Monday 30 September 2013 10:30am to 11:30am
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About
A workshop as part of a CIGREF-funded project entitled Intellectual Property Law and Freedom: between the national and the international.
Location: S1, Alison Richard Building
Convener: Dr. Ge Chen (Research Associate in Intellectual Property and Global Regulation, CRASSH, University of Cambridge) The workshop is free to attend but registration is required.
Online booking will be available shortly on the event website here.
Summary: What are the fundamental tensions inherent in the protection of copyright and privacy in the context of P2P transmission and SNWs – two most debated Internet-related phenomena? In the narrative of the knowledge economy, the Internet-related market typically consists of producers and consumers. Thus, digital regulation has been confronted with the challenge of finding balance between the conventional proprietary model and the competing Open Access/Creative Commons model. Meanwhile, as Netizens (Internet citizens), we are all entitled to fundamental rights pertaining to the information society. Yet, in terms of civil liberties, privacy inevitably clashes with freedom of speech. Clearly, a new regulatory framework is needed to bring those various sets of tensions into viable conversation at the global level. While copyright and privacy share commonalities in protecting the interests of both personality and commerciality, would it be possible to find a common, media-related regulatory paradigm? What, for example, could serve as the constitutional basis of the global information law?
This workshop is part of a CIGREF-funded project entitled “Intellectual Property Law and Freedom: between the national and the international”. It focuses on the global trends in regulation and deregulation in the context of P2P transmission and SNWs, which will be of interest not only to IP, privacy and civil rights lawyers, but also to historians, political scientists, multinational companies and legislators. The workshop draws leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Netherlands, the UK, and the US with interdisciplinary discussions and proposals on how to bring forth a new agenda that addresses the global regulatory framework of copyright and privacy.
The workshop will take place over two days – combining discussions about two themes:
1. IP issues: -Must an action be brought in every country where online copyright infringement is said to occur? How are copyright owners to get to grips with a multiplicity of distinct sets of national regulations? -What are the implications of Open Access/Creative Commons/Access to Knowledge Movement? -How can the tension between these two issues be understood and developed towards an agreed framework.
2. Privacy issues: -If a violation of privacy occurs in an online environment, is the case to be brought in the place of production, the place of access, or the jurisdiction of the victim? -Should special rules be developed for violations of privacy, or should similar enforcement mechanisms apply as for copyright? -What privacy rights do users of social networks need? -What social and ethical implications does this have for developers and users of such technologies? -Can users contract out of their privacy rights? -And how are the privacy rights of one user to be reconciled with the expressive interests of others?
Invited speakers include:
- Dr Ian Brown (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute; Associate Director, Cyber Security Centre, University of Oxford)
- Dr Anne SY Cheung (Professor & Co-Director of Law and Technology Centre Department of Law, University of Hong Kong)
- Dr Niva Elkin-Koren (Professor & Director of Haifa Center for Law and Technology Faculty of Law, University of Haifa) -
- Dr David Erdos (University Lecturer in Law & Open Society, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Michael A Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa)
- Margot Kaminski (Research Scholar & Lecturer in Law, Executive Director of the Information Society Project, Yale Law School)
- Dr Rohan Kariyawasam (Solicitor, FRSA Professor of Commercial Law & the Digital Economy Middlesex Law School, Middlesex University)
- Dr Uta Kohl (Lecturer in Law, Department of Law & Criminology, Aberystwyth University)
- Dr Christopher Kuner (Senior of Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Brussels; Honorary Fellow, CELS, University of Cambridge)
- William McGeveran (Associate Professor; Lampert Fesler Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Law School)
- Dr Jan Oster (DAAD Lecturer in Law, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, University of London)
- John G Palfrey (Professor & Head of School, Phillips Academy; Director of Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University)
- Dr Gerrit-Jan Zwenne (Full professor, Centre for eLaw@Leiden, Faculty of Law, Leiden University; Partner, Bird & Bird LLP
Supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) and the Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law.