29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium:The Role of the Author, Panel 2

Program occurred April 16, 2026 At the Berkeley Technology Law Journal's 29th Annual Symposium, Professors Tyler Ochoa, David Nimmer, Robert Brauneis, and Peter DiCola examined the 1976 Copyright Act's author-centered reforms—covering formalities, duration, termination of transfer, fixation, joint authorship, and market structure—and concluded that twin oligopolies in copyright aggregation and technological distribution have structurally disabled the economic leverage those reforms were designed to provide, while judicial resistance and contractual end-runs have eroded the inalienable termination right that was the Act's most ambitious pro-author innovation. Need CLE Credit? Watch the program on B-CLE: https://bcle.law.berkeley.edu/program... ► Homepage: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research... ► View our CLE Catalog on our B-CLE Platform: https://bcle.law.berkeley.edu/