Thank you for attending!
Thursday, March 16, 2023
ASU California Center at the Herald Examiner Building
About the Symposium
Through the Copyright Symposium, The McCarthy Institute at ASU Law and the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy will bring together the foremost copyright scholars, practitioners, and industry leaders to engage with cutting-edge issues within copyright law.
In recognition of one of the most significant copyright cases to come before the United States Supreme Court in the new millennium, the inaugural theme for the Symposium is “Transform: A New Horizon for Copyright.” Content will focus on a variety of the most significant issues in copyright law today.
Programming

Keynote: David Nimmer

Introductory Remarks: J. Thomas McCarthy
J. Thomas McCarthy is a Professor Emeritus at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is the founding director of the McCarthy Institute of Intellectual Property and Technology Law. For over twenty years until 2022, he was of counsel with Morrison & Foerster LLP, based in its San Francisco office. He has practiced, written and taught in the field of trademarks and unfair competition for 60 years.
McCarthy is the author of the seven-volume treatise McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, published by Thomson Reuters both in print and online at Westlaw. This treatise is in its fifth edition and has been in print for 50 years. It has been cited as an authority in almost 8,000 judicial decisions, including sixteen U.S. Supreme Court cases. McCarthy is also a co-author with Professor Roger E. Schechter the two-volume treatise The Rights of Publicity and Privacy (Thomson Reuters) and the reference book McCarthy’s Desk Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property (co-authored by Roger E. Schechter and David J. Franklyn (Third edition 2004, BNA)).
Thank you for attending!
- March 16, 2023
- ASU California Center at the Herald Examiner Building
- 1111 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Thank you to our sponsors!







The McCarthy Institute
The McCarthy Institute at ASU Law sits at the intersection of intellectual property law, marketing, technology, and consumer behavior. A joint-program with Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, The McCarthy Institute conducts regular symposia, workshops, networking groups, and pursues original IP and branding research and scholarship.
The UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy
A partnership between UCLA School of Law and UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy examines the benefits and risks presented by technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, cybersecurity, and digital media and communications.
These and other rapidly evolving technologies raise questions germane to the outcome of ethical and public policy issues, and the applicability and utility of current laws and regulations that govern their use.