Can You Hear Me Now? : On-Demand Intellectual Property CLE

A fireside chat with two senior executives from Verizon: Executive Vice President Tom Tauke and Assistant Vice President Link Hoewing.
Among other topics, Tom and Link talk about the role ISPs should play when it comes to discouraging copyright infringement online, and the federal regulations that are today both encouraging and constraining innovation in wireless and wireline service.
UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman hosts.
Title:
Can You Hear Me Now?
Known Credit Approvals:
CA, FL, IL, NE, NY, PA, TN, TX, WA
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View Recording:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/19.html

The Bilski Oral Argument: On-Demand CLE

The Bilski case has understandably generated an enormous wealth of commentary, including eight-plus amicus briefs, dozens of thoughtful articles, and hundreds of blog posts, CLE seminars, and the like.
Here at IP Colloquium, we therefore thought that the best way for us to add value would be to do something admittedly unconventional. Specifically, the Supreme Court has released a transcript of the Bilski oral argument but has not yet released actual audio of the event. Our thought was that one of the best ways to learn about the case would be to listen to the arguments the parties actually made and to hear the questions that Chef Justice Roberts and his colleagues actually posed. So, this month, we stage a reading of the transcript, with a dozen UCLA law students lending their voices for each relevant attorney or justice.
UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman hosts."
Title:
The Bilski Oral Argument
Sponsor:

Intellectual Property Colloquium:

Credit:
1 Credit CA NH NY PA WA
Listen Now:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/11.html

Can Content Survive Online? - an On-Demand CLE

The music, publishing and motion picture industries are each today struggling to identify new business models that might replace existing mechanisms for funding professional content. This edition of the Intellectual Property Colloquium considers the legal and strategic roadblocks that might stand in the way.
Title:  
 Can Content Survive Online?
Speakers: 

• Brad Smith, General Counsel, Microsoft
• Scott Martin, Executive Vice President, Intellectual property, Paramount Pictures
• Dan Cooper, Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs, MySpace
• Host: UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman.

By:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
The sponsor does not appear to be reporting credit; you will have to do that yourself (which is only fair because, you know: free!). 

• Washington State - 1 AV General, MCLE ID 241076
• Other States - please consult your credit-granting authority.

More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/10.html

Derivative Work - On-Demand MCLE

Recently, RDR books endeavored to publish  an unauthorized encyclopedia of all things Harry Potter. Warner Brothers filed suit, and the resulting litigation turned out to be a fascinating fight over the precise contours of copyright law's "derivative work" right.
In this audio we look back at that now-settled case, using it as a launching point from which to consider not only the scope of the derivative work right, but also some practical questions about when and whether a copyright holder ought to enforce such a right as against fan-produced materials.
Title:
Derivative Work
Speakers:

• Warner Brothers' Senior Vice President Jeremy Williams
• Opposing counself from the RDR case, Anthony Falzone of the Standford Fair Use Project
• UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman (hosts)

Sponsor:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
The sponsor does not appear to be reporting credit; you will have to do that yourself (which is only fair because, you know: free!). 

• Washington State - This was recorded in 2009. Recordings must be heard within 5 years of the date of recording. If you have not heard this recording by now, you can't claim credit. Othersise: 1 AV General, MCLE ID 237373
• Other States - please consult your credit-granting authority.

More:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/9.html

Anytime/Web - Patent Reform: Damages

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over patent reform is the question of how, if at all, Congress should change the way courts calculate patent damages.
To understand that fight, this audio examines a series of editted excerpts from testimony recently given before the Senate and, separately, the Federal Trade Commission, all on the question of damages reform. The goal here is not to advoace for a particular legislative outcome, but instead to understand why damages calculations are so hard, and to explore the spectrum of possible responses.
Title: 
Patent Reform: Damages
Host:
Doug Lichtma, UCLA Law School
Sponsor:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/7.html

Anytime/Web - Everyone Hates #DRM

Another great program from Intellectual Property Colloquium:
"Ten years ago, the rights and responsibilities associated with copyright protection were largely delivered by federal law. Today, while those explicit rules are obviously still important, a meaningful discussion of copyright protection can't help but also include technological protections -- like the encryption technologies that serve to discourage consumers from making unauthorized copies of their DVDs, or the watermarks that to some degree allow copyright holders to detect when their audio or video content shows up without permission on a site like YouTube. These so-called "digital rights management" or DRM technologies are impacting every aspect of the copyright equation.
On this edition of the show, we therefore set out to take a comprehensive tour of the technology, law and strategy of DRM. Guest include Ed Felten from Princeton University and Randy Picker from the University of Chicago."
Title:
Everyone Hates DRM
Listen Now:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/6.html

Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation

Joel Tenenbaum looks a lot like every other defendant who has been accused by the music industry of illegally sharing copyrighted work online, but with one key difference: his defense attorney is Harvard Law School Professor Charlie Nesson, and Nesson is out to turn his case into a public referendum not only on the music industry's efforts to enforce copyright through these direct-infringer suits, but also on the copyright rules that make the industry litigation possible.
This program engages Nesson's key arguments, focusing especially on Nesson's claim that copyright law's statutory damages regime runs afoul of constitutional protections against excessive and/or arbitrary civil damages awards.
Title: 
Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation
Speakers:

• Professor Nesson
• Steven Marks, General Counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America
• Professor Catherine Sharkey, New York University
• Professor Dan Markel, Florida State
• Professor Thomas Colby, George Washington University
• Moderating: Professor Doug Lichtman moderates, UCLE.

