Hollywood, Highways, and Generative AI Outputs: What’s Next in AI Law

Mark MacCarthy is on the faculty at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in technology policy in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program and courses on privacy and ethics of speech in the Philosophy Department. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown Law and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Public Policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, where he directed initiatives and advised member companies on technology policy, privacy, AI ethics, content moderation and competition policy in tech.

Jess Miers is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law. As a professor, lawyer, and technologist, Jess primarily focuses on the intersection of law and the Internet. She is widely considered an expert on U.S. intermediary liability law and has written, spoken, and taught extensively about topics such as speech and Section 230, content moderation, intellectual property, and cyber crime.

Before law school, Jess received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science from George Mason University. She spent four years as a Software Engineer for a defense contractor in Northern Virginia. Throughout law school, Jess interned at Twitter, TechFreedom, The UCLA Technology Law and Policy Institute, and Google Trust & Safety. She founded the SCU Internet Law Student Organization, with the goal of encouraging students to explore and pursue careers in Internet law and policy.

For over 40 years, Jonathan has worked at the intersection of law, public policy, and technology in the tech, media, and telecom fields, both in private practice and in positions at the Federal Communications Commission and The White House.  He advises industry entities in advancing business, legal, and regulatory strategies and in negotiating and closing business transactions (including M&A).  He counsels a diverse set of clients that includes Fortune 50 companies, innovative start-ups, investment firms, and non-profit foundations.

Jonathan’s career began as a radio news reporter and producer in New York City, where he covered a range of local, national, and international topics.  His early-career pivot to law school drew him to media and telecom law, and most recently to the legal issues involving content regulation, Section 230, and artificial intelligence.  During his 5+ year stint at the FCC, Jonathan was Special Assistant to the Chairman and worked in senior bureau staff positions developing FCC policy for new technology regulation, spectrum auctions, the digital television transition, and wireless telecom competition.

Jonathan currently co-chairs the Emerging Issues in Technology committee of the FCBA-The Tech Bar® and he speaks in educational settings and at industry gatherings frequently.  He holds degrees from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law Center and has been named a “Best Lawyer®” and a Washington D.C. SuperLawyer.

Jonathan has been a WBK partner for 27 years and served as the firm’s Finance Partner from 2017 to 2025.  He also devotes time to pro bono legal matters, primarily in the areas of criminal justice and responsible tech, and has been named multiple times to the D.C. Bar’s Pro Bono Honor Roll.  Jonathan currently splits his time between D.C. and Los Angeles.

Eugene Volokh taught First Amendment law, a First Amendment amicus brief clinic, copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.

Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (6th ed. 2016), and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2013), as well as over 90 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading legal blog. His law review articles have been cited by opinions in eight Supreme Court cases and several hundred court opinions in total, as well as several thousand scholarly articles.

Volokh worked for 12 years as a computer programmer. He graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in math-computer science at age 15, and has written many articles on computer software. Volokh was born in the USSR; his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was seven years old.