Ideas and Expression — What Really Is Free and What Isn’t? Observations from Entertainment Litigation with Elaine Kim — Co-Sponsored by CILS and KHIPLA

Elaine K. Kim is a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK), a law firm with deep roots in Los Angeles’s entertainment industry since 1908. Elaine currently co-chairs MSK’s Litigation department, and previously co-chaired the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group. She specializes in intellectual property and entertainment matters, and counsels and represents studios, production companies, game developers, and other content creators. She has defended studios, producers, and writers against copyright infringement and idea submission claims, involving popular films and television shows — sometimes, claims asserted by multiple plaintiffs over the same property. She has also prosecuted copyright claims against infringers, and counsels clients on protecting their works. Elaine also serves as an officer and trustee of the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and as an executive committee member of the USC Gould School of Law Intellectual Property Institute.