Events

On February 23, The MLC will celebrate Black History Month by hosting a “special Instagram Live series, showcasing a trio of African American music industry entrepreneurs who are currently innovating […]

The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) and the Library of Congress (LOC) will hold a second meeting of the Copyright Public Modernization Committee (CPMC). The meeting will feature remarks from Register of […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will host a virtual event to celebrate the release of the tenth edition of its international IP Index, titled Compete for Tomorrow. For the past ten years, […]

The Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) is hosting a Music Publishing Update with National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) CEO David Israelite. AIMP members will receive a Zoom invitation directly and can […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting a program for current and aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs titled 2022 Black Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program: Invest in Ideas (Part Two). Attendees will […]

This webinar, hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will focus on copyright infrastructure and “feature a number of speakers from the public and private sectors on a range […]

This year, the 4th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Tech Law Summit and 19th Annual Intellectual Property (IP) and Social Justice CLE Seminar will be held together, enabling attendees to […]

On February 4, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding its regulations related to remitter payments for Office services and requirements for to deposit account requirements. The Office notes that the proposed rules consolidate regulatory provisions about payment options and reflect current Office practices regarding payment methods. Comments are due March 7.

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI), which is “America’s highest honor for technological achievement and innovation,” will be presented by the President of the United States at a special White House ceremony. In advance of this presentation, the NMTI staff “will hold a free informational webinar on the award and the nomination process, to […]

ALAI and the International Chapter of the Copyright Society will host a session titled Kraftwerk, Hip-hop, Prince, & Warhol: European and U.S. Approaches to Sound Sampling and Appropriation Art to explore questions such as “to what extent does artistic license create an exception to copyright?” It will also “consider a landmark European case on music sampling involving […]

The U.S. Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have been hosting “a year-long virtual roundtable series on copyright education for youth enrolled in primary and secondary schools” […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting the second in a series of three Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposiums during the month of March, titled Trends and Opportunities. The event will feature Tené Dolphin, Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, and Adji Fatou Diagne, Ph.D., Economist, U.S. Census Bureau, who will speak about “the economic […]