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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act
Lunchtime Keynote: Honorable Margaret McKoeown, Keynote
April 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 Circuit
Molly Van Houweling, UC Berkeley Law
Erik Stallman, UC Berkeley Law