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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Lunch Keynote) Lunchtime Key Note

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright ActLunchtime Keynote: Honorable Margaret McKoeown, KeynoteApril 16, 2026 0.50 General CLE Offered Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit delivered the BTLJ Spring Lunch Keynote on May 7, 2026, arguing that generative AI presents copyright’s most profound doctrinal stress test since the internet, but that the 1976 Copyright Act’s flexible language—particularly the fair use factors and the undefined scope of “original works of authorship”—remains capable of absorbing the disruption, even as courts await a first appellate decision and Congress remains largely dormant. Instructor(s)Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMolly Van Houweling, UC Berkeley LawErik Stallman, UC Berkeley Law

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Panel 1) Welcoming Remarks, Opening Key Note, Panel 1

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright ActWelcoming Remarks | Opening Keynote | Panel 1: Origins of the 1976 Copyright ActApril 16, 2026 2.50 General CLE Offered Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info At the 29th Annual Berkeley Center for Law and Technology–Berkeley Technology Law Journal Symposium, Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter and Professors Peter Menell, Jessica Litman, and Jane Ginsburg examined the origins, structural compromises, and enduring limitations of the Copyright Act of 1976, concluding that while its core architecture has proven remarkably resilient against successive technological disruptions, the statute’s negotiated promises to authors have broken down in practice, leaving individual creators systematically disadvantaged a half-century after enactment. Instructor(s)Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright OfficeJessica Litman, Professor, University of Michigan Law SchoolJane Ginsburg, Professor, Columbia Law SchoolPeter Menell, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of LawPamela Samuelson, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of LawMolly Van Houweling, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law.

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Panel 2) The Role of the Author, Panel 2

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: The Role of the Author and the Acquisition and Duration of Their RightsPanel 2: The Role of the Author April 16, 2026  1.50 General CLE Offered Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info At the Berkeley Technology Law Journal’s 29th Annual Symposium, Professors Tyler Ochoa, David Nimmer, Robert Brauneis, and Peter DiCola examined the 1976 Copyright Act’s author-centered reforms—covering formalities, duration, termination of transfer, fixation, joint authorship, and market structure—and concluded that twin oligopolies in copyright aggregation and technological distribution have structurally disabled the economic leverage those reforms were designed to provide, while judicial resistance and contractual end-runs have eroded the inalienable termination right that was the Act’s most ambitious pro-author innovation. Instructor(s)Tyler Ochoa, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of LawDavid Nimmer, Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law, and Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP, author of Nimmer on CopyrightRobert Brauneis, Michael McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Co-Director, GW Barnard Center for Law and Technology, George Washington University Law SchoolPeter DiCola, Professor of Law and Director of the JD-PhD Program, Northwestern Pritzker School of LawMolly Van Houweling, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law.

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Panel 3) The Scope of Exclusive Rights, Panel 3

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright ActPanel 3: The Scope of Exclusive Rights and Modes of Enforcement April 16, 2026 1.50 General CLE Offered Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info A Berkeley Technology Law Journal symposium panel examined how the Supreme Court’s unanimous 2025 decision in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment overhauled a half-century of contributory copyright infringement doctrine, sharply narrowing secondary liability to two specific fact patterns—inducement and tailored material contribution—while leaving platforms, AI gatekeepers, and lower courts without coherent guidance on how the new framework interacts with the broader architecture of copyright enforcement. Instructor(s)Christopher Sprigman, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, NYU School of LawOren Bracha, Professor of Law, University of Texas School of LawJustin Hughes, Distinguished Professor of Law and Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics, Loyola Law SchoolLaura Heymann, Professor of Law, William and Mary Law SchoolErik Stallman, Clinical Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Panel 4) The Shifting Line Between Federal and State Protection, Panel 4

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright ActPanel 4: The Shifting Line Between Federal and State Protection April 16, 2026 1.50 General CLE Offered Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info At the Berkeley Technology Law Journal’s 29th Annual Symposium, Professors R. Anthony Reese, Marketa Trimble, Guy Rub, and Shyamkrishna Balganesh examined the federalization of unpublished works under the 1976 Copyright Act, the residual terrain of state copyright statutes, the contract-preemption frontier under Section 301, and the misappropriation doctrine’s corrupted legislative history—concluding that the House Report’s endorsement of hot news misappropriation described a statutory provision that was never enacted, and that courts have been building doctrine on that error for decades, with direct and unresolved consequences for data scraping, AI training, and the boundary between state and federal intellectual property protection. Instructor(s)R. Anthony Reese, Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of LawMarketa Trimble, Professor of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of LawGuy Rub, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of LawShyamkrishna Balganesh, Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolPeter Menell, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Panel 5) Copyrightable Subject Matter, Panel 5

