The Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law at UCLA Law was excited to host distinguished alumnus Andrei Iancu ’96, Director of the U.S.

Distinguished UCLA School of Law alumnus Andrei Iancu ’96 returned on Feb. 22 to offer an inside look from the highest reaches of the federal government into the most pressing issues in patent law.

A longtime patent-law lecturer at UCLA Law and former managing partner of Irell & Manella, Iancu was confirmed as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in early 2018. As the head of the USPTO, he oversees one of the primary federal agencies that govern intellectual property rights.

U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler visited UCLA School of Law to provide an inside look at his work as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the main congressional body that handles matters key to the entertainment industry and, most recently, investigations into Russian election meddling and President Trump’s possible obstruction of justice.

Xiyin Tang, whose innovative scholarship examines the role that technological evolution plays in the law of intellectual property, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Tang comes from Yale University, where she was a lecturer in computer science and a visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.

Andrew Selbst, whose cutting-edge research focuses on areas where technology intersects with civil rights and civil liberties, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Selbst comes from Data & Society Research Institute, where he was a postdoctoral scholar.

Who owns the copyright in this movie? That song? A book upon which a movie is based? In today’s entertainment marketplace, content is king, and the answers to these questions may have million-dollar implications. On February 26, two lawyers from O’Melveny & Myers’ Century City office gave students an introduction on how to trace copyright ownership across transactions, or what those in the entertainment industry refer to as the “chain of title.”

The 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium has launched a four-week series of webinars that keep the signature tradition going during the coronavirus pandemic.