Modernising Copyright in the EU Digital Single Market
Current and future prospects for individual creators, content producers, online intermediaries and society at large
Date: Friday, 12 February 2016
Venue: Neill Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub
Proceedings/recording of the event is available from the TCD youtube video channel - here
Media Links
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/eu-copyright-a-web-of-complexity-for-content-providers-1.2532932
http://www.irelandip.com/2016/02/articles/intellectual-property/modernising-copyright-iceltcd-conference/
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/school-of-law-puts-spotlight-on-copyright-in-the-digital-age/6457#.VxPJj2Mw1SU (author Elizabeth Farries)
Pictured above, Elizabeth Farries, Dr. Giuseppe Mazziotti and Professor Eoin O'Dell
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About the Conference
The School of Law at Trinity College Dublin, together with the Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL), will host a workshop on the ongoing modernisation of copyright laws undertaken by the European Union. The workshop consists of four panel discussions on still unsettled issues of European and national copyright laws. The workshop aims at providing an up-to-date overview and an analysis of various problems Europe and its member states are facing while attempting to modernize the existing laws and make copyright fit for purpose in the Internet age. The program seeks to balance the views of practitioners, academics, industry and copyright holders.
Download an updated Programme here.
CPD Points - 5
Programme
09:30-10:00 |
Registration |
10:00-10:10 |
Welcome - Gary Fitzgerald BL Professor Oran Doyle |
10:10-11:25 |
Panel One: Digital Single Market - Multi-territorial licensing - Cultural diversity Moderator: Dr Eoin O’Dell Panellists: Dr Eleonora Rosati, University of Southampton Dr Giuseppe Mazziotti, School of Law, TCD |
11:25-11:45 |
Coffee break |
11:45-13:00 |
Panel Two: Exceptions and uncertainties about the scope of digital copyright Moderator: Dr Eleonora Rosati, University of Southampton Panellists: Linda Scales, Solicitor |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch (not provided) |
14:00-15:15 |
Panel Three: The copyright liability of online content platforms and social networks Moderator: The Hon. Mrs Justice Fidelma Macken Panellists: Dr Eoin O'Dell, School of Law |
15:15-15:30 |
Coffee break |
15:30-16:45 |
Panel Four: Fair remuneration of individual authors and artists Moderator: Dr Giuseppe Mazziotti Panellists: Allen Bargfrede, Berklee College of Music - via Skype |
Speakers and Moderators
Allen Bargfrede Based in Paris and Boston, Allen Bargfrede is the Founder and Executive Director of Rethink Music and associate professor of music business/management at Berklee College of Music. As an American attorney, Allen is also a recognized expert on content distribution, copyright law, and business environments for the music and technology industries. He also advises European startups and cultural SME's on entry into the North American market, and recently launched an investment fund for music, Blue Tile Media Partners. |
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Sarah Faulder Sarah was appointed Chief Executive of Publishers Licensing Society in October 2010. She had previously specialised in copyright at city law firm, Taylor Joynson Garrett (now Taylor Wessing), where she was a partner for ten years, before working in the music industry.
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Victor Finn Victor Finn, BBS, FCMA, was appointed CEO of IMRO (the Irish performing rights organisation) in 2008. A Chartered Management Accountant with a degree in Business Studies from the University of Limerick, Victor was previously Managing Director of MCPS (Ireland) (the Irish mechanical rights society). Following his appointment as CEO in 2009, IMRO took on the administration of mechanical rights on behalf of MCPS, creating one central royalty collection and licensing agency in Ireland. This facilitated seamless online licensing, allowing music services easier access to both repertoires. In January 2016 IMRO commenced the licensing and collection of sound recording rights on behalf of the record industry further streamlining the copyright licensing process.
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Glen Gibbons Glen Gibbons is a barrister practising in commercial litigation a particular expertise in IP Litigation and EU Law. He is a graduate of NUI Galway and Cambridge University and was called to the Irish bar in 2004.
