Events

January 29: Kirtsaeng v. Wiley and the Application of the first sale doctrine to copies made outside the U.S.: Sherwin Siy, Public Knowledge and Charles Sims, Proskauer
February 12: On Demand: Copyright Issues Concerning New Technologies for Delivery of TV and Movies: Jeffrey Cunard, Debevoise & Plimpton and Michael Elkin, Winston & Strawn
February 19: Copyright and Human Rights, Conflicts and Accommodations: Prof. Graeme Austin '00, Victoria University of Wellington; Melbourne University
February 26: Do I Own It? (And Can I Sell It?) License v. Sale of Copies and Other Digital Works: A Comparative Look at EU amd US Copyright Law: Robert Clarida '93, Reitler, Kailas and Rosenblatt LLC and Jacques de Werra '01, University of Geneva
February 27: Representing the Visual Artist: Nancy Wolff, Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP and John Silberman, John Silberman Associates P.C.
March 11: Developments in European Copyright Law: Jerker Rydén, Senior Advisor, National Library of Sweden in Stockholm (co-sponsored by Columbia University Libraries)
March 12: Second Level Agreements and Frictionless Licensing: When User-Generated Content Meets Copyright Practice: Yafit Lev-Aretz '09, Kernochan Center IP Fellow and Marc Wendell, Product Manager, ImageIRC, Getty Images
April 16: Copyright's "Orphan Works" - Abandoned or Just Neglected?: Nancy Wolff, Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard and Melissa Levine, University of Michigan Library

October 9: Meet the Practitioner: Professor Edward Klaris, Vice President of Editorial Assets and Rights at Condé Nast Publications and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School
October 23: Current Issues in International Copyright: Geidy Lung, Senior Counsellor at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Kernochan Center Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School

January 24: Indigenous IP: Professor Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
February 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
February 14: Graffiti Art and Copyright: Celia Lerman, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires (Kernochan Center Visiting IP Scholar)
February 28: Protect IP Act/SOPA and Other Efforts to RegulateIinternetIinfringement: Joseph Gratz, Durie Tangri and Stanley Pierre-Louis, Viacom
February 29: Lesley Friedman Rosenthal, General Counsel of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
March 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)
April 17: Appropriation Art and Fair Use: Robert Clarida, Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLC and Prof. Eva Subotnik, St. John’s University School of Law

October 27: "Beyond the Copyright Wars: Fair Use, Free Speech, and Reframing the Policy Debate," Featuring Pat Aufderheide, University Professor, American University, Co-sponsored by Columbia University Libraries and the Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts

September 19: Alumni in IP and Entertainment Law - Scott Martin ’86, Jackie Ewenstein ’97, Carletta Higginson ’03 and Courtney Farkas ’06
September 22: "The Quest for a Sound Conception of Copyright's Derivative Work Right" - The Kernochan Center kicked 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
October 4 : Copyright's Public Domain: Useless Trash or Hidden Treasure? Professor Séverine Dusollier, University of Namur, Belgium.

January 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
February 1: Viacom, YouTub,e and Section 512 of the DMCA: Lital Helman, Kernochan Center IP Fellow, and Stanley Pierre-Louis, Viacom, Inc.
February 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
March 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
March 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
March 29: An Update on the Google Books Settlement: Jeffrey Cunard of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and Mary Rasenberger of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
April 12: Copyright Statutory Damages: Jonathan Band of Jonathan Band PLLC, and Jacqueline Charlesworth of Morrison & Foerster LLP

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