[Ecommerce] TACD, Feb 4 workshop in Brussels, Copyright in the Digital Age

[James Love]

            Copyright in the Digital Age, Brussels
                       February 4, 2004
        Hotel Renaissance, 19 rue du Parnasse, Brussels

This is a one day workshop hosted by the The Trans Atlantic
Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Committee on Intellectual Property,
with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.  There is no
fee to attend, but pre-registration is required, by
contacting TACD Coordinator, Ben Wallis
(bwallis@consint.org, Tel: +442072266663 Ext 218)

Agenda

09.00 - 09.15  Welcome and introduction
   -    Rhoda Karpatkin, President Emeritus of Consumers Union
-    Felix Cohen, General Director, Consumentenbond

09.15 - 10.45 Part I: General overview  - what is copyright
and what are the policy developments of interest to
consumers?

Moderator: James Love, Consumer Project on Technology

- Jule Sigall, US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
- The role of industry - Bertrand Moullier, Director
General, International Federation of Film Producers
Associations (FIAPF)
- Nick Ashton-Hart, Executive Director, International Music
Managers Forum (IMMF) - The rights of authors and performers
- Ann E. Chaitovitz, American Federation of Television and
Radio Artists - The rights of authors
- Chris Murray, Consumers Union - The consumer perspective

10.45 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.30 Part II: Technical Protection measures and
their effect on fair use.

Moderator: Anna Fielder, Director of the Office for
Developed and Transition Economies, Consumers International.

- Richard Owens, Head of Copyright E-Commerce, Technology
and Management Division, World Intellectual Property
Organisation
- Bernt Hugenholz, Professor,  University of Amsterdam -
Contractual use and exceptions to copyrights
- Laurence Lebersborg, Test-Achats (Belgium) - Technical
Protection of CDs
- Gwen Hinze, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Digital rights management
- Michelle Childs, Head of Policy Research, Consumers
Association (UK) - Regional encoding of DVDs and CDs


12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.00 Part III: Enforcement of copyrights in the
digital age
Considering how rights and exceptions are balanced, looking
at the strain on priorities of enforcement bodies, privacy
versus enforcement of copyrights, and EU and US legislation
(DCMA IPR-enforcement directive)

Moderator: Victoria Villamar

- Rogier Wezenbeek, DG Internal Market, European Commission
- Ted Shapiro, Vice President, Europe Motion Picture
Association
- Christiaan Albedink Thijm, SOLV new business advocaten
- Sarah Deutsch, Verizon, VP & Associate General Counsel
- Volker Grassmuck, Helmholtz Center for Cultural
Technology, Berlin

15.00 - 15.15 Break

15.15 - 16.45 Part IV: How, and by whom, will digital
information be controlled?

Moderator: Ed Mierzwinski, US Public Interest Research Group

- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, International Institute of Infonomics
- Manon Ress, Consumer Project on Technology
- Robin Gross, IP Justice
- Machiel van der Velde, Consumentenbond

16.45 - 17.00 Break

17.00 - 18.00 Closing panel: Conclusions of the day=92s
discussions

Moderator: Machiel van der Velde, Consumentenbond

- Richard Owens, Head of Copyright E-Commerce, Technology
and Management Division, World Intellectual Property
Organisation
-  Responses to day=92s discussions, 3-5 minutes each, from
Michelle Childs, Anna Fielder, Victoria Villamar, Manon Ress
and Gwen Hinze
- comments and questions from the floor


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James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org
tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040