🎙️ Artist Rights Roundtable on AI and Copyright: Espresso with People and the Machines
📍 Butler Board Room, Bender Enviornment, American College, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington D.C. 20016 | 🗓️ September 18, 2025 | 🕗 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 midday
Hosted by the Artist Rights Institute & American College’s Kogod Faculty of Enterprise, Leisure Enterprise Program
🔹 Overview:
Be part of the Artist Rights Institute (ARI) and Kogod’s Leisure Enterprise Program for a well timed morning roundtable on AI and copyright from the artist’s perspective. We’ll discover how rising synthetic intelligence applied sciences problem authorship, licensing, and the artistic financial system — and what courts, lawmakers, and creators are doing in response.
☕ Espresso served beginning at 8:00 a.m.
🧠 Program begins at 8:50 a.m.
🕛 Concludes by 12:00 midday — you’ll be free to have lunch together with your clone.
🗂️ Program:
8:00–8:50 a.m. – Registration and Espresso
8:50–9:00 a.m. – Introductory Remarks by Dean David Marchick and ARI Director Chris Fort
9:00–10:00 a.m. – Subject 1: AI Provenance Is the Cornerstone of Official AI Licensing:
Audio system:
Dr. Moiya McTier, Human Artistry Marketing campaign
Ryan Lehnning, Assistant Normal Counsel, Worldwide at SoundExchange
The Chatbot
Moderator Chris Fort, Artist Rights Institute
10:10–10:30 a.m. – Briefing: Present AI Litigation, Kevin Madigan, Senior Vice President, Coverage and Authorities Affairs, Copyright Alliance
10:30–11:30 a.m. – Subject 2: Ask the AI: Can Integrity and Innovation Survive With out Artist Consent?
Audio system:
Erin McAnally, Govt Director, Songwriters of North America
Dr. Richard James Burgess, CEO A2IM
Dr. David C. Lowery, Terry Faculty of Enterprise, College of Georgia.
Moderator: Linda Bloss Baum, Director Enterprise and Leisure Program, Kogod Faculty of Enterprise
11:40–12:00 p.m. – Briefing: US and Worldwide AI Laws
🎟️ Admission:
Free and open to the general public. Registration required at Eventbrite. Seating is proscribed.
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