Convening the foremost copyright scholars, practitioners, and industry leaders on emerging and pressing issues within copyright law — this year’s symposium focuses on AUTHORSHIP. Panelists will address authorship and AI, community authors and cultural property, and more.

Keynote by Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. 

Co-hosted with the McCarthy Institute, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Subject to change. Panel descriptions follow.

8:45 a.m. — Welcome by Mark P. McKenna, Vice Dean and Professor, UCLA School of Law, with Michael Waterstone, Dean of UCLA School of Law and David Franklyn, Executive Director of the McCarthy Institute

9 a.m. — Keynote by Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office, with introduction by Douglas Sylvester, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

10 a.m. — Panel: Corporate Authorship

11:15 a.m. — Break

11:30 a.m. — Panel: Authorship after Warhol

12:45 p.m. — Lunch

1:45 p.m. — Panel: Community Authors and Cultural Property 

3:00 p.m. — Break

3:15 p.m. — Panel: AI and Authorship

Reception to follow

KEYNOTE REMARKS

• Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office
• Moderator: Douglas Sylvester, Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.00 Hours of MCLE Credit.

PANELS

CORPORATE AUTHORSHIP, featuring

• Moderator: David Nimmer, Of Counsel - Irell & Manella LLP
• Paige Adamczyk, CHA Law Ethics - Attorney
• Betty An (Law '13), NBCUniversal  - VP, Intellectual Property 
• Jonathan Anschell, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Mattel, Inc.; UCLA lecturer in law
• James Dowd, Partner - WilmerHale LLP
• John Paul Oleksiuk, Partner, Copyright and Trademark Litigator - Cooley

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

AUTHORSHIP AFTER WARHOL, featuring

• Moderator: Eugene Volokh, UCLA Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law
• Elana Nightingale Dawson, Partner - Copyright, Litigation and Trial, and Technology - Latham & Watkins
• Bobby Ghajar, Intellectual Property Litigation Partner - Cooley
• Christopher Jon Sprigman, New York University Murray, and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law
• Haochen Sun,  Faculty of Law - University of Hong Kong 
• Timothy Yoo, Partner - Bird Marella

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

COMMUNITY AUTHORS AND CULTURAL PROPERTY

• Moderator: Trevor Reed, ASU Sandra Day O'Connor Professor of Law
• Aman Gebru, University of Houston Law -  Assistant Professor 
• J. Osei-Tutu, FIU College of Law - Associate Dean, Professor of Law 
• Aaron Jones, Tulalip Tribe of Washington
• Mitch Stoltz, Electronic Frontier Foundation - IP Litigation Director 
• Yuanxiao Xu, Counsel - Creative Commons

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

AI and AUTHORSHIP, featuring

• Moderator: Gary Marchant, ASU Regents and Foundation Professor of Law
• Nathaniel Bach, Partner - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
• Ian Ballon, Intellectual property and internet litigator - Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Danielle W. Bulger, Associate - ArentFox Schiff LLP 
• Angela Dunning, Partner - Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Krishna Sood, Microsoft - Assistant General Counsel and IP group senior leader 

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

READING MATERIALS 

• Richard Prince, Instagram, and Authorship in a Digital World

• 20-842 - AMO Development, LLC et al v. Alcon Vision LLC, et al

• Pooh-Poohing Copyright Law’s “Inalienable” Termination Rights

• Cultural IP vs. Commercial IP

• Columbia Pictures v. George Gallo

• Hill v. MGM

• Horror Inc v. Miller

• Waite v. UMG Recordings, INC.

• Marvel Characters INC. v. Kirby

• OpenAI Seeks to Dismiss Parts of The New York Times’s Lawsuit

• Voice actors and generative AI: Legal challenges and emerging protections

• Addtl. Reading Materials

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