Congratulations to UCI IPAT Clinic students and alumni for the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award they earned for obtaining exemptions to the copyright laws that affect filmmakers and authors nationwide, preserving their rights to make fair use! On Tuesday, IPAT students Aaron Benmark, Sasha Danielyan, and Lauren Wong joined Professor Jack Lerner and co-counsel from Donaldson Callif at a reception in San Francisco to accept the award.
IPAT Clinic to be Honored with California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award
Great news! We have just learned that next month the Clinic will be honored with a California Lawyer of the Year Award by California Lawyer magazine for our work achieving a DMCA exemption on behalf of filmmakers and authors that helps preserve their rights to fair use and freedom of expression. We are hugely honored, and humbled to share this award with our brilliant co-counsel Donaldson & Callif, LLP and the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic at Colorado Law.
IPAT Students Explain Importance of Preserving Fair Use Rights in the Digital Age
Throughout the past year, we were privileged to represent Authors Alliance in seeking a DMCA exemption that preserves authors’ rights in the digital age. In this guest post on the Authors Alliance website, IPAT students Sasha Danielyan and Lauren Wong explain why the new rule is important and how we obtained it.
IPAT Clinic Featured in the OC Weekly
UCI-IPAT’s work fighting for the rights of artists and filmmakers has been featured in the OC Weekly. Aaron Benmark and Lauren Wong are quoted, but credit also goes to UCI School of Law students Sasha Danielyan, Matt Germer, Mike Lee, Ranika Morales, Alex Podobas, Kyle Reynolds, Rahul Sajnani, Alex Selman, our brillant colleagues at Donaldson & Callif and the Colorado Samuelson-Glushko Tech Law & Policy Clinic, and our wonderful clients including Kartemquin Films, International Documentary Association, Authors Alliance, American Association of University Professors, and many others.
New Media Rights on DMCA Rulemaking: “Significant Victories, but a Broken Process”
Commentary on the DMCA Rulemaking process by New Media Rights:
All of this effort is required despite Copyright owners offering specious or no evidence about any harm that’s being protected by not providing exemptions. Yes, you read correctly. Advocates are spending thousands of hours asking the Copyright Office to please make exemptions for a universe of uses that are, but for the DMCA Anti-circumvention provisions, in no way illegal! As one commentator put it, the narrow exemptions are “like a manicured garden in the middle a Superfund site.”
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