IP-related opportunities for investors and businesses are growing, but so are challenges to IP certainty and value.
Film, music, publishing and invention leaders are saying transparency matters when it comes creative expression, including copyrights and patents, especially when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence.
The future of creatives and many businesses depends on knowing who is using copyrighted content, both theirs and others’, when and how? This requires an openness and ability to track content that is often lacking. Lack of transparency – the source IP rights, coupled with how and when they are being used – impacts society, investment and jobs, and can lead to theft and fakes.
The panel, IP source, fakes and theft – transparency matters, is part of the 2025 IP Awareness Summit that is being held by the nonprofit Center for IP Understanding in conjunction with Dolby Labs at Dolby’s headquarters in San Francisco on April 24th.
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The esteemed panelists for “Source, fakes and theft” are:
David Lowery is a lead singer-songwriter for the successful indie band, Cracker. He is author of more than 300 songs and is responsible for 25 albums. He is on the faculty of the business school at the U. of Georgia and a well-known advocate for fair use of copyright in the creative industries.
Lack of transparency impacts society, investment and jobs, and can leadto theft and fakes.
Talal Shamoon is Berkeley-based CEO of Intertrust, the leading digital rights management business. He is an inventor with more than a dozen patents and holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering.
Brad Watts is Senior Vice President of the Global Innovation Policy Center in Washington, part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was consul on IP matters to Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman on Intellectual Property Tillis and other members of Congress.
Jonathan Taplin is a successful film producer (Scorsese, Kidman), author and Director Emeritus of the USC Innovation Lab. Earlier in his career he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band.
The featured speakers will be Andrei Iancu, Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 2018-2021 and Chairman of the Council for Innovation Promotion.
For the full agenda and speakers, or to register for in person, visit IPAwarenessSummit.com. The Summit begins at 9:00 AM PT.
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