September 29, 2025: IP Attorney and Award-winning author Timothy Trainer talks about the future of AI with George Washington University Intellectual Property Law Professor Mark Traphagen
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Ep5 of Tim's Travails: The adventure of travel law — Do you have a travel business? Learn how to master it with attorney Chunnie Writer
September 2025: Chunnie traveled to over 60 countries and built a legal practice that covers copyright, trademark, technology and even something called “adventure travel law.” How did she create such a unique niche?
Monday Morning Magic from Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co. — Artificial Intelligence and its impact on labor is the October feature of IP attorney and author Timothy Trainer’s podcast/video show, Tim’s Travails.
Tim shares: “Mark and I have long been colleagues as Intellectual Property attorneys, so it’s a privilege to pick his brain about how he’s seeing the evolution of AI’s impact on the creative/entertainment industries, including several recent developments:
- Anthropic’s decision to pay out $1.5 billion for downloading thousands of books in violation of copyright law
- The required human element to claim copyright to authored works
Don’t miss this episode! And be sure to check out Tim’s blog with insights into topics including Judges, Lawyers, and Commitment • The Department of War • The Flag • and more, all at TimothyTrainer.com!
This just in: Congratulations to Tim For winning another award from the Military Writers Society of America for his latest novel, The China Factor. Click here for details.
If you missed last month’s feature with Chunnie Wright on the adventure of travel law, check out our podcast interview above.
Stay tuned for ep7 featuring dystopian author Joe Relk: A former State Department Foreign Service Officer who served in Venezuela, Bolivia, Germany, Ecuador, Guatemala, Suriname, and Afghanistan, Joe will talk with Tim about the surreal, futuristic world he created in his novels, the Sins of the Saviors series, and how the horrifying world he imagined is coming true. Learn more about Joe here.
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About our October 2025 guest: Mark Traphagen — The U.S. contributing author to the legal treatise Copyright Throughout the World, Mark has taught international and comparative intellectual property law at the George Washington University Law School and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, a consortium that includes the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. After starting his legal career with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Finnegan Henderson LLP, Mr. Traphagen represented what is now the Software and Information Industry Association in negotiations for the WIPO Copyright Treaty and in the congressional enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He also advised clients about the implementation and enforcement of the WTO TRIPS Agreement and prepared submissions for the annual “Special 301” review by the U.S. Trademark Representative. Today, Mr. Traphagen is the principal of Traphagen Law PLLC, where he practices in the fields of copyright and trademark, entertainment and sports law, advertising and promotions, and privacy and data security. Click here to get LinkedIn with Mark.
About Copyright Throughout the World: Edited by an internationally recognized expert in copyright law, Copyright Throughout the World is a guide to the copyright law of more than 30 nations. This three-volume set is useful for copyright practitioners working with the internet and other media and for academics researching comparative laws. It analyzes the important features of copyright law, related rights, and moral rights from countries throughout the world. Topics covered permit easy comparison of the laws of different countries. Learn more here.
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About Tim’s Travails: In this podcast/video sereis, IP attorney and author Tim Trainer introduce us to experts around the country who have insight into the law, international trade, and more, to help us better understand our world in 2025 and beyond.
Tim, himself, fits the bill for he worked for three decades for the US government and private law firms focusing on international trade, and has developed a deep understanding of global economics and politics.
Writing books is his passion. The author of seven books as of 2025, he has penned several non-fiction tomes, including his first book, Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights; the 15th edition was published in 2020. Thomson Reuters’ Aspatore Books published Tim’s next title in 2015, Potato Chips to Computer Chips: The War on Fake Stuff. Fiction was a genre he always wanted to try. In 2017, Pendulum Over the Pacific was released by Joshua Tree Publishing. “This political intrigue story is set in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., and centers on trade tensions between the U.S. and Japan in the late 1980s,” Tim explains. In 2023, his first series hit bookstores: The China Connection. In December 2024, he followed it with The China Factor.
Stay tuned for more episodes on InkandescentRadio.com and Inkandescent.tv, and of course, log in regularly for new blog entries and other information on Tim’s website, www.TimothyTrainer.com.