Opening Keynote & 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 (Keynote), Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright Office
Jessica Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School
Peter Menell, Koret Professor of Law, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law Professor of School Information, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and Intellectual Property, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel 2
How Broken Termination Promises, Overlooked Creators, and Market Consolidation Undermined the 1976 Act’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 J. McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Faculty Co-Director of the GW Bernard Center for Law and Technology, Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program, Member, Project Board, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, 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, Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and Intellectual Property, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Lunch Keynote
A View from the Bench: Technology and the 1976 Copyright Act | Apr 16, 2026
Instructor(s)
Hon. M. Margaret McKeown (Keynote), Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Panel 3
How the Scope of Copyright’s Exclusive Rights and Their Enforcement is Shaped by the Statute’s Text and Interstices | 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, William C. Conner Chair in Law, Professor, University of Texas School of Law
Justin Hughes, Hon. William Matthew Byrne, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics, Loyola Law School
Laura Heymann, James G. Cutler Professor of Law, William and Mary Law School
Erik Stallman, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel 4
How the 1976 Act and Misreading of its Legislative History Have Shaped the Relationship Between Federal and State Copyright Law | Apr 16, 2026
Instructor(s)
R. Anthony Reese, Chancellor’s 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,Vincent J. Marella Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Peter Menell, Koret Professor of Law, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel 5
How Copyright and Private Ordering Have Shaped Protection for Software from the 1976 Act to the AI Age | Apr 17, 2026
Instructor(s)
Clark Asay, Professor and Associate Dean for Research & Academic Affairs, BYU Law
A. Feder Cooper, Professor, Yale University
Jule Sigall, former Microsoft General Counsel
Pamela Samuelson, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel 6 & Closing Remarks
What the Future of the 1976 Act Might Hold for Nonexpressive Uses, Fan Works, Orphan Works, and AI Training | Apr 17, 2026
Instructor(s)
Daniel Gervais, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law, Director, Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, and Faculty Co-Director, LL.M. Program, Vanderbilt Law School
Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science, Emory University School of Law
Rebecca Tushnet, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Jennifer Urban, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of Policy Initiatives, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Peter Menell, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of Policy Initiatives, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of School Information, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & 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