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright ActPanel 5:  Copyrightable Subject Matter and the Special Problem of SoftwareApril 17, 2026 1.50 General CLE Offered Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info At the BTLJ Spring Symposium’s panel on software, copyright, and generative AI, scholars and practitioners traced how AI-generated code — likely uncopyrightable under current Copyright Office guidance — threatens to collapse the legal infrastructure underpinning open source software licenses, and how empirical evidence of large language model memorization is forcing courts to reconsider whether a model’s weights may themselves constitute a copy fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Instructor(s)Clark Asay, BYU LawA. Feder Cooper, Yale University Jule Sigall, former MicrosoftPamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley Law

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Panel 6) Unanticipated Consequences, Panel 6

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright ActPanel 6: Unanticipated Consequences of New Technologies and Practices April 17, 2026 1.50 General CLE Offered Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info At the closing panel of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal’s 29th Annual Symposium on the 1976 Copyright Act, Professors Daniel Gervais, Matthew Sag, Rebecca Tushnet, and Jennifer Urban examined four unanticipated strains on the Act—the licensing architecture’s adequacy for generative AI, the fair use status of non-consumptive copying, the legal standing of non-commercial fan creators, and the stalled orphan works reform—concluding that voluntary licensing, conflict preemption doctrine, and a targeted Section 107 amendment each offer partial solutions, but that no single mechanism can resolve the scale, territorial, and political-economy failures that AI training has simultaneously exposed. Professors Peter Menell, Pamela Samuelson, and Molly Van Houweling followed with closing remarks. Instructor(s)Daniel Gervais, Professor of Law (Emeritus), Vanderbilt Law SchoolMatthew Sag, Professor of Law, Emory University School of LawRebecca Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolJennifer Urban, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of LawPeter Menell, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of LawPamela Samuelson, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of LawMolly Van Houweling, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act

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To mark the 50th anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School are sponsoring this joint bi-coastal symposium. The Berkeley event, on April 16-17, 2026, examined the origins of the 1976 Act, its key reforms and features, as well the challenges that the regime has encountered as a result of technological change. The Columbia event, on October 23-24, 2026, will focus on how the 1976 Act and subsequent reforms have interacted with public and private institutions, from the Copyright Office and the courts to collecting societies and voluntary and open source licensing organizations. Both events will explore how copyright law might be reformed to address challenges posed by new technologies, notably artificial intelligence. Symposium speakers will include Shira Perlmutter, the 14th Register of Copyrights, judges from the Second and Ninth Circuits, and leading copyright scholars. Symposium essays will be published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts.

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Cox v. Sony Music: Refining Secondary (C) Liability Rules

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. | B-CLE Webcast 0.50 General CLE Credit Offered Program Info | Resources | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info Don't miss this compelling expert webcast from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, featuring renowned copyright scholar Prof. Pam Samuelson of BCLT, UC Berkeley School of Law. In one of the most consequential copyright decisions in years, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Fourth Circuit's ruling in Cox v. Sony Music — and the implications are massive for secondary liability law. Professor Samuelson unpacks what the Court actually decided, why it matters, and how it will reshape the landscape of contributory infringement going forward. Whether you're new to copyright law or a seasoned practitioner, this is one discussion you can't afford to miss. This program is ideal for: Attorneys, legal professionals, and students working in or curious about intellectual property, copyright, and technology law — as well as broadband providers, online platforms, and anyone navigating secondary liability issues. Key takeaways: The Supreme Court eliminated the "material contribution with knowledge" standard for contributory copyright infringement, requiring proof of purposeful, culpable conduct — a major shift that will force courts to rethink existing secondary liability cases. Amicus briefs played a decisive role, with the Solicitor General, major tech platforms (Google, Amazon, Microsoft), and civil society groups like the EFF weighing in — and the Court's reasoning reflects their influence. The ruling has sweeping implications for ISPs, online platforms, and copyright owners alike, raising new questions about DMCA safe harbors, repeat infringer policies, and the balance between protecting rights holders and preserving public internet access.

