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March 20 Panel on Music Copyright Reform
I’ll be speaking on a panel on music copyright reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 20, from noon-2pm, hosted by the Technology Policy Institute. The primary topic of conversation will be the Music Modernization Act (MMA), the bill that would establish a blanket mechanical license on musical compositions for streaming music services […]
Presentation Given at USPTO Conference
Here are the slides I presented for my keynote speech at the US Patent and Trademark Office’s conference on Developing the Digital Marketplace for Copyrighted Works, January 25, 2018: Video of my talk and the rest of the conference is also available here.
USPTO Hosts Public Meeting on Digital Content Marketplace Next Thursday
Now that our Copyright and Technology conference is over, I’d like to draw your attention to a public meeting at the United States Patent and Trademark Office next Thursday, January 25th, called Developing the Digital Marketplace for Copyrighted Works. This is a follow-on to a similarly-titled workshop that the USPTO held a year ago. The […]
Copyright and Technology 2018 – Earlybird Expires Tomorrow
The earlybird discount for the Copyright and Technology 2018 conference expires tomorrow, December 20. The event will take place on Tuesday January 16 at Fordham Law School’s beautiful new facility near Lincoln Center in west midtown Manhattan. I’m also pleased to announce that Booxtream, the provider of e-book watermarking technology, will be a Gold Sponsor, […]
2018 Conference: Registration Is Live, Research Presentation and New Panel on Sci-Hub
I’m happy to announce that registration for Copyright and Technology 2018 is now live, with earlybird discount through December 20. We also have some exciting new agenda items to announce for our conference on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. In what has become an annual tradition, we will have a presentation of original research in the […]
Copyright and Technology Conference Date Change: Tuesday, January 16, 2018
We have had to change the date of the next Copyright and Technology conference to one day earlier owing to issues with the venue. The new date is Tuesday, January 16, 2018. The agenda and speakers, including keynote speaker Jonathan Taplin, will all be the same. There are still several speaking slots as well as […]
Copyright and Technology 2018 Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Taplin
We’ve got an exciting keynote speaker lined up for Copyright and Technology 2018 on January 17: Jonathan Taplin, Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. Like Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future?, Taplin extrapolates the effects of those Internet […]
Announcing the Copyright and Technology 2018 Conference
I’m pleased to announce that our next Copyright and Technology conference will be on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at Fordham Law School, on Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus on the upper west side of Manhattan. The conference is now in its ninth year, and once again I’m proud to be producing it in partnership with the Copyright […]
Setting the Agenda for Copyright and Technology 2018 Conference
Summer’s here and the time is right for planning the agenda for the next Copyright and Technology Conference — which will be in NYC in late January 2018 (exact date TBD), now in its ninth year and once again in partnership with the Copyright Society of the USA. For those of you who have attended […]
2017 Conference
I’m pleased to welcome the law firm of Davis Wright & Tremaine (DWT) as a Gold Sponsor for the Copyright and Technology 2017 conference. DWT partner Lance Koonce is one of the leaders of the firm’s Blockchain Initiative and has been especially active in blockchain applications for media and the arts. (In fact, I first met […]
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