Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th June, 2005

VENUE: Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London. WC1, UK.
Details of schedule, fees, accommodation, map etc listed below.

THEMES, SPEAKERS AND ABSTRACTS (provisional):

28th June 2005

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF COPYRIGHT LAW
Speakers
Professor Neil Netanel, UCLA School of Law
Copyright and 'market Power' in the Market Place of Ideas
Lucky Belder, Molengraaff Institute for Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Utrecht
Cultural Expressions, From Common Source to Public Domain
Dr Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén, The Department of Archival Science, Library- and Information Science, and Museology, Uppsala University.
Law and the Lawyer-Free Zone: Travels in the Public Domain

GLOBALISATION, CONVERGENCE, DIVERGENCE
Speakers
Professor Joost Smiers, Utrecht School of the Arts
Imagining a World Without Copyright
Professor Hector MacQueen, AHRB Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology, University of Edinburgh
Reforming Copyright: Some Achievable Goals

DEVELOPMENTS IN NEIGHBOURING AND RELATED RIGHTS
Speakers
Jonathan Griffiths, School of Laws, Queen Mary, University of London
“Mutant copyright law”? Protecting attribution rights at common law
Dr Stina Teilmann, University of Southern Denmark
It is a wise text that knows its own father: Some problems in paternity
rights

29th June 2005

COPYRIGHT AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Speakers
Dr Johanna Gibson, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Institute, University of London
Open Access, Open Source, and Free Software: Is there a Copy Left?
Andres Guadamuz, AHRB Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology, University of Edinburgh
Looking Back to Look Forward: Ten Years of Copyright and the Internet

PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE
Speakers
Professor Peter Fitzpatrick, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London
Copying Right: Cultural Property and the Limits of (Occidental) Law
Anthony Taubman, World Intellectual Property Organization
Protecting, preserving and respecting traditional cultural expressions: appropriation and inspiration; fair use and misuse; tradition and traduction; public domains and public demeaning

COPYRIGHT, CORPORATE POWER AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Speakers
David Berry, Department of Media and film, University of Sussex
A Critical Political Economy of the Free/Libre and Open-Source Software Movements
Dr Guido Westkamp, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London
Fundamental Rights and Copyright Architecture: Vision or Redundancy?
Tina Loverdou, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London
Copyright and human rights: confluences and conflicts - a general overview

Conference poster (to be posted shortly)
Conference Schedule (.pdf file) (now available)
Accommodation (.pdf file)
Map of Conference Venue/Area: Click on the building marked 2 (the Clore Management Centre, where the Clore Lecture Theatre is located) on the left-hand map to reveal a larger map of the area.
Conference Papers: These will be published on this website under 'Publications' (above) throughout July as electronic versions are received.

REGISTRATION:
Off-line Registration form: A registration form is now available by clicking here. This can be completed and returned with payment by fax or post to Valerie Kelley. The form will be in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. To view this you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader which can de downloaded by CLICKING HERE.
An on-line registration form for payment by credit card is now available here.

CONFERENCE FEES:
Conference registration only (£125)
Conference registration with dinner (£160)
Conference registration only, student rate (£75)
Conference registration with dinner, student rate (£100)

Day Rates
Conference registration only (£60)
Conference registration with dinner (£90)
Conference registration only, student rate (£35)
Conference registration with dinner, student rate (£60)