UCI IP, Arts & Tech Clinic

Intellectual Property, Arts, & Technology Clinic

Rap On Trial Legal Guide authors to present webinar to Florida attorneys

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On April 23, 2024, Professors Jack Lerner and Charis Kubrin will participate in Defending The Mic: The Decriminalization of Rap Music, a webinar about the use of rap lyrics in criminal trials. The webinar, hosted by the Diversity and Racial Justice Committee of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, will also feature experienced trial attorney J. Samantha Vacciana, Esq.; Kristin Shockley, Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University; and Professor Andrea Dennis, who co-authored Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America. The webinar has been approved by the Florida Bar for 2.5 CLE credits.

Go here to learn more!

IPAT Joins California Voter Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration

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Yesterday, we traveled to Sacramento, CA to celebrate IPAT Clinic client California Voter Foundation‘s 25th anniversary celebration. In addition to 25th anniversary awards, the event featured a retrospective video illustrating CVF’s huge impact on voting in California over 25 years. A great time was had by all! 

 

IPAT Certified Law Students Hannah Green and Prachi Mistry with CVF Executive Director Kim Alexander and IPAT Clinic Director Jack Lerner

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CVF board member Cathy Darling Allen with CVF president Kim Alexander

 

 

IPAT Celebrates Fair Use Week

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Here at the IPAT Clinic we are excited to celebrate Fair Use Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing organized by the Association of Research Libraries. Because we work to support freedom of expression in the digital age, we consider fair use an important component of our practice. In fact, we work on fair use nearly every day here in the Clinic. This week, for example, we talked with several filmmakers seeking legal help so that they can make fair use in their films. And on Saturday, IPAT students Oluwatobi Agbelemose and Kristina Martinez, together with Clinic Director Jack Lerner, will be presenting on Fair Use for Academics at the annual meeting of the California Conference of the American Association of University Professors. We’ll be talking about how academics can make fair use in their scholarship appropriately, responsibly, and safely. We’ll discuss cases like Sundeman v. The Seajay Society and important tools like the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication, and make sure folks know how to use exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that allow professors to extract content from encrypted media for teaching purposes.

Stay tuned: after the presentation, we’ll update this post with our slides!

UPDATE 3/2/19: Here are our slides!

 

IPAT Clinic-Supported Documentary Screens at LACMA

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Artist Yayoi Kusama drawing in Kusama - Infinity. © Tokyo Lee Productions, Inc. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

Artist Yayoi Kusama drawing in Kusama – Infinity. © Tokyo Lee Productions, Inc. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

On August 30, the documentary film Kusama – Infinity screened at LACMA in Los Angeles to a standing-room-only audience, followed by an engaging post-screening conversation with the director, Heather Lenz. The documentary film details the work and life of the artist and writer Yayoi Kusama and had its first premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

UCI Law IPAT Clinic students including Jianna Yun, Karen Shin, and Julia Gaffney, under the supervision of Clinical Professor Jack Lerner, performed legal analysis for the film content, allowing the filmmakers to determine how to make fair use of film material responsibly and safely. To read more about Kusama – Infinity and IPAT Clinic’s legal contributions, please visit the film’s website and UCI Law’s blog post on its premiere at Sundance Film Festival.

The film will additionally screen at South Coast Village in Santa Ana, Orange County, starting on September 14, 2018. We look forward to seeing you there!

IPAT Clinic Hosts Tech Policy Clinics Base Camp 2018

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Base Camp 2018On June 12 and 13, the UCI Law IPAT Clinic hosted nearly thirty technology and intellectual property clinicians from law schools across the country for two tremendous days of discussion, reflection, inspiration, and fellowship at #TechClinicCamp2018. From information-sharing rounds and strategy sessions to presentations of cutting-edge research, the days were full of thoughtful and engaging conversation about social justice in IP and tech, interdisciplinary and inter-clinic collaboration, and strategies to support student excellence, among many other topics. A warm thanks to all attendees for their dedication, commitment, and scholarship – and see you at the next Base Camp!