In the age of AI, one of Europe’s top copyright law experts will join in conversation with a US litigator at the forefront of online copyright protection and mass infringement, shaping the law, setting precedent, shutting down illegal services, and achieving settlements. Attendees can expect a stimulating conversation moderated by Jessica Sänger, Chair of IPA’s Copyright Committee. The discussion will feature two eminent speakers: 

  • Scott Zebrak is a founding partner at Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP (“O+Z”). Scott has more than 25 years of copyright litigation and counseling experience, with a particular focus on content protection issues that involve digital media, new technology, and disruptive business models. Scott represents some of the world’s most prominent companies in music, education, publishing, and other creative industries. His cases have been at the forefront of online copyright protection and mass infringement, shaping the law, setting precedent, shutting down illegal services, and achieving settlements or jury verdicts of $34 million, $105 million, and $1 billion, among others. His law firm, O+Z, is a litigation boutique with nearly 25 lawyers dedicated to representing clients in creative and innovative industries on IP protection issues relating to content and brands. O+Z’s offices are in Washington, DC and New York City, and its practice is nationwide and at times even international. 
  • SILKE von LEWINSKI, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich; Associate Professor, Zagreb University. Legal expert to the European Commission (eg, drafted proposal for EC Rental Rights Directive and steered it with Commission through legislative process, and was member of EC delegation at WIPO Diplomatic Conference 1996 on WCT, WPPT), and for Germany at WIPO Diplomatic Conferences on AV/Beijing Treaty and Marrakesh Treaty (2000; 2012, 2013: as Deputy Head of Delegation). Chief copyright expert to governments of CEECs and former Soviet countries under initial EC’s TA programs and later for UNDP, UN/ECE, etc. in Africa, Asia and Europe. Book publications, eg: “The WIPO Treaties on Copyright” (2nd edn 2015, with Reinbothe); “International Copyright Law and Policy” (2008), both with Chinese editions; “European Copyright Law” (2010, with MM Walter et al.; new edn. in preparation); “Copyright throughout the World” (annual updates). Frequent visiting professorships worldwide (eg, Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne; UT1 Toulouse; Univ. Melbourne; China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing; Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan). First Walter Minton Visiting Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, New York (1998); First Distinguished Visitor to the IP Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA, 2002); The Hosier Distinguished Visiting IP Scholar, DePaul University, Chicago, 2005; International IP expert in the “111-Projekt”, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan (2018-23). Membership, eg: Vice President of ALAI; President of ALAI Germany; Honorary Board Member of VG Wort.  

 

Join the IPA at the Frankfurt Book Fair to engage in this conversation about the future of copyright in an AI-driven world.