CLE credit:
California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and likely more via reciprocity. 
Listen Now:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/5.html

A Conversation with Chief Judge Paul Michel - an On-Demand CLE

The Honorable Paul Michel currently serves as Chief Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit and, in that role, has overseen a period of enormous growth and change in the patent system.
In this audio presentation, Chief Judge Michel joins moderator Doug Lichtman to talk patent reform, thinking not only about what has been accomplished in recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions, but also about what work is left ahead for Congress, the Supreme Court, the Patent Office, and the Federal Circuit itself.
Title:

A Conversation with Chief Judge Paul Michel

Sponsor:

Intellectual Property Colloquium
Listen Now:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/4.html

Privacy in Networked World: On-Demand MCLE

Social networking sites, search engines, and the like all gather an enormous amount of information about individual users. The information has value to these businesses in terms of tailoring advertisements and calibrating product offerings and pricing.
But what constraints does the law place upon the acquisition, storage and use of this data?
In this program, we will look at privacy law from a distinctly modern perspective, using recent controversies to highlight not only relevant rules but also strategic tradeoffs inherent in collecting personal information from a user community.
Title:
Privacy in Networked World
Speakers:
Doug Lichtman
By:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
1 Credit in CA, NY, PA, WA
BUT NOTE: this was recorded in 2008 and so may not be eligible for credit.
More:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/3.html

You Tube, My Take: An On-Demand CLE

Should Google be held responsible for the copyright infringement that its YouTube website facilitates?
This audio recording engages the issues by drawing on excerpts from the voluminous materials filed over the past three years in the Viacom/Google litigation. Specifically, it considers how both Viacom and Google frame the basic case, and critically explores each side's position with respect to the storage, knowledge and control issues raised by section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Title:
You Tube, My Take
Speaker:
UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman.
By:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
CA, NH, NY, PA, WA. For other jurisdictions, you might be able to apply for credit with the appropriate agency.
More:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/14.html

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Anytime/Web - A Conversation with Fred von Lohman

Fred von Lohman is literally one of those special voices who needs no introduction. Agree with him, think his views extreme, or fall anywhere in between, one can still not help but respect and be thoughtfully engaged by his comprehensive and careful views on the proper scope and struture of federal copyright law.
In this audio presentation, join us as Fred and moderator Doug Lichtman engage a group of UCLA law students in a wide-ranging conversation about the Cablevision case, third-party liability, and copyright law's struggle to simultaneously encourage authorship while leaving adequate flexibility for distruptive technologies.
Listen Now:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/1.html
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The Intellectual Property Colloquium is an online audio program devoted to intellectual property topics. We aspire to be something like an NPR talk show, but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed primarily at a legal audience.
Our programs are neither lectures nor debates. They are instead conversations,with guests drawn from academia, the entertainment community, the judiciary, and various technology industries. Each program lasts one hour and can either be played on the site or downloaded to any PC or MP3 player. Morever, lawyers who listen to the show can earn free CLE credit in California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and soon over a dozen other states.
The Colloquium is hosted by Doug Lichtman. Its student director is Chris Moen. Our current show, an archive of previous programs, a schedule of up-coming audios, and various subscription methods are all available at the site."
More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com

Anytime/Web - The Federal Trade Commission & Patent System Reform

The Federal Trade Commission just released its much-anticipated second report on patent system reform. And, on this edition of the IP Colloquium, two of the principal drafters of that report – Suzanne Michel of the Office of Policy Planning, and Deputy General Counsel William Cohen – join UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman to talk about its specific reform recommendations: http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/18.html

The Intellectual Property Colloquium is an online audio program devoted to intellectual property topics. We aspire to be something like an NPR talk show, but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed primarily at a legal audience.

Our programs are neither lectures nor debates. They are instead conversations,with guests drawn from academia, the entertainment community, the judiciary, and various technology industries.

Each program lasts one hour and can either be played on the site or downloaded to any PC or MP3 player. Morever, lawyers who listen to the show can earn free CLE credit in California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and soon over a dozen other states.

The Colloquium is hosted by Doug Lichtman. Its student director is Chris Moen. Our current show, an archive of previous programs, a schedule of up-coming audios, and various subscription methods are all available at the site."

