Events

Are you an independent songwriter? This webinar hosted by The MLC “will provide step-by-step instructions on how you can Connect to Collect!” Topics that will be covered include: How to Sign Up with The MLC, Collecting All of Your U.S. Digital Mechanical Royalties, How The MLC Supports Songwriters, and more. Registration is now closed.

This World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) webinar “will feature multi-territorial licensing practices for musical works for digital music services, based on the experience of SACEM, a French Collective Management Organization (CMO) operating in the music field.” Speakers include Caroline Champarnaud, Director of International, Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM); and Habib Achour, […]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is hosting a webinar to present an overview of WIPO’s general activities, as well as to share information about Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights. Additional information and registration are available here.

The Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) and the California Copyright Conference (CCC) present their sixth Music Industry Toolbox—"a unique event created for music publishers, record companies, production music libraries/producers, managers, attorneys, and artists, but should be of interest to all music industry professionals.” The event “features leading firms in music management software and services […]

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) is hosting session one of its IP for the People series, which will focus on offering attendees an explanation of what intellectual property rights are; real-world examples of how they come up in your business ideas and creative processes; an interview with an author who will share how […]

When music is used on digital music services, more than one type of royalty is generated and paid to creators. Are you collecting all of the royalties you should be? Understanding the types of royalties generated and how to collect them can be difficult because it is complex. At The MLC, we’ve mapped it out […]

This webinar, titled Taking the Initiative on IP Protection, is the second in a series hosted by the Washington Legal Foundation. It features Karyn Temple, Senior EVP and Global General Counsel, Motion Picture Association; and Jan van Voorn, EVP and Chief of Global Content Protection, Motion Picture Association, who will “delve into the motion picture industry’s comprehensive […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting a free event to share resources with aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs titled the Hispanic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, which is hosted by the USPTO Office of Innovation Outreach. The event is designed to enable experienced innovators to share how they brought their ideas to the marketplace, how […]

On October 12 at 2 p.m. ET at Mondo.NYC, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will host a series of panels titled Issues Facing the Modern Music Business in 2022. RIAA will close the day's panels with a keynote conversation featuring Mitch Glazier, RIAA CEO; Waleed Diab, Global Head of Recorded Music Business Development, YouTube; and […]

As part of the American University Washington College of Law series, Intellectual Property (IP) and the Supreme Court, there will be a discussion by selected amici who will offer post-argument reflections on the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmithcase, which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear earlier that day. For additional information and to register, please click here.

As part of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s series on E-commerce for Native American Artists & Craftspeople, it will host a webinar focused on “protecting businesses through use of intellectual property rights and the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.” The session will include a discussion about the new Copyright Claims Board and the benefits it […]

The Copyright Alliance will join RightsClick to host a free webinar for creators. The presentation, which will focus on how creators can use RightsClick to take control of their copyrights, will include a high-level RightsClick demo and a Q&A. Copyright Alliance Creator Members who attend will be entered into a raffle to win four free months of RightsClick, followed […]

The U.S. Intellectual Property Alliance (USIPA) will hold its Annual Meeting in Atlanta from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET on October 20. The meeting will feature IP thought leaders, including Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Kathi Vidal (keynote); USIPA Chair and CEO AT&T […]

The Hudson Institute is hosting a panel event to discuss how well the copyright system serves musicians today during the digital age, which presents new and unique challenges to music creators. Speakers include Benjamin Bierman, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and Associate Professor of Music; Amanda Colleen Williams, owner, Songpreneurs LLC; and David Lowery, performer, songwriter, and senior […]

The Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance (GIPA) is hosting an IP dinner following the USIPA Annual Meeting to celebrate the launch of the Global IP Alliance and to celebrate leadership within the IP ecosystem. Registration is now closed.

Titled Under PRESSure—Legal Protections, Regulations and the Future of Press Publishing, this year’s Kernochan Center symposium “will look at why the press is floundering, whether the 2019 EU Copyright Directive's sui generis IP right for press publishers offers an appropriate response to save the industry, and whether legislators should look to copyright or antitrust law for a solution.” […]

In recent years, many right-to-repair bills have been introduced in state legislatures and Congress, which “mandate that consumers be given access to all materials to repair their products, including access to computer code and other copyrighted works.” Participants in this Hudson Institute panel will discuss the right-to-repair movement and how IP rights have been central […]

The Northern California Chapter of the Copyright Society is hosting a webinar on Parody in Copyright and Trademark Law. Speakers include Alfred (Fred) C. Yen, Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School; Lincoln Bandlow, an attorney whose practice focuses on media, First Amendment, intellectual property and other entertainment-related litigation matters; and Preetha Chakrabarti, […]