CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar: 'From Shevill to Pinckney: How the European Courts Balance Information Regarding Rights in Internet Jurisdiction'

Speaker: Dr Ge Chen (Research Associate, CRASSH and CIPIL)

Location: Room B16

The tension between copyright/personality rights and freedom of expression/information epitomises information-regarding disputes that often derive from behaviour in the Internet and assumes international nature. But before a court decides on the merits, it may need to determine jurisdiction issues by different jurisdictional approaches that are an important step towards striking the balance between different information-regarding rights.The speaker will analyse how different jurisdictional approaches could ultimately contribute to such a balancing goal in the light of recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

Ge Chen is a Research Associate in intellectual property and global regulation at the University of Cambridge, where he is working on a CIGREF-funded project entitled "Intellectual Property Law and Freedom: between the national and the international". The project is based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and committed to studying the intertwining relationship between freedom and regulation in copyright and privacy law in digital environment from both national and international perspectives. The project aims at exploring the issue under different national jurisdictions and international law and establishing models for understanding the legal issue in order to facilitate future strategies and policies.

A sandwich lunch will be provided.