29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: The Shifting Line, Panel 4

Program occurred April 16, 2026 At the Berkeley Technology Law Journal’s 29th Annual Symposium, Professors R. Anthony Reese, Marketa Trimble, Guy Rub, and Shyamkrishna Balganesh examined the federalization of unpublished works under the 1976 Copyright Act, the residual terrain of state copyright statutes, the contract-preemption frontier under Section 301, and the misappropriation doctrine’s corrupted legislative history—concluding that the House Report’s endorsement of hot news misappropriation described a statutory provision that was never enacted, and that courts have been building doctrine on that error for decades, with direct and unresolved consequences for data scraping, AI training, and the boundary between state and federal intellectual property protection. 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/