Panel 1
How the 1976 Copyright Act’s Foundational Compromises Shaped—and Failed—Authors’ Rights Across Fifty Years | Apr 16, 2026
Instructor(s)
Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright Office
Jessica Litman, Professor, University of Michigan Law School
Jane Ginsburg, Professor, Columbia Law School
Peter Menell, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel 2
How Market Consolidation and Broken Termination Promises Undermined Copyright’s Author-Centered Design | Apr 16, 2026
Instructor(s)
Tyler Ochoa, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
David Nimmer, Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law, and Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP, author of Nimmer on Copyright
Robert Brauneis, Michael McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Co-Director, GW Barnard Center for Law and Technology, George Washington University Law School
Peter DiCola, Professor of Law and Director of the JD-PhD Program, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Lunch Keynote
How Generative AI Is Reshaping Fair Use and Authorship Under the 1976 Copyright Act | Apr 16, 2026
Instructor(s)
Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Molly Van Houweling, UC Berkeley Law
Erik Stallman, UC Berkeley Law
Panel 3
How Cox Communications Reshaped Secondary Liability and Redrew Copyright Enforcement Boundaries | Apr 16, 2026
Instructor(s)
Christopher Sprigman, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, NYU School of Law
Oren Bracha, Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law
Justin Hughes, Distinguished Professor of Law and Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics, Loyola Law School
Laura Heymann, Professor of Law, William and Mary Law School
Erik Stallman, Clinical Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel 4
How a Mismatch Between the House Report and the Enacted Section 301 Corrupted Copyright Preemption Doctrine | April 16, 2026
Instructor(s)
R. Anthony Reese, Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law
Marketa Trimble, Professor of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
Guy Rub, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Peter Menell, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel 5
How Generative AI Is Eroding the Copyright Foundation of Open Source Software Innovation | Apr 17, 2026
Instructor(s)
Clark Asay, BYU Law
A. Feder Cooper, Yale University
Jule Sigall, former Microsoft
Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley Law
Panel 6
Non-Consumptive Use, Orphan Works, and AI Training’s Stress Test of Copyright’s Licensing Architecture | April 17, 2026
Instructor(s)
Daniel Gervais, Professor of Law (Emeritus), Vanderbilt Law School
Matthew Sag, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
Rebecca Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Jennifer Urban, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Peter Menell, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law