Kernochan Center for law, media and the arts

Events

Spring 2012 IP Speaker Series

  • Jan. 24: Indigenous IP:  Professor Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Feb. 7:    Digital Storage Lockers and Copyright Liability: Capitol Records v. MP3tunes.com: Carletta Higginson (’03) and Joseph McFadden (’05), Jenner & Block; Michael Elkin, Winston & Strawn
  • Feb. 14: Graffiti Art and Copyright: Celia Lerman, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires (Kernochan Center Visiting IP Scholar)
  • Feb. 28: Protect IP Act/SOPA and other efforts to regulate internet infringement: Joseph Gratz, Durie Tangri and Stanley Pierre-Louis, Viacom
  • Feb. 29: Lesley Friedman Rosenthal, General Counsel of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. This lunch will be held in JGH 107
  • Mar. 20: Mass digitization of copyrighted works (including issues related to digital libraries and “orphan works”): Paul Aiken, Authors Guild and Marybeth Peters, Oblon, Spivak (former U.S. Register of Copyrights)
  • Apr. 10: International Copyright Update: Guy Pessach, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; additional speakers TBA
  • Apr. 17: Fair Use Update:  Appropriation Art: Prof. Eva Subotnik, St. John’s University School of Law; additional speaker TBA

 

PAST EVENTS

Communications Colloquium Fall 2011 Series, October 27th

Co-Sponsored by Columbia University Libraries and the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts:  "Beyond the Copyright Wars: Fair Use, Free Speech, and Reframing the Policy Debate"

Featuring Pat Aufderheide, University Professor, American University

Fall 2011 IP Speaker Series

  • Oct. 4 : Copyright's Public Domain: Useless Trash or Hidden Treasure?.  Professor Séverine Dusollier, University of Namur, Belgium.
  • Sept. 22: "The Quest for a Sound Conception of Copyright's Derivative Work Right" - The Kernochan Center kicks off its 2011-2012 IP Speaker Series with one of the country's most prominent and prolific IP scholars, Pam Samuelson, the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. 

September 19, 2011- Alumni in IP and Entertainment Law - Scott Martin ’86, Jackie Ewenstein ’97, Carletta Higginson ’03 and Courtney Farkas ’06

Spring 2011 IP Speaker Series

  • Jan. 22 : P2P File Sharing, Service Providers and "Graduated Response":  Professor Rebecca Giblin, University of Monash, Australia and Professor Alain Strowel, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels and University of Liège
  • Feb. 1:    Viacom, YouTube and Section 512 of the DMCA: Lital Helman, Kernochan Center IP Fellow and Stanley Pierre-Louis, Viacom, Inc.
  • Feb. 22: Does Fashion Need IP Protection?:  Barbara Kolsun, General Counsel of Stuart Weitzman, LLC, and David Jacoby (CLS '78) and Judith Roth (CLS '77) of Schiff Hardin LLP
  • Mar. 1: Fair Use Best Practices:  Professor Peter Jaszi of American University, Washington College of Law and Professor Jennifer Rothman of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
  • Mar. 8:  The Camel's Nose?  Standardizing Copyright Exceptions for the Visually Impaired Through a New Multilateral Treaty:  Dr. Kenneth Crews, head of Columbia University's Copyright Advisory Office and Lecturer in Law at CLS, and Steven J. Metalitz, partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
  • Mar. 29: An Update on the Google Books Settlement:  Jeffrey Cunard of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Mary Rasenberger of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
  • Apr. 12: Copyright Statutory Damages:  Jonathan Band of Jonathan Band PLLC and Jacqueline Charlesworth of Morrison & Foerster LLP


January 28, 2011 - Kernochan Center Annual Symposium Collective Management of Copyright:  Solution or Sacrifice?  For more information, click here.