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Art in the Streets: Graffiti's Challenge to Intellectual Property RIPP Presents, "Art in the Streets: Graffiti's Challenge to Intellectual Property." Graffiti poses interesting challenges to intellectual property. Come hear how. Bring some questions because our panelists will be around for a Q & A after their discussion. Presenting insightful conversations with: Sterling Downey, Founder/Editor of Under Pressure Magazine Moderated by Nicholas Dodd, BCL/LLB ALL WELCOME Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160968484093 |
Droit d‘Auteur in the Information Society - Actual Challenges to Copyright for the Digital World The role of Copyright is changing. By ruling the access to and the use of information, culture, arts and works of entertainment it appears to be the maybe most important field of regulation for the information society. In the course of its change of meaning, its increasing relevance for stakeholders and the society copyright law faces new conflicts that need to be identified and solved by the legislators. In this connection the interests of authors, rights holders and users needs to be rebalanced in order to encourage modern forms of creativity and distribution and to find an appropriate scope of the copyright. The speaker will refer to these new challenges by addressing examples from the actual continental European copyright debate. Dr. Till Kreutzer - Biography Dr. Till Kreutzer (born 1971) is a lawyer and a partner at i.e., Consultant Bureau for Information Law in Hamburg. He is a member of the Institute for Legal Issues of free and open Software” (ifrOSS), founding member and editor at iRights.info, the information portal regarding copyrights in the digital world for consumers and people working in the creative industry, winner of the Grimme-Online-Award 2006. Dr. Till Kreutzer teaches copyright law, trademark law, data protection law and personality rights at various institutions (among other at the Akademie für Publizistik and the Evangelische Journalistenschule). In the context of the reform of copyright in the information society he was invited as expert to the hearing for the federal parliament legal committee at the enactment of the “Law on Regulation of Copyright in the Information Society” (First and Second Basket”) and was a member of the man working group, which the federal government had convened to set up the “Second Basket”. He is a lecturer in E-Learning and has developed various E-Learning modules and other learning and information materials on the topic of E-Learning and law, among other things the programme “Legal Issues in E-Learning”, which was awarded with the “European eLearning Award eureleA 2008”. Furthermore, he is the author of numerous articles on tipics related to information law in specialist and consumer publications (eg. GRUR, CR, MMR, ZUM, brand eins, Telepolis, Süddeutsche Zeitung, EPD Medien, Stern). His dissertation with Prof. Dr. Hoffmann-Riem concerned the model of copyright and regulation alternatives and was published at the end of 2008 at Nomos Verlag (see also www.iRights.info) |
(CIPP) CANNED KNOWLEDGE For its second edition, the Competition and Innovation Colloquium Series, led by Professor Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, will focus on the key resource of innovation industries: their human capital. A number of commentators have argued that the labour mobility of highly skilled employees is an important component of regional economic development in high technology industries. In particular, the success of Silicon Valley has been attributed by some scholars to the fact that Californian Law generally treats non-compete agreements as not enforceable clauses. This hypothesis constitute an invitation to discuss the law of not-to-compete agreements in a context where employees have access to confidential information or trade secrets. Moreover, legislation pertaining to immigration law obviously affects transnational movements of human resources and knowledge. This colloquium will gather American, European and Canadian academics, industry representatives and practitioners who will analyse policy and legal regimes surrounding employees mobility and its effect on regional growth. Speakers include: The Quebec Bar will grant 4 hours of continuing eduction credit for attenting this event. Registration is mandatory: download the registration form at http://www.cipp.mcgill.ca/en/events/upcoming/ contact Hélène Hamou at helene.hamou@mcgill.ca |