May 12, 2010
Keith Ashby and Peter McInerney
Axel aus der Muhlen Memorial Lecture on International Law:  Are You Okay in the UK?  An Update on Online Piracy, Formats, Privacy and Defamation Law Across the Pond

April 14, 2010
Lee Phillips and Eric Custer
Music Rights Terminators:  They'll Be Back

March 10, 2010
James Juo and Scott Hansen
Three Ways to Skin a Copycat: How Design Patents Overlap with Copyright and Trade Dress

February 10, 2010
Erika Solti Shaeffer, Slyvie Maracci and Elena Muravina
Copyright Issues in International Productions: a panel discussion

January 13, 2010
Thomas Burke
Whether a Rolling Stone Will Gather No Loss:  A Rock N' Roll Tribute Meets a Right of Publicity Class Action

December 9, 2009
Bob Clarida and Tom Kjellberg
Current Developments In Copyright

November 11, 2009
Ian Ballon
Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick:  A View From The Trenches

October 13, 2009
Kal Raustiala
Knockoffs and Fashion Victims: Why We Don't Need a Design Piracy Protection Act

September 9, 2009
Robert Rotstein
Is Amazon Watching?:  The First Sale Doctrine In the Age of eBooks and Movie Downloads 

June 3, 2009
John Schulman and Jeremy Williams
Holding On And Letting Go 

May 13, 2009
Monique Wadsted
Copyright Protection On The Internet - A European Challenge: The Struggle Against The PirateBay or How Sweden Became An Internet Piracy Haven

April 1, 2009
Tony Falzone
April Fools!  Plaintiff Wins Fair Use Trial, But Defendant Is Publishing A New Manuscript Anyway!: Recent Developments In Fair Use And Free Expression

March 11, 2009
Louis Petrich
Inspector Clouseau, Clark Kent and Lassie Walk Into A Courtroom: Terminating Copyright Transfers - Recent Case Law Developments

February 11, 2009
Janis C. Nelson and Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Trouble in River City: Ethics in Entertainment Practice.  A Conversation with Janis C. Nelson, Esq. and Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow

January 14, 2009
Jay Dougherty
Copyright (and Media too) Year In Review

December 3, 2008
Michael S. Elkin
Io v. Veoh: Application of DMCA Safe Harbors to UGC Sites

November 6, 2008
Alan Braverman
Living in a World of User Digital Distribution: The UGC Principles - a Case Study

September 10, 2008
David Aronoff
Exploding the Inverse Ratio Rule

May 7, 2008
Simon Frankel
Control Of Public Domain Images And Other Intersections of Copyright And Contract

April 2, 2008
Larry Steinberg
Has The Worm Turned: Personal Managers and Procuring Employment - Recent Developments Under The Talent Agency Act

March 5, 2008
William Patry
Copyright Or Copywrong: The Top Ten Worst Copyright Decisions

January 9, 2007
Jonathan Zavin
Injunctive Relief in Copyright Cases: Not So Fast

December 5, 2007
Professor Neil Netanel
Copyright Developments: What Happened in 2007 and What to Expect in 2008

November 7, 2007
Ron Gertz
It's (Not) The Same Old Song: Music Rights In A Digital Age

October 3, 2007
Richard Owens
Copyright & Technology: Legal, Political and Market Challenges.  A View From WIPO

September 11, 2007
Jeff Mausner, Andrew Bridges & Jay Spillane
Recent Important Cases Involving Secondary Liability, Fair Use, The DMCA and Right of Publicity: Perfect 10 v. Google, Visa and CCBill

June 6, 2007
Fred von Lohmann
Developing Dolphin-Safe DMCA Takedowns:  Responsibly Policing User-Generated Content

May 2, 2007
Charles Alexander & Carolyn Dalton
3rd Axel aus der Mühlen Memorial Lecture On International Law

Copyright Reform Australian Style: Recent Developments and Emerging Copyright Reform Issues Down Under

April 4, 2007
Anthony Falzone & Michael Donaldson
Creative Coverage: Documentary Film Makers Get New "Fair Use Insurance" - How Much Do They Need It?

