can use […]

The National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) published a notice of its next open meeting, which will be held via web conference. The committee plans to share and discuss updates from each working group’s goals and deliverables, including those of the NAIAC Law Enforcement Subcommittee. Additionally, the committee will deliberate on draft findings and recommendations. The final […]

ACT | The App Association is hosting a lunchtime discussion on generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and copyright law. The event will focus on the benefits and risks that GAI tools pose to creative and innovative industries through learning patterns from data inputs and prompts. It will also explore the intersections between AI and copyright law. […]

The Columbia University Science, Technology & Intellectual Property Law Program and Science and Technology Law Review are sponsoring a symposium titled Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives. The featured authors and commentators are Mark Lemley, Stanford University Law School; Paul Ohm, Georgetown University Law Center; Catherine Sharkey, New York University School of Law; […]

On September 26, the U.S. Copyright Office published a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) to further clarify policies and procedures surrounding royalty distribution and dispute resolution practices for royalties administered by the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). The SNPRM includes additional analysis on the application of the derivative works exception to the statutory termination right (“Exception”) in […]