Six Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman Attorneys are Attending the 2026 Copyright + Technology Conference
Six Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman (CLL) attorneys, including Dasha Chestukhin, Paige Geier, John Miranda, Joel Karni Schmidt, Jaime Berman, and Emily Stein are attending the Copyright Society’s 17th Copyright + Technology Conference, which is taking place at New York University’s Vanderbilt Hall on September 17, 2026. CLL Senior Counsel Thomas Kjellberg will be performing together with the rest of the Copyright Society’s house band, Crude Humble & Obvious, at the Welcome and Networking Reception at Connolly’s Pub Times Square, located at 121, West 45th Street, New York, NY, 3rd Floor, on September 16 from 6:30 – 10:30 pm.
The Copyright + Tech Conference is co-presented with GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies in collaboration with NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. The Conference will cover topics relating to artificial intelligence and copyright, the future of takedown notices after the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Cox v. Sony Music, rights administration processes for AI content, and technologies for enhancing the value of music catalogs, among other topics.
CLL and its attorneys have been active members of the Copyright Society for many years. Thomas Kjellberg, Joelle Milov, and Dasha Chestukhin together with Robert Clarida of Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLC regularly give a yearly fast-paced, action-packed review of the year's most important copyright developments titled “Recent Developments in Copyright” at the Copyright Society’s Annual Meeting. CLL Co-Founder Alan Latman (who was an outstanding lawyer, renowned professor of law at NYU law school, and distinguished scholar) was the longtime Executive Director of the Copyright Society, and several of CLL’s present and past attorneys were Presidents of the Copyright Society, including Richard Dannay, Morton David Goldberg, David Goldberg, and Robert J. Bernstein. Thomas Kjellberg is a past Trustee of the Society and for many years has been the chief author of the Annual Review of Copyright Decisions published each year in the Journal of the Copyright Society. Richard Dannay is a former Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecturer, which is the oldest and most prestigious copyright-law lecture sponsored by the Copyright Society. He is also the only Copyright Society member who has attended every single annual meeting since the Society’s first meeting in 1977, which took place at the Concord Resort Hotel in the Borscht Belt of the Catskills.
CLL is a Diamond Sponsor of the Conference. Jaime Berman and Emily Stein are attending the Conference virtually. The other CLL attorneys are attending the Conference in person.
