Copyforward: AI, IP, and the fight for Creative Control

​Flux Festival Day 1: Copyforward
An Invitation-Only Symposium on AI, Creativity, and the Law

​About the Event

​Copyforward is an invitation-only symposium bringing together legal experts, artists, filmmakers, scholars, and guild representatives to examine the implications of artificial intelligence in film and creative media. The conversation centers on questions of AI, intellectual property, and copyright as they affect artists, filmmakers, and the broader creative industries.

​The symposium builds on Mozilla Foundation's Hollywood's 8 Rules for AI, a blueprint developed with 91 creatives for redesigning AI deployment around creative leadership.

​Attendees are also invited to join Day 2 of Flux Festival, a curated program of talks, screenings, sensory exhibits, workshops, and performances showcasing bold innovations in moving image and sound on Saturday, April 25.

​Copyforward Participants Include

​Douglas Emhoff
USC Gould School of Law
Georgetown Law
SAG-AFTRA
IATSE
O'Melveny and Myers
In-house studio counsel
And more

​The Program

​10:00 am: Coffee & Welcome
10:45 am: Panel 1 — Where We Stand: Is IP Law Up to the Challenge of AI?
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Panel 2 — Beat the Clock: Hollywood v. AI
2:45 pm: Break
3:15 pm: Panel 3 — Hey, Has Anyone Actually Asked the Artists?
4:15 pm: Break
4:30 pm: Panel 4 — What Does Silicon Valley Have Up Its Sleeve?
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Reception

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​About Flux Festival

​Flux Festival is curated by Meg Grey Wells and Jonathan Wells, directors of Flux, an LA-based creative studio, along with Holly Willis, co-director of AIMS, a research studio at USC exploring AI and storytelling. Copyforward is co-curated with Jeffrey Schneider, Executive Director of the Center for Sports, Entertainment, Media and Technology Law at USC Gould School of Law. The 2026 festival is convened in partnership with Mozilla Foundation.

​The 2026 Flux Festival is presented in collaboration with Mozilla Foundation, alongside AIMS (AI for Media & Storytelling), a collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC, and the Center for Sports, Entertainment, Media & Technology Law (SEMT) at the USC Gould School of Law.