29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act (Day 1)
Thursday, April 16, 2026 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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April 16–17, 2026
International House (Berkeley, CA)
Join BCLT and BTLJ for the 29th Annual Spring Symposium! The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School and BCLT are sponsoring a bi-coastal joint symposium entitled “Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act.”
Organized in honor of the 50th anniversary of the ‘76 Act, the symposium will take place in two parts. It will start at Berkeley on April 16–17, 2026 (full day on Thursday and half-day on Friday). Shira Perlmutter, the 14th Register of Copyrights, will be the opening keynote speaker. The conversation will continue over 1.5 days at Columbia on October 23–24, 2026. Symposium essays will be published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts.
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