The UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, in partnership with UCLA DataX, invites you to our Fall kick-off event – the Democracy & Technology Salon.
Join us as we chart the tangled web of tech and power, and identify cleavage points for law and policy. A special evening event to learn about our work and meet our UCLA faculty, centering on a guest panel with invited guests from across California, moderated by ITLP’s new Executive Director and Tech Policy Lead at UCLA DataX, Professor Julia Powles.
Special guests:
- Lisa B. Kim, Senior Privacy Counsel and Advisor, California Privacy Protection Agency
- Dr. Jennifer King, Privacy and Data Policy Fellow, Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- Brian Merchant, Writer, Reporter, and Author, The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017); Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023)
Biographies:
Lisa B. Kim is the Senior Privacy Counsel and Advisor at the California Privacy Protection Agency. As the Agency’s top privacy protection legal expert, she provides analyses and legal and policy recommendations to the Agency’s Board and Executive Director on privacy and data security issues across all divisions. Lisa led the Agency’s team in drafting new regulations that operationalize the California Privacy Rights Act’s amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including regulations that clarify the law’s data minimization principles, prohibition on dark patterns, and requirements for an opt-out preference signal. Prior to joining the Agency, she was a Deputy Attorney General at the California Attorney General’s Office, where she enforced state and federal privacy laws and drafted the regulations first implementing the CCPA. In 2023, Lisa received the inaugural “Privacy Lawyer of the Year” award by the Privacy Law Section of the California Lawyer’s Association. Lisa received her J.D. at UC Berkeley’s School of Law and her B.A. magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Jennifer King is the Privacy and Data Policy Fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. An information scientist by training, Dr. King is a recognized expert and scholar in information privacy. Sitting at the intersection of human-computer interaction, law, and the social sciences, her research examines the public’s understanding and expectations of online privacy as well as the policy implications of emerging technologies. Most recently, her research explored alternatives to notice and consent (with the World Economic Forum), the impact of California’s new privacy laws, and dark patterns. Her past work includes projects focusing on social media, genetic privacy, mobile application platforms, the Internet of Things (IoT), and digital surveillance. Her scholarship has been recognized for its impact on policymaking by the Future of Privacy Forum, and she has been an invited speaker before the Federal Trade Commission at several Commission workshops. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. in Information Management and Systems from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, and her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to entering academia she worked in security and in product management for several Internet companies, most notably Yahoo!.
Brian Merchant is a writer, reporter, and author based in Los Angeles. He is also a reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute. His work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, Harper’s, the Guardian, and beyond. Previously, he was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times and the senior editor at Motherboard (RIP). Brian is the author of The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017, Little, Brown) and Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023, Little, Brown). He co-founded VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform that published a best-of anthology, Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, with MCD Books, in 2022.
Professor Julia Powles is the Executive Director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy at the UCLA School of Law and UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and Tech Policy Lead for the University-wide initiative, UCLA DataX. Professor Powles researches and teaches in the areas of privacy, intellectual property, internet governance, and the law and politics of data, automation, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining UCLA, Professor Powles was the founding Director of the UWA Tech & Policy Lab and Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Western Australia. She previously held academic appointments at Cornell Tech, New York University, and the University of Cambridge, and worked at The Guardian, World Intellectual Property Organization, and MinterEllison. Professor Powles earned a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford. She also holds Bachelor’s degrees in Science and Law, with First Class Honors, from the Australian National University and University of Western Australia.
Sarah Elkeaikati is the Program Coordinator of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy at the UCLA School of Law and UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, where she supports high-impact initiatives at the inter
Save the date! This year's Digital Media & Video Games Conference will be held on November 7, 2025.
Past Conferences
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GC Roundtable - (1.25h General CLE)
The best GCs are those who are conversant on cutting edge legal and business issues. The panelists on the GC Roundtable will discuss the cutting edge legal and business issues that they or their respective GCs believe must be considered by digital media and video game companies.
Moderator:
Rusty Weiss, Partner, Sidley Austin LLPPanelists:
Matthew Breitman, Senior Vice President - General Counsel Americas and Corporate Secretary, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Eric Grouse, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Adam Sullivan, General Counsel, Square Enix
Ethics of Responsible Gaming - (1h Ethics CLE)
Ethics of Responsible Gaming - The video game industry is uniquely positioned at the intersection of rapidly evolving technology and regulations that are trying to keep up, resulting in gray areas through which lawyers have to guide their clients. This panel interrogates the role of attorneys, their professional obligations, and their ethical duties as they navigate this ambiguity.
