On March 15, 2025, Daniel Schacht, IP Co-Chair and Music and Entertainment Chair, was a keynote speaker at the Berkeley Media & Entertainment Conference 2025 – PLAY: Adapting to Disruption in the Digital Era. The article highlights Daniel as an entertainment law leader who provided a valuable added benefit to the conference.
UC Berkeley Law partnered with the university's Haas School of Business for PLAY, a student-led conference connecting people seeking greater involvement with media, entertainment, and technology through exposure to leading industry thought leaders. The daylong event featured C-suite executives, industry leaders, and other experts in media, entertainment, technology, sports, gaming, music, film, and television. The conference's theme, Adapting to Disruption in the Digital Era, explored the changing themes, players, talent, and ideas across entertainment, social media, creator economy, gaming, music, AI, and other areas.
3L Cassidi Mignuolo, was part of the PLAY Conference's planning committee and moderated Daniel's keynote discussion. The collaboration between UC Berkeley Law and Haas School of Business provided students to hear from key players in both the business and legal world.
Excerpted from the article:
"What was your [Cassidi] approach in moderating the intermediate keynote with Daniel Schacht '08, and what were your main takeaways from his remarks?
My goal was to cater to potential questions both law and business students would have for an accomplished lawyer in the media and entertainment space. Daniel had previously given talks on challenges brought by AI as well as the relationship between licensing and free content based social media, so I wanted to center the conversation on those topics. He was also able to give a solid backdrop of copyright law, including how music and voice likeness rights are affected by AI, that I think was extremely useful for non-law students in understanding potential legal issues their clients could be exposed to in this field."
Read the full article, PLAY Time: 3L Cassidi Mignuolo Helps Fuel Campus Partnership for Conference on Disruption in the Digital Era.