The McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law and the University of San Francisco School of Law Intellectual Property Law Bulletin Present:
Fair Use in the Sky With Diamonds
Examining the Derivative Works Right in the Face of Fair Use

Featuring Steve Vander Ark, creator of the Harry Potter Lexicon, and panelists involved in the Harry Potter Lexicon Case.

Saturday, November 1st, 2008 in Fromm Hall at the University of San Francisco.
The McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law and the Intellectual Property Law Bulletin of the University of San Francisco School of Law are pleased to present a full-day symposium on the concept of “transformativeness”in U.S.and international copyright law. Although copyright owners in the United States and abroad are granted broad rights to control and exploit their copyrighted work in a host of “derivative” forms, those rights may be subject to countervailing claims by accused users that their use is transformative and thus immune from liability.This claim takes many forms and has been expressed in a variety of factual settings.The conference explores the relationship between the derivative works right, fair use and transformation in U.S.and foreign copyright law, and features a group of distinguished copyright practitioners and academics.