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: (Keynote) WIPO Director General Daren Tang

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global ConversationFriday, November 14, 2025Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law CenterCo-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center Event Info | Agenda | Resources | Speaker Biographies Keynote SpeakersDaren Tang, WIPO This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit. Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: (Panel 1) AI’s Challenge to Inventorship

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global ConversationFriday, November 14, 2025Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law CenterCo-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center Event Info | Agenda | Resources | Speaker Biographies Panel I: AI’s Challenge to Inventorship ModeratorYuan Hao, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law SpeakersNalini Mummalaneni, USPTOChris Mammen, Womble Bond Dickinson (United States)Chris de Mauny, Bird and Bird (United States)Yong woo Shin, Jipyong LLC (Korea) This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit. Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: (Panel 2) AI’s Challenges to Non-obviousness / Inventive-step and Disclosure

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global ConversationFriday, November 14, 2025Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law CenterCo-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center Event Info | Agenda | Resources | Speaker Biographies Panel II: AI’s Challenges to Non-obviousness / Inventive-step and Disclosure ModeratorRobert Merges, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law SpeakersYuan Hao, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley LawPeter Lee, UC Davis LawLisa Ouellette, Stanford LawArti Rai, Duke Law This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit. Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: (Panel 3) Style, Voice and NIL: Protecting Human Persona in the AI Age

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global ConversationFriday, November 14, 2025Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law CenterCo-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center Event Info | Agenda | Resources | Speaker Biographies Panel III: Style, Voice and NIL: Protecting Human Persona in the AI Age ModeratorLaurent Mayali, UC Berkeley Law SpeakersJyh-An Lee, Chinese University of Hong KongChien-Chih (Jesse) Lu, National Chengchi University (Taiwan)Robert Merges, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley LawDuane Valz, Valz LegalPeter Yu, Texas A&M This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit. Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: (Panel 4) AI’s Challenge to Authorship

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global ConversationFriday, November 14, 2025Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law CenterCo-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center Event Info | Agenda | Resources | Speaker Biographies Panel IV: AI’s Challenge to Authorship ModeratorPeter Yu, Texas A&M SpeakersMatt Blaszczyk, Michigan LawJames Freedman, Architect Capital (United States)Ge Jiang, Tsinghua (China)Hon. Kwangnam Kim, Seoul High Court, IP Division (Korea)Matthias Leistner, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit. Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: (Panel 5) Copyright Infringement and the Fair Use Defense

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global ConversationFriday, November 14, 2025Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law CenterCo-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center Event Info | Agenda | Resources | Speaker Biographies Panel V: Copyright Infringement and the Fair Use Defense ModeratorDaryl Lim, Penn State Dickinson Law SpeakersBrian Carver, GoogleMatthias Leistner, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)Sangchul Park, Seoul National University (Korea)Seagull Song, King & Wood Mallesons (China)Janel Thamkul, Anthropic This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit. Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global Conversation

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This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit. Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

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Leigh Steinberg Series for the Protection of Student Athletes: (Part 1) How NIL and Immigration Collided

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Part 1: How NIL and Immigration Collided Event Information | Resources | Speaker Bios & Contact Info This presentation will focus on the history of the NCAA’s Name, Image and Likeness (“NIL”) policy and how these rules, designed to benefit NCAA student-athletes, resulted in a disparate impact on international athletes participating in NCAA sports. Our discussion will include the following topics: The history of NIL, including the right of publicity and the anti-trust litigation that resulted in the adoption of the “NIL” rules by the NCAA. An overview of the players in the new NIL industry: collectives, agents, schools, outside counsel. The definition of employment under immigration law, and how that definition may differ from those under the DOL and IRS regulations. The limitations of the F-1 student visa and permissible employment under that nonimmigrant classification. Why current immigration laws offer no legal avenue for most international student-athletes to take advantage of their NIL rights   Speakers: Ksenia Maiorova, Practice Group Leader, Individual and Olympic Athletes, Green & Spiegel, LLC Flavia Santos-Lloyd, Certified Immigration Specialist by the CA Bar and Founder, Santos Lloyd Law Firm, PC Dan Lust, Counsel, Morrit Hock & Hamroff, PC

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Leigh Steinberg Series for the Protection of Student Athletes: (Part 2) Mother May I? – NIL x Immigration workarounds

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Part 2: Mother May I? – NIL x Immigration workarounds Event Information | Resources | Speaker Bios & Contact Info This presentation will build on the discussion outlined in Module 1 and tackle the question of whether various “workarounds” proposed and implemented by NIL industry stakeholders are compliant with immigration law. Our discussion will include the following topics: Review of the definition of “employment” as covered in Module 1 The role of the consular officer and the spectrum of risk involved in relying on workarounds to the F-1 rules Performing NIL activities outside the United States The concept of “passive income” and whether compliance is possible with both immigration law and the NCAA rules Workaround case studies – what works and what does not   Speakers: Dan Berger, Partner, Green & Spiegel Ksenia Maiorova, Practice Group Leader, Individual and Olympic Athletes, Green & Spiegel, LLC Christopher Richardson, BDV Solutions

