Using Copyright for Non-Copyright Purposes When: March 9, 2021 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST - This event has passed ABOUt THE PROGRAM: Not every copyright owner is concerned about licensing fees. Some use copyright’s restrictions on use of works to suppress their use by political adversaries, to remove leaked secrets from the public eye, or to take down “revenge porn.” Join the Northern California chapter of the Copyright Society for a panel discussion of these and other non-traditional uses of copyright and how they complement or conflict with the goals of copyright. SPEAKERS: Annemarie Bridy is Copyright Counsel at Google. She is also a Nonresidential Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and an Affiliate Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Prior to joining Google, Dr. Bridy was the Allan G. Shepard Professor of Law at the University of Idaho, where she taught a range of courses in intellectual property and information law. She has testified before Congress on the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is widely published on topics relating to Internet governance, platform liability and responsibility for third-party speech, and online anti-piracy enforcement. She has also published on the implications of artificial intelligence for copyright authorship and the intersection of copyright law and literary theory. Dr. Bridy has been interviewed on IP and tech law topics for national media outlets including The LA Times, Marketplace Tech Report, Bloomberg News, Ars Technica, The Verge, and The ABA Journal. She has also been a guest on the TechDirt and Reply All podcasts. Carrie Goldberg is founder of Victims’ Rights law firm, C. A. Goldberg, PLLC. The Brooklyn firm does groundbreaking work nationally fighting for targets of sexual violence, online and off. Her landmark cases include Herrick V Grindr which introduced the novel legal approach of applying product liability law to dangerous tech products and K.M. v City of New York which is the highest known recovery in a Title IX case in NYC. Carrie’s well-known work for victims of nonconsensual porn is featured in the documentary Netizens and profiled in The New Yorker, Elle, Cosmo, Wired, Glamour and more. Carrie is the author of “Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs & Trolls” a 2019 NYT Editor’s Choice. Carrie attended Vassar College and Brooklyn Law School. Jessica Silbey is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Previously, she was at Northeastern University School of law, where she directed the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC). She teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, constitutional law, and law and the humanities. Her most recent book is The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual property (Stanford University Press 2015). Professor Silbey’s scholarship has won numerous awards, including a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. She was named the Robert D. Klein Lecturer at Northeastern University in 2020, and has been a Distinguished Lecturer at the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia, the Shidler Lecturer at the University of Washington, Seattle, a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, and is currently an Affiliate Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Ethan Jacobs (Moderator) is a solo attorney who litigates a variety of copyright, trademark, and business disputes. Ethan represented the author of the parody stage play Point Break LIVE! in a jury trial on fair use issues. Ethan’s copyright practice includes advising software developers, book publishers, and filmmakers. CLE CREDIT: The Copyright Society is a Certified CLE Provider in New York and California. Program will provide 1.0 NY CLE credit and 1.0 CA participatory credit. The intermediate program is transitional and appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Instructions for verifying attendance will be emailed to registrants prior to the program. COST: Members: $35 Non-Members: $75 Student Members: Free Not a member? Consider joining today to receive a discount to this event and more! Membership Info Cancellation Policy Refunds must be requested in writing at least three business days before the event. Refunds will not be issued after that point. Unfortunately we will not be able to credit your registration payment toward a future event, but you may allow another person to attend in your place. Please email rogerio@csusa.org and let us know that person’s name, affiliation, city and state, and email address. Financial Aid The Copyright Society is dedicated to making our programming accessible by providing a limited number of scholarships each year to students, law clerks, unemployed attorneys, and nonprofit and government employees. For information on how to apply, please click here. CLE Credit Details The Copyright Society is a Certified CLE Provider in New York and California. Program will provide 1.0 NY CLE credit and 1.0 CA participatory credit. The intermediate program is transitional and appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Instructions for verifying attendance will be emailed to registrants prior to the program. This event has passed
