15 Year Retrospective of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
March 15, 2013
Mission Room, Benson Center
Santa Clara University
Similar to our extremely popular 15 year retrospective on 47 USC §230 in 2011, the conference will look at the past, present and future of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
8:45-9:00 Welcome (video)
- Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation
9:00-9:45 Bruce Lehman, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce (slides) (video)
Special Guest U.S. Representative Goodlatte (video)
9:45-9:50 Panel Transition
9:50-10:50 Panel 1: 1201 and 1202 (video)
- Moderator: Jennifer Stisa Granick, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (slides)
- Ed Felten, Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy
- Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara University School of Law (slides)
10:50-11:05 Break
11:05-12:05 Panel 2: 1201 Rulemaking (video)
- Moderator: Marcia Hofmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Rob Kasunic, U.S. Copyright Office
- Christian Genetski, Entertainment Software Association
- Rebecca Tushnet, Organization for Transformative Works/Georgetown Law
12:05-1:05 Lunch
1:05-1:50 Panel 3: 512 History (video)
- Facilitator: David Kramer, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Judge Ronald Whyte, Senior United States District Judge, Northern District of California
- Jay Monahan, Zynga
1:50-2:20 512 Cases: A Judge’s Perspective (video)
- Facilitator: Judge Ronald Whyte, Senior United States District Judge, Northern District of California
- Judge A. Howard Matz, Senior United States District Judge, Central District of California
2:20-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 Panel 4: 512 Litigation (video)
- Moderator: Annemarie Bridy, University of Idaho College of Law
- Andrew Bridges, Fenwick & West LLP
- Jeffrey Mausner, former outside counsel for Perfect 10 (slides) (presentation transcript)
- Michael Robertson, DAR.fm
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Panel 5: 512 Operations (video)
- Moderator: Jennifer Stanley, Fenwick & West LLP
- Daphne Keller, Google Inc.
- Elizabeth Valentina, Fox Entertainment Group
- Daniel Seng, National University of Singapore/Stanford Law School
5:00-5:15 Concluding Remarks
- Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University School of Law
5:15-6:15 Reception
CLE: This event will qualify for 6 hours of CLE. Santa Clara Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
Co-sponsors:
Conference Resources
Ian C. Ballon, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise with Forms, § 4.12 (Use Promo Code 666686 at checkout, to receive a discount on the book purchase at legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Practice-Materials/E-Commerce–Internet-Law-Treatise-with-Forms-2d/p/100006780)
Capitol Records Inc. et al. v. MP3TUNES, LLC et al.
Ebay Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program
Electronic Frontier Foundation issue page on the DMCA
Felten, et al., v. RIAA, et al. Resource Page
Edward Felten, The Chilling Effects of the DMCA, (March 29, 2013), Slate.com
Organization for Transformative Works Legal Advocacy Page
Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc., 416 F. Supp. 2d 828 (C.D. Cal. 2006)
A Preliminary Draft of the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights
Religious Tech. Ctr. v. Netcom On-Line Commun. Servs., 907 F. Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Technology_Center_v._Netcom
www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/907_FSupp_1361.htm
US Copyright Office Resource Page on 17 U.S.C. § 120
Jennifer M. Urban and Laura Quilter, Symposium Review, Efficient Process or Chilling Effects – Takedown Notices under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 22 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECH. L.J. 621 (2006). Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/chtlj/vol22/iss4/1