Moderator:
Maria Abesa, Senior Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, Square EnixPanelists:
Andrew Bardi, Associate General Counsel, Reality Labs, Meta
Stacy Feuer, Senior Vice President, ESRB Privacy Certified
Felix Hilgert, Partner, Osborne Clarke
Zachary Lewis, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz
Lunch Presentation – Digital Media and Video Games: The Competition Hollywood Has for Consumer Attention - (0.5h General CLE)
The entertainment industry may have enough to worry about in 2024 as its core film and TV businesses feel the pressure of adapting to a streaming-driven marketplace. But the truth is the challenges Hollywood face now holding onto its audiences extends far beyond the production of premium long-form video. Intended as a companion of sorts to the "After the Streaming Wars" presentation given in June at UCLA's 48th Annual Entertainment Symposium this presentation takes a look at the competitive landscape for consumer attention, including video games, the creator economy, social video, immersive entertainment, and of course, AI. Enough talk about binge watching and themed popcorn buckets; let's talk about Roblox, Apple Vision Pro, the Sphere in Las Vegas and other innovations.
Presenter:
Andrew Wallenstein, Chief Media Analyst and President, Variety Intelligence Platform (VIP+)
Annual Litigation Update: Part 1 - (1h General CLE)
The first part of our annual litigation update will examine some of the top cases and disputes from the prior year or so affecting the digital media and video game space – including, among others, those involving rights of publicity, rights of privacy, first amendment, trademarks and copyright.
Moderator:
Doug Lichtman, Professor, UCLA School of LawPanelists:
William Sloan Coats, Sole Practitioner, Law Office of William Sloan Coats
Marc Mayer, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Annual Litigation Update: Part 2 - (0.5h General CLE)
The second part of our annual litigation update will summarize the cases involving Epic Games v. Apple and v. Google, including a recently filed new complaint, and include discussion of what is presently allowed in the app stores in terms of in-app purchases and side payments.
Presenter:
Jennifer Dixton, Assistant Chief, Special Counsel for Policy & Intellectual Property, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Lecturer in Law, UCLA School of Law
Show Me the Money! The Impact of NIL and Private Equity on Sports, Video Games & Digital Media - (1h General CLE)
Reference to “NIL” is in the news on a near daily basis. This panel will discuss why NIL seems to be everywhere, NIL’s emergence and intersection with rights of publicity, and how the associated money is impacting digital media, video games & sports, including the sports-media landscape. This includes a look at how such ties in with the recent surge in popularity of women’s sports, the return of EA Sports’s NCAA Football video game, and the potential for more money – an increase in private equity investment in sports and what that means.
Moderator:
Seth J. Steinberg, Principal, Digital Arts LawPanelists:
Andrew Eiger, Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs, Overtime
Sara Gotfredson, Founder, Trailblazing Sports Group (formerly VP, ESPN/Disney)
Gary Rosenfeld, Head of Business Development, Big Fish Games
Mark Tratos, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Cross-Media IP Exploitation in Entertainment and Gaming - (1h General CLE)
This panel will discuss how entertainment and video game companies are expanding and licensing their IP to create cross-media entertainment products that span games, film, TV, books, podcasts, live events, merchandising and digital media to reach new fans and engage audiences. Successful franchise expansion is dependent on the rights and licensing of IP, which our panelists will address from a legal and business perspective across different types of entertainment and media. Our discussion will also include key trends and legal challenges in cross-media linear adaptations using video game IP as source material, as well as the use of TV/film storytelling IP in games and other media.
Moderator:
Cooper Jackson, Senior Vice President, Business Affairs & Development, Electronic ArtsPanelists:
Pam Reynolds, Director & Associate General Counsel of Legal Affairs, Amazon MGM Studios
Ned Sherman, Chief Business Affairs & Legal Officer, Skybound Entertainment
Jenifer Wallis, Chair of Entertainment Practice, Munck Wilson, Mandala, LLP
Rusty Weiss, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
CA MCLE Credits: UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. By attending all sessions, you may earn up to 6.25 credits (5.25 hours of general credit and 1 hour of legal ethics credit). CLE Readings
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