[Ecommerce] FYI: WIPO ISP liability agenda

[Manon Ress]

WIPO

E
WIPO/IIS/05/INF/1
ORIGINAL:  English
DATE:  March 30, 2005
WORLD  INTELLECTUAL  PROPERTY  ORGANIZATION
GENEVA

SEMINAR ON COPYRIGHT
AND INTERNET INTERMEDIARIES
Geneva, April 18, 2005
PROVISIONAL program
prepared by the Secretariat


9.00 =96 9.15=09Welcome and opening of seminar

=09Mrs. Rita Hayes, Deputy Director General, Copyright and Related Rights
and Industry Relations Sector, WIPO

9.15 =96 10.15=09Copyright liability of Internet intermediaries

(a)Dr. Charlotte Waelde, Co-Director, AHRB Research Centre in
Intellectual Property and Technology, and Lecturer, School of Law,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

(b)Ms. Lilian Edwards, Co-Director, AHRB Research Centre in Intellectual
Property and Technology, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

10.15 =96 11.00=09Regulatory perspectives on intermediary liability

(a)Mr. Jule Sigall, Associate Register for Policy and International
Affairs, US Copyright Office, Washington D.C.

(b)Ms. Tereza Struncova, Legal Officer, DG Internal Market and Services,
Unit E2 , European Commission, Brussels

11.00 =96 11.15=09Coffee break

11.15 =96 12.00 =09Notice-and-takedown procedures:  A workable solution?

(a)Mr. Hugh Jones, UK Publishers Association, London

(b)Mr. Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation, London

12.00 =96 14.00=09Lunch break

14.00 =96 14.45=09Peer-to-peer (P2P) services:  the case of online music

(a)Mr. Barney Wragg, Vice President, eLabs, Universal Music
International, London

(b)Mr. Christiaan A. Alberdingk Thimm, SOLV Advocaten, Amsterdam

(c)Ms. Sarah Deutsch, Vice President & Associate General Counsel,
Verizon Communications, Arlington

14.45 =96 15.30=09Case studies:  copyright policies of two Internet
intermediaries

(a)Mr. Jyrki Nikula, European Intellectual Property Counsel, eBay, Inc.

(b)[To be confirmed]

15.30 =96 15.45=09Moderated discussion

WIPO representative

15.45 =96 16.00=09Coffee break

16.00 =96 17.00 =09Round table discussion:  Ways forward - is there a need
for action at the
international level?

=09=09=09WIPO representative, with Member State delegates, speakers, etc.

17.00=09=09Closing of seminar
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