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On Friday, October 24, 2025, in collaboration with the Columbia-Sorbonne Alliance, the Kernochan Center's annual symposium examined the problems created by AI-generated deepfakes and analyzed domestic and international IP laws in search of potential solutions.  Scholars and industry leaders from the United States, the European Union, and the Commonwealth considered the adequacy of current IP frameworks to address deepfakes, the role of transparency obligations, and potential enforcement and liability mechanisms.

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On March 24, Prof. Peter Menell of UC Berkeley Law School delivered the 37th Annual Horace S. Manges Lecture, "On the Devolution of Copyright Scholarship," at 6:15 PM at Columbia Law School.

Peter Menell is the Koret Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, co-founder and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, and co-founder and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute. He earned his S.B. at MIT, Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School before clerking for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 1990. Professor Menell’s research and teaching span intellectual property across the technology and entertainment fields, as well as environmental law and policy, property law, law and economics, and judiciary reform. He has authored more than 100 articles and 15 books, including leading casebooks, intellectual property treatises, and research handbooks. Since 1998, Professor Menell has organized more than 60 intellectual property education programs in conjunction with the Federal Judicial Center, including an annual four-day program on “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age.”