DESCRIPTION
29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act
Panel 5: Copyrightable Subject Matter and the Special Problem of Software
April 17, 2026
Event Information | Agenda | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info
At the BTLJ Spring Symposium’s panel on software, copyright, and generative AI, scholars and practitioners traced how AI-generated code — likely uncopyrightable under current Copyright Office guidance — threatens to collapse the legal infrastructure underpinning open source software licenses, and how empirical evidence of large language model memorization is forcing courts to reconsider whether a model’s weights may themselves constitute a copy fixed in a tangible medium of expression.
Instructor(s)
Clark Asay, BYU Law
A. Feder Cooper, Yale University
Jule Sigall, former Microsoft
Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley Law
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