Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court has in the past several years begun to take several intellectual property cases each term, often including important copyright cases, like last term’s American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. At the same time, the legislature has already substantially revised patent rights, seems to be ready to revisit patent rights yet again, and is poised to consider revisions to copyright. On the table seem to be issues of the length of copyright term, fair use, and more. Our panel of experts will discuss the past present and future of IP and copyright. -- The Federalist Society's Intellectual Property Practice Group presented this panel on "Copyright Revision" on Thursday, November 13, during the 2014 National Lawyers Convention. -- Featuring: Ms. Danielle Aguirre, Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, National Music Publishers’ Association; Mr. Usman Ahmed, Policy Counsel, eBay Inc.; Prof. David S. Olson, Associate Professor of Law, Boston College Law School; Ms. Katherine A. Oyama, Senior Copyright Policy Counsel, Google, Inc.; and Prof. Mark F. Schultz, Senior Scholar and Director of Academic Programs, Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, George Mason University School of Law; Law Professor, Southern Illinois University. Moderator: Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit; Professor of Law, George Mason University.
