The Ownership of Copyrightable Contributions in the Wake of Garcia v. Google and 16 Casa Duse v. Merkin

The Second and Ninth Circuits have both recently held that an actor or a director may not, in the normalcourse, own a copyright to their individual contributions to an integrated work of authorship like a film.This panel will explore whether these decisions were correct, and the real-world impact they will have onthe motion picture industry, and on contributions to integrated works.Moderator:Justin Hughes,Hon. William Byrne Professor of Law, Loyola Law SchoolPanelists:Eleanor Lackman,Partner, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLPF. Jay Dougherty,Professor of Law, Director of Entertainment & Media Law Institute andConcentration Program, Loyola Law SchoolChristopher Newman,Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University School of LawDanielle Van Lier,Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property and Contracts, SAG-AFTRA