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A conference presented by the IBA Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee, the IBA Communications Law Committee, the IBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee, the IBA Media Law Committee, the IBA Space Law Committee and the IBA Technology Law Committee.
The conference will cover AI's effect on authorship and ownership, cross-border data and regulatory governance, and the tension between fast-moving technology and lagging regulation - recur across technology, IP, media, art, and space law programming alike. A track on satellite and space-based data transmission's intersection with communications and IP law could also bridge the space and communications tracks, particularly given the FCC's active satellite rulemaking.
Topics will include:
- The AI-native legal function AI and crypto are moving faster than the rules, and technology counsel are moving from compliance into strategy. The session covers AI governance, data stewardship, liability where the law has gaps, and what the EU's MiCA regulation signals for digital assets.
- Should IP law treat AI agents as more human? AI agents now create, invent and decide, and IP law's core assumptions are under strain. Panelists ask who owns AI-assisted works, whether licensing will overtake registration, how deals and patent courts are adapting, and whether agents deserve more "human" treatment.
- Confusing to whom? Trademarks and the AI shopper when AI agents shop for us, who is the "consumer"? This session asks whether trademark confusion should be judged by the human user or by the algorithm.
- Signal shift: The FCC overhaul the FCC is rewriting its spectrum and satellite rules, with effects across telecom and media. The session also covers First Amendment fights over newsgathering, consumer protection claims used to get around defamation law, and satellite policy beyond US borders.
- Content at speed: advising creators in the AI era AI is making content faster and cheaper, and legal advice has to keep up. Topics include AI outputs, training data, labor and global AI rules, plus content moderation, celebrity defamation, gaming, quick-turn deals and streaming.
- What is copy, right? Visual art, AI, and the law in the 21st century from Rogers v. Koons to the NFT boom and bust, art law is redefining what counts as copying and what it means to own a work. The session covers fair use, the gap between owning a token and owning the copyright, digital provenance and unregulated authentication. It also takes on resale and moral rights, wartime restitution and AI as an authentication tool.
- The final frontier, regulated orbit is getting crowded and commercial, and space law is turning urgent. The session covers debris, treaty enforcement, cross-border jurisdiction, insurance, emerging space nations and Washington's growing focus on the sector, from the FCC's rule overhaul to the army's new space branch.
Speaker opportunities
If you would like to be considered as a potential speaker at this specialist conference then please contact the relevant Chair/Co-Chairs in the IBA Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee or the Chair/Co-Chairs in the IBA Communications Law Committee or Chair/Co-Chairs in the IBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee or Chair/Co-Chairs in the IBA Media Law Committee or Chair/Co-Chairs in the IBA Space Law Committee or the Chair/Co-Chairs in the IBA Technology Law Committee with your request; please send your bio together with information on your qualification and expertise on the topic.