Symposium Speakers
Panel 1: Digital Performers and Virtual Creators In Entertainment Panel 2: Managing Talent and IP in the New Internet Panel 3: Fragmentation and the Future of IP Governance for Creators
Selling Nostalgia: Copyright’s Role in Hollywood’s Remake Boom
If you think Hollywood has been recycling your childhood lately, you’re not wrong. Whether it’s Disney’s live-action remakes of Snow White and Lilo & Stitch, DreamWorks’ live-action version of How…
Damien Hirst’s 200-Year Posthumous Art Plan: A Critical UK Copyright Perspective
Introduction Death is a central theme lingering in Damien Hirst’s art. Now, it’s making an appearance in an all-new way. In May of 2025, in an interview with the London…
The 2025 GENIUS Act: A First Step in Regulating Crypto and Blockchain
After almost two decades of near-unsupervised digital currency innovation, the United States has finally enacted legislation targeting one corner of the cryptocurrency (or “crypto”) ecosystem. In July 2025, President Trump…
JIPEL Vol. 15 – No. 1
You may view and download a PDF of the complete issue here. Our Fall 2025 Issue—Volume 15, Number 1—examines how intellectual property doctrine is straining (and adapting) across a set of…
De Minimis Copying: An Empirical Study
Jessica Silbey* & Samantha Zyontz** Download a PDF version of this article here. In the internet age, the copyright de minimis defense has increased in relevance as copyright lawsuits (and…
The Cost of Music: Has Digitization Made Copyright Obsolete?
Sean A. Pager* & Eric Priest** Download a PDF version of this article here. Commentators have repeatedly claimed that digital technologies render producers and recording engineers effectively obsolete. Supposedly, any…
Common Law Notice-and-Takedown
Michael P. Goodyear* Download a PDF version of this article here. Platform liability is a complex landscape under U.S. law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has generated significant…
Coordinated Patents
Taorui Guan* Download a PDF version of this article here. As the United States and China compete ever more intensely for technological primacy in fields ranging from artificial intelligence to…
Reasonable Intelligence: How Should Platforms Be Held Accountable For AI-Assisted Copyright Infringement?
Ben Anderson * Download a PDF version of this article here. AI platforms present a challenge for our current doctrines of secondary copyright infringement. Currently, AI platforms’ degree of exposure…