March 7, 2007
Judith Finell
Scandalous Notes: Applying The New Musical Reality To Film And Television Music

February 7, 2007    
Dale Cendali
The Dilution Solution? Implications of Recent Amendments to the Trademark Statute

January 10, 2007  
Professor Neil Netanel
2006 - Copyright Year in Review

December 6, 2006  
Neville Johnson, Gerald Weiner
The Music Download Class Action Suits

November 1, 2006  
Glen Kulik & Lou Petrich
Plenty More Plaintiffs Pursuing Purloined Pitches?: The Status And Future Of Idea Submission Law Post-Grosso

October 4, 2006
Gary Bostwick
The Book Review And The Fair-Used Photo: A Case Study In Trying Section 107 To A Jury

September 13, 2006
Bonnie Eskenazi
Termination of Transfers after the Winnie The Pooh Case

June 7, 2006
William Patry
A Conversation with William Patry about Fair Use

May 3, 2006
Carole Handler & Jimmy Nguyen
The Medium is the Message: How New Media Technologies Will Transform Copyright Protection and Limits

April 5, 2006
Christoph Wagner and Winston Maxwell
2nd Axel aus der Mühlen Memorial Lecture On International Law
Recent Copyright Law Developments in France and Germany

March 10-11, 2006
L.A.C.S. Conference at La Costa Resort
Speaker and Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award, Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights.  Pictures from the event: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Other speakers:  David O. Carson, David Nimmer, Jeff Mausner, Robert Clarida, Lionel S. Sobel, Stacey Byrnes, Mark Roesler, Prof. J. Dougherty and Susan Aslan

February 8, 2006
Professor David Kohler
Sending Central Hudson Down The River:  What Abandoning The "Commercial Speech" Test Would Mean For Advertising And Right Of Publicity Law

January 11, 2006
Robert Schwartz and Josh Wattles
Grokster: The Case, The Holding, The Future

December 7, 2005 
Lou Petrich and Robert H.Rotstein
The Use of Marks in Movies and the Impact of Parody

November 2, 2005
Elliot Brown
Crystals, Pixels and Light: The Curious Case of Mannion v. Coors

September 14, 2005
Ron Gertz
Music Machinations:  The Changing Landscape Of The Statutory Licenses for Musical Works and Sound Recordings

May 4, 2005
David Nimmer
Codifying Copyright Comprehensibly

April 13, 2005
Lawrence Heller & Eric Stockel
That, and $15 Million, Will Get You a Jar of Coffee: A Discussion of the Recent Nestle Right of Publicity Case

March 2, 2005
Glen A. Bloom
1st Axel aus der Mühlen Memorial Lecture On International Law:
Recent Developments in Canadian Copyright Law and the On-Going Shifts in the Canada/US IP law divide

February 2, 2005
Jay Dougherty
Your Karma Ran Over My Dogma: Issues in Copyright Protection for Yoga Sequences, Sports Plays and Choreography

January 12, 2005
Jo-Ellen Dimitrius, Ph.D.
Jury Selection In Intellectual Property / Privacy / Publicity Cases

December 1, 2004
David Lyle & David Shall
All About Formats

November 3, 2004
Robert H. Rotstein
Digital Video Recorders and the Law of Copyright

October 6, 2004
Lou Petrich and Lincoln Bandlow.
Recent cases involving Copyright and the Right of Privacy: Bochco and Gates

September 6, 2004
Michael D. Lewis
Legal Issues Concerning Creation and Licensing of Content Distributed On-Line and Wirelessly

May 5, 2004
Richard B. Kendall
Format Rights

April 14, 2004
Professor Eugene Volokh
Freedom of Speech and Intellectual Property: A Survey of Some Important Remaining Questions

March 3, 2004
Bruce Keller
Trademark, Copyright And Other Challenges To Props/ Background Scenery in Film

February 4, 2004
Adrian Barr-Smith
Recent UK and European Developments in Copyright and Neighboring Rights

January 7, 2004
David Halberstadter & Harrison Dossick
Professional Responsibilities of Outside and Corporate Counsel in the Entertainment Industry

December 3, 2003
George Borkowski and Michael Page
The Grokster/Kaaza/Aimster litigation

November 5, 2003
Fred Meeker
The Enforceability of Shrinkwrap/Clickwrap Agreements

October 1, 2003
Douglas E. Mirell
Worming Around the First Amendment: An Overview of Recent Developments in Publicity Rights Litigation

September 10, 2003
Bruce E. H. Johnson & Kelli Sager
The Nike v. Kasky Case 

June 4, 2003
Marybeth Peters, US Register of Copyrights
What Can you Legally Use Without Paying For It? 

May 7, 2003
David Nimmer
Plagiarism Revisited: Current issues relating to plagiarism such as passing off, reverse passing off, and violation of the claimed right of attribution

April 10, 2003
Dale Cendali
Copyright & Trademark: The Year in Review

March 5, 2003
Stéphane Lieser
Moral Rights 10+ Years After The Asphalt Jungle Case: Still a jungle?  