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David Kavanagh David Kavanagh is the Chief Executive of the Writers' Guild of Ireland and Executive Officer of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe. He has been Film Officer of the Irish Arts Council, Chief Executive of the Irish Film Institute and General Secretary of the European Script Fund. David was a board member of the Light House Cinema and is currently a member of the Policy Review Group of the International Affiliation of Writers' Guilds. He is a member of the Irish Film and Television Academy and of the European Film Academy. |
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The Hon. Mrs Justice Fidelma Macken The Honourable Mrs. Justice Fidelma Macken was educated at Trinity College, and at King's Inns in Dublin, and holds an LL.M. from London School of Economics. In 2002 an Honorary Doctorate was conferred upon her by Trinity College Dublin to mark her contribution to the law. She was called to the Bar of Ireland in 1973, and subsequently to the Bar of England and Wales. She worked as legal counsel in a firm of patent and trade mark agents from 1973 to 1979. From 1979 to 1998 she practised as a barrister, becoming a Senior Counsel in 1995, and specialised in commercial and chancery work, intellectual property, environmental and administrative law, as well as in European Union and Irish constitutional law. |
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Dr Cédric Manara Dr Cédric Manara, PhD, has lost his hair teaching, writing or consulting. He has been a full time law professor at EDHEC Business School (France) and held visitorships in Finland, Italy, Japan and the USA, published a lot on intellectual property and internet legal issues, and also was a consultant for e-commerce companies or law firms. He joined Google's wonderful legal team as copyright counsel in 2013. |
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Dr Giuseppe Mazziotti is an Italian academic and legal advisor specialising in intellectual property law, media law, antitrust law and information technology law. Since October 2014, he has been an Assistant Professor of intellectual property law at Trinity College Dublin. Previously, from 2009 to 2011 he held the same position at the University of Copenhagen, where he also worked as a research projects leader funded by the EU Commission on EU media policy and legal aspects of public sector information. Giuseppe was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2004/2005); Columbia Law School, New York (2010/2011); and a Fellow at both the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society (2011/2012) and Instituto de Tecnologia & Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (2015). |
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Dr Eoin O'Dell Dr Eoin O'Dell is an Associate Professor of Law in Trinity College Dublin. He researches and publishes primarily in the fields of freedom of expression, and private and commercial law - and especially where they overlap in IP, IT and cyberlaw. |
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Dr Mira Sundara Rajan Mira is currently Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow and the CREATe copyright research centre. She is the director of the Glasgow/CREATe LL.M. in "Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment." |
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Dr Eleonora Rosati An Italian-qualified lawyer (avvocato), Eleonora Rosati runs her own copyright law and policy consultancy (e-LAWnora). She is a lecturer in intellectual property (IP) law at the University of Southampton, a guest lecturer in copyright law at EDHEC Business School, and an Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press). Previously she was a post-doctoral legal research associate at the University of Cambridge, and worked in the IP departments of Bird&Bird LLP in Milan and London. Eleonora has authored several contributions on IP issues, and regularly contributes to specialist blogs The IPKat and The 1709 Blog, for which she reports and comments on IP-related news from all over the world. |
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Linda Scales Linda Scales is a solicitor with a particular interest in copyright. She represents a wide range of clients in the cultural, media and content sectors, from national cultural institutions and international creative industry bodies, to individual artists and publishers, across all disciplines and media platforms. She lectures and writes on her areas of specialisation and is an enthusiastic observer of the evolution of copyright and related rights law as it applies in the online environment. |
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Dr Felice Simonelli Felice Simonelli is a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), where he conducts research and consultancy projects in the fields of better regulation and analysis of EU public policies within the Regulatory Policy Unit. He is also a Research Fellow at the Italian Space Agency, where he works on EU innovation policies in the space domain, and an Associate Researcher at the Industrial and Financial Research Centre of LUISS "Guido Carli" University (Rome), where he focuses on the interplay between regulation and industrial policy. He completed several projects on impact assessment, ex post evaluation and analysis of public policies for the European Commission and the European Parliament. With respect to copyright and the digital single market, in 2015 he was the coordinator of CEPS' research team responsible for carrying out a European Implementation Assessment of the EU copyright framework for the European Parliament and in 2013 he was part of the research team drafting CEPS' Task Force Report on Copyright in the EU Digital Single Market. Felice was a Visiting Ph.D. Student at The Buchmann Faculty of Law (Tel Aviv University) and a Visiting Researcher at Berkeley Law (University of California) and published several papers on refereed journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Law and Economics from LUISS University, an LL.M. cum laude in Law and Economics from Erasmus University of Rotterdam and from Ghent University, a M.Sc. cum laude in Law and Economics and a Bachelor cum laude in Economics and Business from LUISS. Native Italian speaker, he is fluent in English and has some knowledge in Spanish. He enjoys cooking Italian food and travelling around the world. |
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Workshop Organisers |
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Elizabeth Farries Elizabeth Farries is a Canadian lawyer with a practice and publication background in copyright, patent, and trademark litigation. She is currently researching the intersection between copyright, cyber crimes, and civil rights as a Frances E Moran Doctoral scholar at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. |
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Gary Fitzgerald Gary Fitzgerald is the Director of the Irish Centre of European Studies, Trinity College Dublin and a barrister specializing in Information Law. He has previously worked in the European Parliament and held a number of senior positons in the Irish Green Party. |
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Also a speaker and moderator, see above. |
The right to substitute and rearrange lecture(rs)s is reserved.
Reservations and Fees
Fees:* | Normal Fee - 125 euro Reduced Rate for TCD CPD Members - 100 euro ICEL Members/TCD Staff and Students - free of charge
Please note lunch is not included.
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