OVERVIEW
American jurisprudence around copyright’s fair use doctrine is in a state of flux. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s watershed decisions in Google v. Oracle and Warhol v. Goldsmith, lower courts are beginning to show signs that they are willing to revisit several of the doctrine’s core concepts such as commerciality, purpose and character, and market harm.
Professor Jason Schultz (NYU School of Law), visiting Australia and in-person, will discuss these trends in recent cases, including those concerning reposting of internet memes, unauthorised digital book lending, incorporation of technical standards into law, and, of course, the training, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence.
Please join us for this special event.
GUEST SPEAKER
Professor Jason M. Schultz, Clinical Law, NYU School of Law
MODERATOR
Professor Isabella Alexander, Director of Higher Degree Research in the Faculty of Law, UTS
Date: Wednesday 14 August, 2024
Venue: BANKI HADDOCK FIORA
Level 22, 85 Castlereagh St, Sydney
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GUEST SPEAKER
Professor Jason M. Schultz
Clinical Law, NYU School of Law
Jason M. Schultz is a Professor of Clinical Law, Director of NYU’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic, and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. His clinical projects, research, and writing primarily focus on practical frameworks and policy options to help traditional areas of law such as intellectual property, privacy, consumer protection, and civil rights adapt in light of new technologies and the challenges they pose. His most recent work focuses on the social and legal implications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.
During the 2016-2017 academic year, Professor Schultz was on leave to work at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he served as Senior Advisor on Innovation and Intellectual Property to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith.
With Aaron Perzanowski, he is the author of The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (MIT Press 2016), which argues for retaining consumer property rights in a marketplace that increasingly threatens them.
Prior to joining NYU, Professor Schultz was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Before joining Boalt Hall, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading digital rights groups in the world and before that practiced intellectual property law at the firm of Fish & Richardson, PC. He also served as a clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen of the Northern District of California. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
MODERATOR
Professor Isabella Alexander
Director of Higher Degree Research in the Faculty of Law, UTS
Isabella Alexander is a professor and Director of Higher Degree Research in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is the author of two monographs on the history of copyright law: Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Hart Publishing, 2023), and Copyright and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century (Hart Publishing, 2010). She is also co-editor, with Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, of Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2016) and currently the lead Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery grant, Hacking Copyright Law in the 21st Century: Art, Law, History and Technology.