February 5, 2003
Grace Reiner
Copyright Ownership and Separated Rights

November 6, 2002
Peter Jaszi  
Eldred v. Ashcroft: The Challenge to the 20-Year Copyright Extension

October 2, 2002
Russell Frackman
Trademark and the First Amendment: Fred and Ginger dance into the Ninth Circuit

September 4, 2002
Dean Marks  
Washington and Hollywood: Proposed copyright legislation and its potential effects on the entertainment industry  

May 1, 2002
Jeffrey Kravitz
Do you Believe in Magic?:  IP Protection for Magic and Illusions

April 3, 2002
Stephen F. Rohde
Kidnapping the Son of Sam Law: A Victory for the First Amendment or a Defeat for Victims' Rights?

March 6, 2002
Jared Jussim
The European Civil Law (A Different Legal Tradition): How & Why It Differs from Common Law

February 6, 2002
Gary Bostwick
Use of the anti-SLAPP Statute in Media Litigation

January  9, 2002
Barbara Beebe
Creative Accounting in the Entertainment Industry:  How to Follow the Money

December 5, 2001
Robert Thorne
P.T. Barnum Redux:  Tales in Building a Billion Dollar Brand.

November 7, 2001
Lionel Sobel
Royalties from Abroad

October 3, 2001
Joel McCabe Smith
Silver Screen Stars, Stooges and Surfers:  California's Right of Publicity Law in the aftermath of Hoffman, Saderup and Abercrombie

September 5, 2001
Henry J. Tashman
Statutory Damages in Copyright Cases:  Constitutionality and Application by the Courts and Juries

May 2, 2001
Zazi Pope
Copycat Crime Litigation and the First Amendment:  A Review of the Natural Born Killers Case

April 4, 2001
Carole Handler
When Intellectual Property Rights Restrict Competition -- The interface of antitrust, trademark and copyright law

March 7, 2001
Donald S. Passman
Music Update: Challenges in the Digital Age”

February 7, 2001
Robert Rotstein
Copyright, Trademark and the Scope of the Fair use Parody Defense:  Columbia Pictures v. TeeVeeToons

January 3, 2001
Russell J. Frackman
A&M Records vs. Napster:  Or How I Spent My Summer Vacation

December 6, 2000
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D., Professor, NYU
The End of Copyright:  Technology and the Threat to the Information Commons

November 1, 2000
Joe Eisenberg
What Every Good Entertainment Lawyer Needs to Know about Bankruptcy

October 4, 2000
Jon A. Baumgarten
Cease and DeCSS'd:  The DVD Encryption Case in the Broader Context of New Technology and the Protection of Motion Picture Copyrights

September 6, 2000
Ian C. Ballon
Fair Use in Cyberspace

May 3, 2000
Lon Sobel
Recent Developments in the Law of Entertainment Lawyering:  Cautionary Tales about Letter-Writing (Cease-and-Desist, Opinion, Settlement Confirmation, and Conflict Waiver), Sanctions, Fees Malpractice, Lawyers as Private Investigators, and Messing with Don Engel

April 5, 2000
Joseph M. Beck
The cases of Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. v. CBS and Rosa Parks v. LaFace:  Civil Rights heroes, Copyright, Fair Use, The First Amendment and "Symbolic Conflicts"

March 1, 2000
Ed Labowitz, Stephanie Lieser
Moral Rights - An International Perspective

February 2, 2000
Rex Heinke
Los Angeles Times and Washington Post v. Free Republic:  Fair Use and Freedom of Speech

January 5, 2000
Ron Gertz
Music Rights in the Digital Age - They Aren't What You Think They Are

December 1, 1999
Kathryn A. Young
Using Trademarks in Film:  Is it Worth the Risk?

November 3, 1999
Mark Flagel and Dan Shecter
Why Worry About Patents?  (After all My Client has Never Been Injured by a Stealth Bomber)

October 6, 1999
Steven Pena
Creation of Entertainment Content for the Internet

September 8, 1999
Jeremy Williams
Of Laws and Sausage:  The Right of Publicity in Sacramento

December 2, 1998
David Dunn
Recent Developments in Fair Use and Copyright Issues:  Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group, Inc.

November 4, 1998
Roger L. Mayer
The Legal and Practical Consequences of Film Preservation (or the Lack Thereof!)

October 7, 1998
Kelli L. Sager
Recent Developments in Misappropriation and Right of Publicity Law

September 9, 1998
Professor Eugene Volokh
Copyright Law and the First Amendment's Procedural Rules

April 1998
Juliette Youngblood
The Spider In The Web: The Top 10 Ways To Get Stung With A Website

October 8, 1997
Harvey E. Harrison
A Declaration of Independence - The Call for Legislative Abolition of Most Exclusivity Provisions in Employment Agreements in the Entertainment Industry

April 2, 1997
Robert Lind
Copyright Protection for Creations of Nonhumans:  Celestial Beings, Chimpanzees and Computers.