2026 Entertainment & Media Law Conference
The MLRC’s 23rd annual Entertainment & Media Law Conference, produced in partnership with the Biederman Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Institute, will take place on the afternoon of Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Los Angeles on the campus of Southwestern Law School.
Our 2026 conference is expected to feature sessions on the following:
Advising Creators in the Artificial Intelligence Age
So, your client wants to use AI in an upcoming production. Maybe it’s for special effects, maybe it’s saving on background actors, maybe it’s resurrecting the dead. What questions should you ask and what issues should you raise? We’ll offer a practical guide to advising on these issues, including distributor and labor issues, copyrightability of AI outputs, client content used for AI training, undisclosed uses of AI, and more.
Intellectual Property Review
We’re still weathering the fallout from Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products on trademark and right of publicity cases (is Rogers still good law?), and now the Court’s hearing of Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment could upend how media companies police copyright infringement online. And that’s before we even look at the artificial intelligence cases…
Hollywood Under Threat
All sectors of the media are under pressure in the second Trump administration, and entertainment is no exception. What forms is that pressure taking, and how are companies handling it? How is media consolidation affecting the ability to resist a government demand? Are markets for potentially controversial content drying up?
Breakout Sessions
We’re also bringing breakout sessions back to the Entertainment conference, with facilitators leading discussions on your choice of: Celebrity Defamation; Video Game Law; and Deals for Cheap, Fast, and Lucrative Online Content.
(Session titles and descriptions subject to change.)
The MLRC would like to thank Mutual Insurance, which is sponsoring our coffee breaks at the conference, as well as our other conference sponsors: Ballard Spahr | Davis Wright Tremaine | Fox Rothschild | Jassy Vick Carolan | Jenner & Block | Katten Muchin Rosenman | Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp | Motion Picture Association | QBE Insurance.
If you are interested in sponsoring this conference, please contact Jeff Hermes at jhermes@medialaw.org.