Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026

Noon – 12:50 PM Eastern Time Zone

Session II: A Virtual Event

AI & the Law: A "Deep Dive" - Fair Use, Copyright and the Doctrine of Innovation

The guilds settled. The lawsuits continue. And the fundamental question at the heart of the AI and entertainment industry debate remains stubbornly unresolved — does innovation have the right to override the protections that creative professionals have spent a century building? The core issues go far beyond compensation. Data training, ownership, creative control, deepfake technology, political disinformation, revenge porn and the wholesale misuse of intellectual property are all converging simultaneously on a legal framework that was never designed to handle any of them. At the same time the creative opportunities — educational access, freedom of expression, reduced barriers to entry — are real and significant. In this deep dive we ask whether existing copyright law, right of publicity and current regulations are anywhere near sufficient for what artificial intelligence is already doing. Click Here for Ian Ballon's Documents and Downloads for this session

Speakers:

Ian C. Ballon, Co-Chair, Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, Greenberg, Traurig LLP, Moderator

Lisa Oratz, Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie

Robert Rosenberg, Partner, IP, Entertainment/Media & Technology, Moses Singer

James Rubinowitz, Adjunct Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

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    Ian Ballon

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    Lisa Oratz

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Ian Ballon is an intellectual property and internet litigator who is the Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. He represents clients in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, security, software, database and Internet- and mobile-related disputes and in the defense of data privacy, cybersecurity breach, adtech and behavioral advertising, TCPA and other Internet-related class action suits. Please click here to view a list of some of his recent cases. Mr. Ballon, who splits his time between the firm's Silicon Valley, L.A., and D.C. offices, is the author of the five-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms 2d Edition (West 2008 & 2022 Cum. Supp., www.ianballon.net) and the earlier first edition, which has been cited in state and federal court opinions. In addition, he serves as the Executive Director of Stanford University Law School’s Center for the Digital Economy. He also chairs PLI's annual Advanced Defending Data Privacy, Cybersecurity Breach and TCPA Class Action Litigation conference. Mr. Ballon previously served as an advisor to ALI’s Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transactional Disputes (ALI Principles of the Law 2007) and was a member of the consultative group for the Data Privacy Principles of Law project (ALI Principles of the Law Data Privacy, 2020). Mr. Ballon was named the Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law in the 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, and 2013 editions of Best Lawyers in America and was recognized as the 2012 New Media Lawyer of the Year by the Century City Bar Association. In 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 he was recognized as one of the Top 1,000 trademark attorneys in the world for his litigation practice by World Trademark Review. In addition, in 2019 he was named one of the top 20 Cybersecurity lawyers in California and in 2018 one of the Top Cybersecurity/Artificial Intelligence lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. He received the “Trailblazer” Award, Intellectual Property, 2017 from The National Law Journal and he has been recognized as a “Groundbreaker” in The Recorder’s 2017 Litigation Departments of the Year Awards for winning a series of TCPA cases. In addition, he was the recipient of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Law section's Vanguard Award for significant contributions to the development of intellectual property law. He is listed in Legal 500 U.S., The Best Lawyers in America (in the areas of information technology and intellectual property) and Chambers and Partners USA Guide in the areas of privacy and data security and information technology. He has been recognized as one of the Top 75 intellectual property litigators in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal in every year that the list has been published (2009 through 2022). He was also listed in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report: 50 Game-Changing Attorneys” (2012), was recognized as one of the Top 100 lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal L.A., as one of the Top 100 lawyers in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal and has appeared on both the Northern California and Southern California Super Lawyers lists.


Robert Rosenberg is a partner in the IP, Entertainment/Media & Technology and AI & Data Law practice groups at Moses Singer, where he brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective to complex IP cases and transactions. Rob has a robust background spanning the creative, business and technical sides of media and has served as an expert witness in these areas. He is recognized as a legal and digital strategy leader who has played a pivotal role in driving growth and innovation. Rob’s core competencies include negotiating high-stakes agreements, developing and executing strategic initiatives, solving complex legal and business challenges, managing the complexities of AI, and collaborating effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. This includes first-hand experience in the operational and commercial impacts of legal decisions on day-to-day business practices ranging from sales, pricing, distribution and corporate governance strategy, to content and software application licensing and development. Rob also provides strategic advisory services to clients through Moses Singer’s consulting platform, MS Strategic Solutions, where he serves as the Managing Director. Rob is founder and author of The Technotainment Scorecard, a free weekly newsletter breaking down issues at the intersection of tech, media, law and policy (technotainmentscorecard.com). Prior to joining Moses Singer, Rob ran Telluride Legal Strategies, where he counseled clients on both legal and business strategies in the areas of content creation and distribution for television and film, sports and general entertainment application development, publishing, corporate governance and AI. Rob’s experience covers software development and licensing, intellectual property piracy and protection, large language model (LLM) licensing, AI-powered products, X-as-a-Service, API agreements, SLAs, and privacy law compliance. Before that, Rob spent over 22 years at Showtime Networks, where he held several senior leadership positions, including most recently, Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Rob oversaw all legal affairs, including its live and filmed programming and distribution transactions, intellectual property, litigation, contracts, compliance, privacy and regulatory matters. He supported the legal aspects of the company's digital media, sales, and marketing initiatives, and managed a team of lawyers and paralegals, helped develop the roadmap and execute the company's vision for over-the-top content (OTT) and new media platforms. Before pursuing law, Rob spent 8 years in advertising, including as an Account Supervisor at Ogilvy & Mather.


Lisa Oratz has more than 35 years of experience representing clients at the various intersections of technology, intellectual property (IP), and entertainment law. She currently serves as the co-lead of the firm’s Film & Television industry group. Her practice involves product counseling work for clients, with a focus on IP matters, content liability, and privacy and regulatory compliance. Lisa also routinely helps clients with drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts (including development agreements), collaboration and strategic partnership agreements, master services agreements, and license agreements. She devotes much of her practice to emerging technologies and is known for her innovative work on legal issues involving artificial intelligence (AI). This includes extensive work in the area of generative AI, including product counseling and developing IP protection and risk mitigation strategies. Lisa counsels clients regarding the clearance, protection, and licensing of copyrights, trademarks, right of publicity, and other IP rights, and assists clients with obtaining, maintaining, and enforcing copyright and trademark rights and registrations. She works with technology, digital media, AI, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), and traditional companies on a broad range of topics including privacy, name image and likeness, content liability, social media issues, site terms, and contracts. Lisa also represents artists, athletes, authors, and musicians as well as game developers, AR/VR platforms, sports teams, publishers, and individuals on a wide variety of entertainment, sports, and marketing-related matters. Lisa works with a wide variety of clients, ranging from small, cutting-edge startups to Fortune 500 companies and other industry leaders. Representative clients include Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Adobe Systems, Nintendo of America, Magic Leap, The Seattle Mariners, and The Seattle Storm. She is a frequent writer and speaker on IP, licensing, and contracting issues relating to AI and has presented on these topics before major technology companies and leading legal organizations such as the American Bar Association (ABA).