Event Summary

Copyright Alliance and WALA to Host World IP Day Panel on April 23

Each year on April 26, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) organizes a global World IP Day (WIPD) celebration to help foster a greater understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) rights. For WIPD 2024, the Copyright Alliance and 20 Community Partner organizations will host a panel via Zoom, titled Sustaining and Empowering the Creative Community Through Copyright. 

Our panel is in keeping with the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO)2024 theme, IP and the SDGs: Building Our Common Future with Innovation and Creativity. During the event, which will be held via Zoom on April 23 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT, panelists will discuss how creators can meet their goals today while helping to ensure that tomorrow’s creative community is sustained through job growth, a strong creative economy, and continued growth of the arts, all of which are perpetuated through copyright protections. 

Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid will introduce the event; U.S. Copyright Office Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education Miriam Lord will provide opening remarks; and Maribel Quezada Smith, Founder of BIPOC Podcast Creators and video/podcast producer, will moderate. Panelists include Eric Schwartz, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) and Founding Director and Vice Chair, National Film Preservation Foundation; Mary Rasenberger, CEO, Authors Guild; Taura Stinson, Academy Award nominated songwriter, composer, producer and author; and Bijou Mgbojikwe, Senior Policy Counsel, Entertainment Software Association (ESA). 

To register to attend, please click here. 

This event is co-hosted by the National Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Network, including Arts & Business Council Boston, Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, BIPOC Podcast Creators, Black Girl Film School, California Lawyers for the Arts, Carolina Lawyers for the Arts and Entertainment, Chicago Lawyers for the Creative, Arts Colorado Attorneys for the Arts, Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, Dade Legal Aid, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, National Association of Voice Actors, Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts, The Ella Project, VLA New York, and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts 

Event Details

• Date

  April 23, 2024

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• Time

  2:00pm - 3:00pm

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• Partner

  Copyright Alliance

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• Venue

  Online