Events

The Copyright Alliance will host a World IP Day panel discussion titled Copyright and Youth: Creating a Better Future, in keeping with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) 2022 theme of IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future. Panelists include Kick Lee of the Cincinnati Music Accelerator (CMA); Janet Hicks of Artists Rights Society (ARS); David Sohn of Copyright and Creativity; fine artist Mary Adelaide (Addie) Clark; Kim Tignor, Executive Director […]

The Copyright Alliance will host a World IP Day panel discussion titled Copyright and Youth: Creating a Better Future, in keeping with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) 2022 theme of IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future. Panelists include Kick Lee of the Cincinnati Music Accelerator (CMA), Janet Hicks of Artists Rights Society (ARS), David Sohn of Copyright and Creativity, fine artist Mary Adelaide (Addie) Clark, and Keith Kupferschmid of the Copyright […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) will host a two-hour program to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2022. “Under the theme of IP for a Better Future: Young Innovators, the program will include a fireside chat USPTO, WIPO, and USCO […]

The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) Annual Conference will be held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, for the first time since 2019. The event will “bring together IP enforcement experts from top brands, service providers, and government and industry partners in small group workshops, as well as general plenary sessions.” Additional information and registration […]

The Authors Guild is hosting a webinar to help writers “get engaged in a writing community to find the feedback and encouragement from colleagues.” The discussion will also provide guidance “on how to find a writing group, how to identify a workshop that will be worth your time, how to manage the obligations of literary […]

In honor of World IP Day, California Lawyers for the Arts will host a Patent Workshop led by Marc Brown, who is an attorney and USC Gould School of Law lecturer on Patent Drafting and Prosecution For additional information and registration, please click here and questions about the event can be directed to clinics@calawyersforthearts.org.

George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School’s Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2)will host a discussion with tech executive, attorney, and investor Andrew Byrnes regarding “the path from developing innovative ideas to achieving broad impact, including key legal issues, and business imperatives.” In addition, Byrnes will offer insights on leadership, building high-functioning teams, engaging policymakers, […]

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland and online. “EIFL participates in discussions on limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives, education and research, and a proposed treaty for the protection of broadcast organizations.” During the last session, […]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the next Standing Committee meeting on Copyright and Related Rights. For additional information, including registration and webcasting details, please click here.

During this event, attendees “will explore how the competition for global markets has shifted and how today’s decisions can impact our ability to achieve sustainable, durable, and inclusive growth, creating jobs and prosperity.” Special guests include President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador and President Macky Sall of Senegal. Speakers, including heads of state, senior officials, and […]

With free and open source software being ubiquitous, and since software developers “regularly leverage open source components to design proprietary code, and seek opportunities to contribute to the open source community,” this panel will discuss due diligence regarding open source technology, “including coordinating legal and technical due diligence and strategies for evaluating and correcting open […]

The Copyright Alliance, Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA), in partnership with the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), will host a panel titled Learn About the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) to answer attendee questions, including: what is the reason the Copyright Claims Board was created?, where is the CCB located?, how does the CCB work and who staffs […]