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Leigh Steinberg Series for the Protection of Student Athletes: (Part 3) The Band-Aid Solution: P-1, O-1 and EB-1A visas for international student-athletes

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Part 3: The Band-Aid Solution: P-1, O-1 and EB-1A visas for international student-athletes Event Information | Resources | Speaker Bios & Contact Info Building on topics covered in Modules 1 and 2, this presentation will discuss how some international student-athletes who seek to commercially exploit their NIL rights may benefit from visa classifications that are typically utilized by athletes who have completed their collegiate careers. Our discussion will include the following topics: Overview of the P-1A “Internationally Recognized Athlete” classification and NIL case study Overview of the O-1A “Extraordinary Ability” classification and NIL case study Overview of the EB-1A “Extraordinary Ability” classification and NIL case study Discussion of the drawbacks and benefits of each classification in the NIL context   Speakers: Ksenia Maiorova, Practice Group Leader, Individual and Olympic Athletes, Green & Spiegel, LLC Amy Maldonado, Founder and Principal, Law Offices of Amy Maldonado, LLC

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Leigh Steinberg Series for the Protection of Student Athletes: (Part 4) In search of a solution: the quest to make NIL universally available to all international student-athletes

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Part 4: In search of a solution: the quest to make NIL universally available to all international student-athletes Event Information | Resources | Speaker Bios & Contact Info This module will focus on the statutory, regulatory, and policy changes that would be required to make NIL available to all international student-athletes on par with their US counterparts as well as current advocacy efforts in the NIL x Immigration context. Our discussion will include the following topics: Statutory solutions and overview of the bills addressing international student-athletes and NIL that have been introduced so far Regulatory solutions and the challenges of notice and comment Policy solutions and the current push for comprehensive advocacy What about the J-1?   Speakers: Jonathan Grode, Managing Partner, Green & Spiegel, LLC Ksenia Maiorova, Practice Group Leader, Individual and Olympic Athletes, Green & Spiegel, LLC Amy Maldonado, Founder and Principal, Law Offices of Amy Maldonado, LLC Prof. David Weber, Creighton University

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Leigh Steinberg Series for the Protection of Student Athletes: (Part 5) The rolling snowball: classification of student-athletes as employees

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Session 5: The rolling snowball: classification of student-athletes as employees Event Information | Resources | Speaker Bios & Contact Info This module will discuss the legal mechanisms that could lead to the classification of student-athletes as employees and the immigration implications of these scenarios. Our discussion will include the following topics: The proposed settlement in House v. NCAA and the distinction between direct payment models and NIL The NLRB decision Trustees of Dartmouth College The impossibility of I-9 compliance Solutions that could address both NIL and employee status related issues   Speakers: Ksenia Maiorova, Practice Group Leader, Individual and Olympic Athletes, Green & Spiegel, LLC Amy Maldonado, Founder and Principal, Law Offices of Amy Maldonado, LLC John Mazzeo, Associate General Counsel, Vertical Screen, Inc. Prof. David Weber, Creighton University

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Talk I: Copyright Challenge – A Comparative Law View on Authorship

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Program occured on January 23, 2024 Event Information | Agenda | Resources Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law Center In Nov. 2023, the five-year-old Beijing Internet Court (“BIC”) issued a landmark judgment (Li v. Liu) on the copyright eligibility of an image generated with Stable Diffusion AI, finding the human user that provided elaborate prompts to the machine to be the “author”. This judgment has triggered a flurry of vigorous debates in China, and meanwhile attracted significant international attention. Some commented that this $70 ruling may have far-reaching implications on the evolution of AIGC in China, unleashing a trillion-dollar industry. Some contrasted this judgment with the various rejection decisions issued lately by the US Copyright Office (“USCO”), which found that the human users in the loop do not have sufficient authorial control, despite the hundreds of prompt inputs. The apparent disparity in outcomes however, may have largely shadowed the similarity of a human-centered approach adopted by both institutions facing a common conundrum. With the emergence of powerful Gen-AI tools and their varied synergies with human beings, we now start to witness real-world examples of “authorless works” as coined by Prof. Ginsburg and Luke Budiardjo. While these “works” may not fulfill the conventional authorship requirement, some of them may have remarkable commercial or even arguably artistic values (depending how we interpret “art”). How to properly address this common challenge faced by all jurisdictions, may require us to go beyond the doctrinal level and revisit the justifying principles of copyright law / author’s law, in light of the legal and economic context in the particular jurisdiction. In this inaugural Talk, we invited Profs Guobin Cui and Qian Wang, two renowned copyright law scholars in China, to give us a nuanced account of this case, against the backdrop of how the rapidly evolving copyright law deals with various technological challenges in China. As a comparison, BCLT’s own faculty director Prof. Robert Merges, Co-Director of BAIC, will provide his insight through the lens of US copyright law, as well as the underlying principles of intellectual property. Discussants:    Prof. Guobin Cui (???), Tsinghua University School of LawProf. Robert Merges, BCLTProf. Qian Wang (??), Eastern University of Political Science and Law Moderator: Dr. Yuan Hao (??), BCLT

