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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: (Panel 5) Copyrightable Subject Matter, Panel 5

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BCLT

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Copyright Law

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act
Panel 5: Copyrightable Subject Matter and the Special Problem of Software
April 17, 2026

1.50 General CLE Offered

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At the BTLJ Spring Symposium’s panel on software, copyright, and generative AI, scholars and practitioners traced how AI-generated code — likely uncopyrightable under current Copyright Office guidance — threatens to collapse the legal infrastructure underpinning open source software licenses, and how empirical evidence of large language model memorization is forcing courts to reconsider whether a model’s weights may themselves constitute a copy fixed in a tangible medium of expression.

Instructor(s)
Clark Asay, BYU Law
A. Feder Cooper, Yale University
Jule Sigall, former Microsoft
Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley Law

INFO

Avail. Until: 11/30/2027
Course Time: 1:00 PM PT
Duration: 90 min.
Program Code: BCLT0079.5