Category Events

Copyright and Technology 2022 Conference: Panel Added

We are adding a fourth panel to the lineup at our upcoming conference on Tuesday September 13 at Fordham Law School in NYC, a panel on Standard Technical Measures for content identification. We’re still looking for moderators and speakers for all panels, so if you’re interested, please send me an email indicating your name, affiliation, panel of […]

Copyright and Technology 2022 Conference Panel Lineup

As I announced a couple of weeks ago, the Copyright and Technology Conference will be back at Fordham Law School in New York City on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. The conference will be hybrid, with both in-person and virtual attendance possible. (Stay tuned for info on social activities for those who attend in person.) Here are […]

Announcing the Copyright and Technology 2022 Conference — In Person!

I’ve been quiet here for a long time, because I’ve been busily at work with Howie Singer on our forthcoming book Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Disrupted the Music Industry. The manuscript is almost ready to be handed off to Oxford University Press for production and publication. But in the nearer term, I am […]

Conference Coming Up January 15; Program Changes

A reminder that our eleventh annual Copyright and Technology Conference is coming up on Wednesday, January 15 at Fordham Law School in NYC, co-produced by the Copyright Society of the USA and sponsored by the good folks at the Fordham Intellectual Property Institute. Online registration is still available. I’d like to announce a couple of […]

EU High Court Rules Against Digital Resale; We’ll Talk About This at the Conference

This week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a landmark ruling that digitally downloaded files are not subject to exhaustion (the EU equivalent of first sale in U.S. law). This means that consumers don’t have the right to resell (or give away, lend, or rent) ebooks and other digital files. This […]

Copyright Office to Give Updates at January Conference

The U.S. Copyright Office has been involved in two important initiatives related to copyright and technology — and they’re going to talk about them at our next conference in NYC on January 16. Last month the USCO completed its latest rulemaking on exemptions to the law prohibiting circumvention of technical protection measures — e.g., hacks […]

Copyright and Technology 2019: Agenda Published, Registration Available

The agenda for Copyright and Technology 2019 is now published, and registration is live. Thanks once again to the Copyright Society of the USA and Jaybird Communications for extending their partnership to what will be our tenth annual conference. We have added a very exciting session to the morning lineup: a presentation on the Open […]

Copyright and Technology 2019: Keynote Speaker; Speaking Proposals Open

We have a keynote speaker and a list of session topics for Copyright and Technology 2019, our tenth annual conference, which will take place on Wednesday, January 16 at Fordham Law School in NYC, co-produced with the good folks at the Copyright Society of the USA and sponsored by the Fordham IP Institute. I am thrilled […]

Announcing the Copyright and Technology 2019 Conference

How time flies: our next Copyright and Technology Conference will be our tenth. I’m pleased to announce that the date and venue have been set for Copyright and Technology 2019. The date is Wednesday, January 16, 2019, and we will be back at Fordham’s beautiful new Law School building near Lincoln Center in West Midtown […]

Announcing Publishing Technology Partners

I’m thrilled to announce the formation of Publishing Technology Partners, a new partnership related to my consulting activities in book publishing. We’re launching today at the Book Industry Study Group’s annual meeting in NYC, though we have already gotten press coverage. Publishing Technology Partners consists of myself and four guys whom I have known for […]