Event Summary

Interested in learning about copyrights?

Do you have a creative work that you want to copyright?

Come learn about the basics of copyright at this presentation and Q & A session:

U.S. Copyright Basics

What is a copyright?

Who owns a copyright?

When does a copyright exist?

What is the effect of registration?

What is the effect of a copyright notice?

What is a release?

What is a license?

Copyrighted works involving people or third party works

Basics of Fair Use

Remedies in the United States

DMCA

Facilitators:

Keith Kupferschmid - CEO of Copyright Alliance

Samantha Levin - Legal Fellow, Copyright Alliance

Keith Kupferschmid CEO Before joining the Copyright Alliance, Keith served as the General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). During his 16 years at SIIA, he represented and advised SIIA member software and content companies on intellectual property (IP) policy, legal and enforcement matters.

He has testified before Congress and various federal and state government agencies on IP issues and also supervised SIIA’s Anti-Piracy Division, including working with federal and state government officials on civil and criminal piracy cases.

Prior to joining SIIA, Keith worked as an IP attorney at the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, IP attorney-advisor at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Director of Intellectual Property at the United States Trade Representative, and Policy Planning Advisor at the U.S. Copyright Office.

Samantha Levin is the 2020-2021 Legal Fellow for the Copyright Alliance. Select internship and clerkship experience includes the International Game Developers Association Foundation, the Entertainment Software Association, the National Music Publishers’ Association, the United States Copyright Office, and the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

Samantha’s work in copyright includes research for a Supreme Court amicus brief, editing the forthcoming Oxford University Press Music Law Handbook, and providing research and editing support for Senate hearing testimony and various law journal articles. Samantha has authored a law review article which received Second Prize in the 2020 Berkeley Technology Law Journal Student Writing Competition and was recently published by the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology. In addition to working in copyright law, Samantha is a streamer, creator, and blogger.

Samantha earned her J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law, and her B.A. in economics and B.A. in biology from Emory University.

Visit Copyright Alliance's website at: http://copyrightalliance.org/ 

Event Details

• Date

  April 21, 2021

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• Time

  11:00am - 12:30pm

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• Partner

  Copyright Alliance

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• Venue

  Online