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Talk II: Commercialization Landscape of Gen-AI 2024

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Program occured on March 18, 2024 Event Information | Agenda | Resources Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law Center ITalk II was dedicated to unraveling the emerging commercialization landscape of Gen-AI. This talk featured insights from two vanguards in the field: Di Li, the visionary Founder and CEO of XiaoIce, Microsoft’s renowned AI spinoff, and Chlon Tang, the esteemed Founding / Managing Partner of Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Together with Yuan, they explored the transformative journey of Gen-AI from cutting-edge technological novelty to indispensable market solutions. As the initial excitement surrounding AI technologies gradually gives way to a demand for real value and comprehensive user experiences, the speakers dissected the critical elements driving the success of Gen-AI ventures, delved into the emergence of killer applications, and shared strategies for creating deep value that fosters active user engagement. This session illuminated the path towards building enduring businesses and innovation in the Gen-AI ecosystem, highlighting the notable approaches and mindsets required to navigate this rapidly evolving commercial landscape. Hopefully, this talk will provide our audience with a deeper understanding of how Gen-AI is starting to reshape innovative and creative industries.   Discussants:  Li Di, Xiaoice Dr. Yuan Hao, BCLT Chon Tang, Berkeley SkyDeck

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Talk III: How Fair is “Fair Use” in the AI Age?

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Program occured on April 30, 2024 Event Information | Agenda | Resources Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law Center Conventionally, the fair use doctrine has been serving as a safety valve in balancing the copyright protection of expressive creativity and necessary access for cumulative creativity. Despite the modern US Copyright Act’s legislative intent of having broad exclusive rights and narrow limitations however, for some reasons in past decades the supposedly limited fair use doctrine has turned essentially into a  broad transformativeness test, i.e. the secondary work is transformative as a matter of law “[i]f looking at the works side-by-side, the secondary work has a different character, a new expression, and employs new aesthetics with [distinct] creative and communicative results.” This simplistic inquiry has arguably caused, among other confusions, a serious collision between authors’ right to derivative works and the transformative-use dominated fair use defense. This collision is likely to be further exacerbated with the rapid deployment of generative AI tools in the creative industry, where consumption of large amount of copyrighted works (as “raw materials”) in the training process has been forcefully argued by some as fair use, due to the “transformativeness” of the AI outputs. But is this “fair use” indeed fair, particularly in light of the fact that many such AI outputs constitute competitive commodities with the original copyrighted works created by human artists?  On a deeper level, is such a broad fair use doctrine consistent with the principles of the IP system that has been running for centuries to incentivize and honor human creativity? In the wake of Warhol v. Goldsmith, a landmark case in which the US Supreme Court took great pains to clarify the decade-long confusion prevalent in the interplay of fair use and author’s right to derivative works, please join me in an in-depth discussion with my esteemed Berkeley colleagues Prof. Peter Menell, Prof. Robert Merges: how fair is “fair use” in the AI age?   Discussants:  Dr. Yuan Hao, BCLT Prof. Peter Menell, BCLT Prof. Robert Merges, BCLT

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The Future of U.S. Innovation - Navigating Regulation and Its Impact

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  • Instructor(s):  UC Berkeley Law

Program occurred September 27, 2025Alumni Reunion Weekend | September 26-27, 2025 As the U.S. navigates rapid technological change, global competition, and evolving regulation, the future of American innovation is at a crossroads. This forward-looking program brings together thought leaders in law, technology, and policy (Colleen Chien, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law; Abigail Dillen, Earthjustice; Mark Mao, Boiues Schiller Flexner LLP) to explore how the U.S. can maintain its edge in critical areas like AI, intellectual property, and emerging industries. Participants will gain insights into how legal frameworks, public policy, and global dynamics intersect to shape the next era of innovation. You’ll learn how to: Understand the legal and policy forces influencing U.S. innovation and competitiveness Evaluate how AI, data, and IP laws are redefining the innovation economy Identify strategies for fostering responsible growth in emerging technologies Speakers: Colleen Chien, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law Abigail Dillen, Earthjustice Mark Mao, Boiues Schiller Flexner LLP Moderator: Wayne Stacy, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law

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