[Ecommerce] London Conference on New Directions in Copyright

[James Love]

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Subject: London Conference on New Directions in Copyright
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:34:50 +0100
From: Ian Brown <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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2004 - Annual Conference on New Directions in Copyright

Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th June, 2004

VENUE: Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore
Management Centre, Torrington Square, London. WC1, UK.

THEMES, CONVENORS, SPEAKERS AND ABSTRACTS:

29th June 2004

Theme 1: Theoretical Framework of Copyright Law
Convenor: Dr Kathy Bowrey, School of Law, University of New South Wales

Speakers: Dr Sue Konzelmann, and Dr Birgitte Anderson, School of
Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London

"Releasing the Productive Potential of Intellectual Property: Governance
and Value Creation Processes"

Dr Alain Pottage, Department of Law, London School of Economics,
University of London
"Droit d'auteur, copyright, and creative publics"

Professor David Vaver, St Peter's College, Oxford
"User Rights vs. User Exceptions: Reconceptualising the Public Domain"


Theme 2: Globalisation, Convergence and Divergence
Convenor:Dr Birgitte Andersen, School of Management & Organizational
Psychology, Birkbeck

Speakers: Professor Adrian Sterling, Queen Mary Intellectual Property
Research Institute, University of London
"Copyright Law in Europe and the USA: can the divergences converge?"

Professor Willem Grosheide, Centre for Intellectual Property Law,
Faculty of Law, University of Utrecht; Partner at Van Doorne Solicitors,
Amsterdam
"A Question of Right or of Expediency?"

Professor Martin Kretschmer, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy &
Management, Bournemouth Law School
"Are Creator and Investor Interests in Copyright Affected by Converging
Technologies"

Associate Professor Lee Davis, Dept of Industrial Economics & Strategy,
Copenhagen Business School
"Leveraging Copyrights to Appropriate Profits in Creative Industries:
new challenges"


Theme 3: Developments in Rights Neighbouring on Copyright
Convenor: Professor Lionel Bently, School of Law, Kings College London

Speakers: Dr Tanya Aplin, School of Law, King's College
"The Database Directive: Taking Stock"

Dr Ruth Towse, Reader in Cultural Industries, Erasmus University,
Rotterdam
"Economics of Performers' Rights: some developments"

Ms Leslie Kim Treiger-Bar-Am, St John's College, Oxford
"The Moral Right of Integrity: A Freedom of Expression"

Mr Michael Handler, RIRDC Research Fellow, Australian Centre for
Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA), Australian National
University
"Television Broadcast Copyright: The Australian Experience"


30th June 2004

Theme 4: Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Culture
Convenor: Professor Michael Blakeney, Queen Mary Intellectual Property
Law Institute

Speakers: Daphne Zografos, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research
Institute, University of London
"Cultural Expression: New Zealand"

Ms Johanna Gibson, Department of Law, Brunel University
"Freedoms and Knowledge, Access and Silence: Traditional Knowledge and
Freedom of Speech"

Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, Girton College, Cambridge
'Protecting channels of communication: some challenges from the Pacific'


Theme 5: Copyright and the New Technologies
Convenor: Professor Martha Woodmansee, Society for Critical Exchange,
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio

Speakers: Professor Peter Jaszi, American University School of Law,
Washington DC
"The Crisis in Fair Use and the Potential of a 'Best Practices'
Approach"

Professor Lisa Maruca, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Wayne
State University, Detroit
"Cultures of Copying, Cultures of Copyright: Academic Anxiety and the
Plagiarism Panic"

Dr Kathy Bowrey, Law School, University of New South Wales
"The New, the Bad, the Hot, the Fad - popular music, technology and the
culture of freedom"


Theme 6: Copyright, Corporate Power and Human Rights
Convenor: Dr Uma Suthersanen, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Institute

Speakers: Dr Charlotte Waelde, Co-Director of the AHRB Research Centre
for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of
Edinburgh
"Copyright, Corporate Power and Human Rights: Reality and Rhetoric"

Mr Darrell Panethiere, Consultant (Fostercraig) and ex-Vice President,
Legal & Business Affairs, Warner Music International
Title to be confirmed

Mr John Howkins, Director, Equator Group plc, and Director, IP Charter
"Is it Possible to Balance Creativity and Commerce?"

Professor Paul Heald, Allen Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia
"Losing to Disney: The Complex Lesson of Eldred v. Ascroft and the
Corporate Control of Copyright"

http://www.copyright.bbk.ac.uk/contents/conferences/2004/2004conf.shtml






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