Inspiration, Innovation, or Infringement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Piracy and Copyright - Emmanuel College

An interdisciplinary conference for invited scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider piracy and copyright infringement from the perspectives of their fields. Several lines of inquiry will be pursued: piracy and moral opprobrium; appropriation of “expressions” (as opposed to “ideas”); justifications for appropriation of expression (fair use; fair dealing). The fields represented include literature, music, history of the book, criminology, anthropology, information technology, comparative law, legal history, linguistics, and economics. Each non lawyer presenter will be paired with a legal commentator.

Workshop leaders: Professor Lionel Bently (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law; Professorial Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge), Dr Jennifer Davis (Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge) and Professor Jane Ginsburg (Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School). 

For further details please contact Gaenor Moore