2025 Copyright + Technology Conference

Registration and Light Breakfast

Bateman Lecture Hall on Floor 2

Welcome Remarks

Constantino Lecture Hall on Floor 2

Daniel Cooper

President, Copyright Society | Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Counsel, Intellectual Property, NBCUniversal

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Bill Rosenblatt

President | GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies

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This Masquerade: Streaming Fraud and Copyright

It has been estimated that as much as 10% of music streams are fraudulent and that the percentage is growing. In this session, we’ll explore the sizable chunk of this activity that has copyright implications, such as fraudsters submitting music by famous artists to streaming services and claiming it as their own. We’ll examine these sources of streaming fraud and the roles that streaming services, independent distributors, labels, and technology providers can play in mitigating it.

Midmorning Break

Keynote: Tracey Armstrong, Copyright Clearance Center

Lunch

What’s Past is Prologue: Lessons for AI from the File-Sharing Era

Napster’s launch in 1999 disrupted the copyright landscape, leading to more than a decade of innovation in laws, technologies, and business models as industries struggled to adapt. Today, AI technologies are poised to disrupt at least as much as file-sharing did. What lessons can we learn from the file-sharing experience – both positive and negative? We’ll hear from attorneys, technologists, and policy wonks who lived through the post-Napster era as they offer their thoughts on how to navigate the decade to come.

Break

My Own Three Hands: AI Content Creation Tools and Copyright Registration

U.S. Copyright Office guidelines dictate that authors must disclaim AI-generated portions of their works when they register them. How will this work in practice as AI-powered tools pervade more and more aspects of content creation processes? What will creators be able to claim as their own, and what evidence will they need to show that they created it themselves? How will these standards evolve as AI technology progresses, and how will litigators use the standards to challenge copyright registrations in court? The session will discuss this emerging conundrum of copyright in the AI age.

Break

A Thousand Times No: The Practicalities of Opt-Out for AI Training

YouTube and other services implement an “opt-out” style of copyright compliance: a service will use your content unless you tell it not to. Now opt-out is being discussed as a way for creators to ensure that their works aren’t used to train generative AI systems. How might such schemes work, what are the practical implications for content creators and service providers alike, and what are the alternatives? Our panel will look at opt-out schemes being considered today as well as likely paths forward.