Symposium 2025: Deepfakes: In Search of Global Solutions

Friday, October 24, 9:00AM

William and June Warren Hall

1125 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027

In collaboration with the Columbia-Sorbonne Alliance, the Kernochan Center's annual symposium will examine the problems created by AI-generated deepfakes and analyze domestic and international IP laws in search of potential solutions.  Scholars and industry leaders from the United States, the European Union, and the Commonwealth will consider the adequacy of current IP frameworks to address deepfakes, the role of transparency obligations, and potential enforcement and liability mechanisms.

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I. The Existence (or Not) of Rights Against Unauthorized Deepfakes

A. Demonstration of AI Image-Generation and Musical Performance Deepfakes 

Demonstration: Makena Binker Cosen, Kirkland & Ellis 
Comment: Jane Ginsburg, Columbia Law School

B. Scope of Individual Rights: A Comparative Analysis

UNITED STATES

EUROPEAN UNION

COMMONWEALTH

C. Public Rights: Transparency Obligations

Célia Zolynski, University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne
Comment: Olivier Sylvain, Fordham Law School; Columbia Knight Institute

 

 

II. Enforcement

A. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

Edouard Treppoz, University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne 
Comment : Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent Law School 

B. AI Developers’ and Platforms’ Derivative Liability

Shyam Balganesh, Columbia Law School 
Comment: Célia Zolynski and Edouard Treppoz 

C. Civil Enforcement

David Louk, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco 
Comment: Célia Zolynski and Edouard Treppoz

Graeme Austin '98 (LL.M.) '01 (J.S.D.)

Chair in Private Law, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)

Shyam Balganesh

Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Valérie-Laure Benabou

University Professor, University of Paris Saclay

Makena Binker Cosen '25 (J.D.)

Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Graeme Dinwoodie '89 (J.S.D.)

Co-Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law, University Distinguished Professor, Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Chicago Kent College of Law

Jane Ginsburg

Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School

David Louk

Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco

Jennifer Rothman

Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Ben Sheffner

SVP & Associate General Counsel, Law and Policy, Motion Pictures Association

Olivier Sylvain '10 (Ph.D.)

Professor, Fordham School of Law

Edouard Treppoz

University Professor, Panthéon Sorbonne Université Paris I

Célia Zolynski

University Professor, Panthéon Sorbonne Université Paris I

To be announced -- please check back later.