Link:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/18.html

Web/Anytime - Tim Wu and The Master Switch by Intellectual Property Colloquium

Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu has been one of the leading voices in the debate over network neutrality. He is a scholar of both copyright and telecommunications law; and, over the years, he has developed some pretty influential views about how legal rules impact innovation. Tim just wrote a summary of his views in the form of pop-press book entitled, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

On this edition of the IP Colloquium, he joins UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman to talk about that book, and the ideas it articulates about innovation and competition.
Link: www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/17.html

The show lasts one hour; it can be streamed or downloaded from the page linked below; approved for CLE Credit in several jurisdictions.

More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/17.html

More Than A Game: On-Demand CLE

The complicated relationship between game manufacturers and the big three console producers, and the licensing arrangements under which video game companies make games based on intellectual property like the Harry Potter characters or the names and likenesses of NFL players, are the subjects of this edition of the Intellectual Property Colloquium
Speakers include chief legal officers from three major video game studios:

• Steve Bene of Electronic Arts,
• Seth Kraus of Take-Two, and
• Chris Walther of Activision Blizzard
• Host: Closet video game fan and UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman.

Title:

More Than A Game

When/Where:

On Demand Recording

Credit:
California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and  other states.
More Information

Web - A Conversation with Chief Judge Randall Rader

In this edition of the IP Colloquium, the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, joins us to discuss a wide range of legal and policy issues related to the nation's patent system.

The conversation is a frank and open discussion, with exchanges about (among other things) the need for Federal Circuit judges to experience district court proceedings in order to meaningfully evaluate them, and the possibility that independent creation is in fact evidence of patent obviousness. UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman hosts.

The show lasts one hour; it can be streamed or downloaded from the page linked below; and, if you are a lawyer, you might be able to earn free CLE credit just for listening. Visit the Intellectual Property Colloquium for more details.

Program: A Conversation with Chief Judge Randall Rader


Link: www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/15.html

Copyright Termination - an On-Demand CLE on Intellectual Property

Copyright law has long recognized in authors an unwaivable right to terminate certain contracts and licensing agreements. A handful of high-profile cases have already called substantial attention to this terminal provision, with disrupts touching such iconic characters as Superman, Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Lassie, and Winne the Pooh.
This edition of the IP Colloquium is a conversation about the termination right, its controversies, and the implications for modern copyright practice.
Title:
Copyright Termination
Sponsor:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Speakers:

• Peter Menell, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
• David Nimmer, Author of Nimmer on Copyright
• Doug Lichtman, Professor, UCLA School of Law

More:www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/13.html

First Sale Doctrine - On-Demand MCLE

Copyright law's first sale doctrine might seem straightforward. On its face, it tells us that, after the first sale of a particular object that embodies a copyrighted work, the copyright holder's rights are exhausted, and the relevant embodiment is therefore free to flow in the stream of commerce.
But what happens if the original buyer agrees by contract not to resell? And what if the original sale is not a sale at all, but instead is characterized by the parties as a license? And what if that embodiment is not physical but instead digital?
This edition of the IP Colloquium IP Colloquium sets out to understand the first sale doctrine, tracing its public policy justifications and comparing copyright's approach to that of antitrust.
Title:
First Sale Doctrine
When/Where:
On-Demand Recording 
Speakers:

• UC Irvine's Tony Reese
• Boston University's Michael Salinger
• George Mason Law Professor Josh Wright
• UCLA's Doug Lichtman hosts. 

Credit: 
CA, FL, NH, NY, PA, WA.
More Information, including more about the faculty, recommended reading and credit info:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/12.html

Web/AV - In Re Bilski

Intellectual Property Colloqium has another innovative online course, this time concerning In Re Bilski.

In its recent decision in In Re Bilski, the Federal Circuit articulates a new test for whether a given innovative process falls within the subject matter of federal patent law. In this audio presentation, Professors Rob Merges and John Duffy join moderator Doug Lichtman to think through what the new test actually means; where it came from; and whether it will actually change the knds of patents that issue.

Access Audio and other links here

For CLE credit, you may have to check with your own jurisdiction, but the "Request CLE Credit" button on that page lists California, Illinois, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Washington State.

Shepard Fairey v. Associated Press: On-Demand MCLE

Every year, at least one major copyright case brings to the fore the complexity, importance, and unpredictability of fair use analysis. That case in 2009 was Shepard Fairey v. The Associated Press.
Title:

Shepard Fairey v. The Associated Press
Speakers:

• Mark Lemley, who represented the artist
• Dale Cendali, who represented the AP
• Ken Richieri, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the New York Times
• Host: Doug Lichtman, UCLA law professor.

By:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
The sponsor does not appear to be reporting credit; you will have to do that yourself (which is only fair because, you know: free!). 

• Washington State - 1 AV General, MCLE ID 235621
• California, New York, Pennsylvania: 1 AV Credit 
• Other States - please consult your credit-granting authority.

More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/8.html