| Date/Time : |
11/05/09
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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| Location : | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Organizer : | Kristine Werlinich |
| Address : | Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor San Francisco California 94111 |
| Description : | |
Thursday, November 5, 2009
6:00 p.m.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
Please join UCLA Law Bay Area alumni for a discussion with
Professor Doug Lichtman
“Fair Use Fictions”
A large number of high-profile copyright cases in the end boil down to a public policy fight over the proper scope of copyright's fair use doctrine. Did Google infringe copyright when it scanned books for its Book Search project? Did Shepard Fairey cross the line with his pilfered but transformed Obama image? Is RDR in the wrong due to its unauthorized, comprehensive encyclopedia of all things Harry Potter? In this talk, Professor Lichtman will think through the issues behind these and other in-the-news cases, working first to identify the fictions that dominate the public fair use conversation and then to articulate the truths that should replace them.
One hour of general MCLE credit available
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
RSVP (310) 794-5296 oralum@law.ucla.edu
(Building access requires RSVP)
