Date and time:
Friday 27th January 2006, 9.00 am

Venue:
Room G09, Old Anatomy Building, Charterhouse Square London EC1, UK
Nearest underground station: Barbican on the Metropolitan and Circle line (This is a change as of 9.11.05)

Map of venue available for download

Workshop organiser:
Dr Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
u.suthersanen@qmul.ac.uk

PROGRAMME

9.00-11.00 SESSION A - ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE

Dr Estelle Derclaye
Covington & Burling, Brussels
Database right: the necessity to take the public’s right to information into account?

Dr Christophe Geiger
Max Planck Institute, Munich
Copyright and the Public's Right to Information: A Complex Relationship

Dr Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Education, IPRs and Fundamental Freedoms – The right to knowledge

11.00-11.30: Tea and Coffee

11.30-12.30 SESSION B - CULTURE AND SPEECH

Professor Christoph Beat Graber
University of Lucerne/World Trade Institute, Berne
Traditional Cultural Expressions, Copyright, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights

Mr Jonathan Griffiths
School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London
Comparative Advertising and Copyright Law - the claims of free speech

12.30-2.00: Lunch

2.00-3.30 SESSION C - POLITICS AND TRADE

Dr Meir Pugatch
University of Haifa
Political Economy of Intellectual Property Policy-Making:Theory and Practice - An observation from a realistic (and slightly cynical) perspective
Draft paper

Professor Janet Dine
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
International Trade Treaties and the Distribution of Market Risk

3.30-4.00: Tea and Coffee

4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP DISCUSSION

There is no charge for attendance at the workshops, but numbers are limited and people wishing to attend should reserve a place by contacting Valerie kelley on v.kelley@bbk.ac.uk (020 7323 4408).