Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast

On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'Intellectual Property and Human Rights'.

In this recording, Professor Jonathan Griffiths of QMUL speaks on the topic of 'The Balancing Methodology'.

On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'Intellectual Property and Human Rights'.

In this recording, Dr Martin Husovec of the University of Tilburg speaks on the topic of 'The Human Right to Intellectual Property in the Charter'.

On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'Intellectual Property and Human Rights'.

In this recording, Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan of the University of Cambridge speaks on the topic of 'Linking Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Concepts, Perspectives, and Tools for Integration'.

On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'Intellectual Property and Human Rights'.

In this recording, Dr Surabhi Ranganathan of the University of Cambridge speaks on the topic of 'The International Sources of Human Rights: The UDHR, Covenants, ECHR and EU Charter'.

Rupprecht Podszun is a full professor for civil law and competition law at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany. Previously, he held the chair for civil law, IP law and economic law at the University of Bayreuth. He was a Senior Research Fellow with the Munich Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition from 2007-2012 and a case officer at the German national competition authority from 2005 to 2007. He is an editor of the leading German competition law journal Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb and of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law. At present, Rupprecht is a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge.

Rupprecht gave an evening seminar entitled "Contextualising the IP versus competition law clash – an evolutionary approach to the Huawei case" on 2 March 2017 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk

Dr Kathy Bowrey is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her research explores laws and practices that inform the production, distribution and reception of culture and knowledge creation, with a particular interest in analysing the impact of the regulatory environment on creative practice, public institutions and understandings of community, identity and nationhood. Her primary expertise relates to intellectual property, media and information technology regulation, informed by legal history, feminist legal scholarship and a concern for Indigenous rights.

Kathy gave an evening seminar entitled "Myths, Legends and Imaginary Legal Subjects: Reconsidering the legal and business relations of Lewis Carroll, Beatrix Potter, Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse" on 2 February 2017 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk

Professor Michael Madison is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He writes and teaches about intellectual property law and policy, and about questions concerning the production and distribution of knowledge and innovation. He is the author of more than 30 journal articles and book chapters, the co-author of The Law of Intellectual Property (Wolters Kluwer, 4th edition 2013) and the co-editor of Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford University Press 2014). He is the co-founder of the global research network titled the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons. Classroom subjects include various disciplines of intellectual property law, contracts and commercial law, and property law. His research and scholarship address the emerging discipline of knowledge commons, governance of innovation institutions, and knowledge as a subject of legal regulation. He joined the Pitt Law faculty in 1998. Before becoming a law professor, Professor Madison practiced law in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for nine years. He received his JD from Stanford University and his BA from Yale.

Michael gave an evening seminar entitled "Governing Medical Knowledge Commons" on 25 October 2016 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk

Dr Rufus Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge, an international non-profit using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and see it used to create insight that drives change. He was formerly a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and remains an Associate of the Centre for Information and Intellectual Property Law at Cambridge. He is an adviser on open data to several governments and has worked extensively as a scholar, activist and technologist on the social, legal and technical challenges surrounding the creation and sharing of knowledge.

Rufus gave an evening seminar entitled "Making an Open Information Age: Law, Politics and Economics" on Wednesday 11 May 2016 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk

On Thursday 28 April, Dr David Erdos, University Lecturer in Law and the Open Society, Faculty of Law & WYNG Fellow in Law, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge gave a CELS/CIPIL Joint Seminar on the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This seminar takes a first look at the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now finally agreed by the European institutions. Is it a “historic victory” for EU citizens as argued by Viviane Reding - the EU Commissioner responsible for its inception in 2012 - or does it as DIGITALEUROPE suggests fail to "strike the proper balance between protecting citizens’ fundamental rights to privacy and the ability for business in Europe to become more competitive" as well as appropriately reconcile the right to data protection with other fundamental rights? The talk will argue that, whilst the GDPR will further the EU’s track record of safeguarding individuals in a world of ever accelerating technological threats, it is also likely to both entrench and augment many of its pathologies including a lack of clarity as regards goals, a poor fit with liberal freedoms, an excess of bureaucratic red tape, and a large and growing gap between the law on the books and contemporary digital realities.

Slides for this presentation are available at:

http://www.slideshare.net/DavidErdos1/historic-victory-or-false-dawn-analysing-the-eu-data-protection-regulation

Session 4: What else might a law do? The effects on consumers, the internet, new entrants to the market, and freedom of expression. Professor Ian Hargreaves (University of Cardiff), chairs a panel discussing these issues comprised of Professor John Naughton (University of Cambridge), Agustín Reyna (BEUC), James Mckenzie (Cutbot), Professor Mireille van Eechoud (University of Amsterdam)

This is a recording of a conference entitled "Conference: Copyright, related rights and the news in the EU: Assessing potential new laws" held on Saturday 23rd April 2016 at the University of Amsterdam.

The difficulties of commercial journalism

Like music and other branches of publishing, commercial news journalism has faced radical challenges over the last two decades. There is talk of the "death of the newspaper" and questions have been raised about the very future of journalism. While with music, books and films, the greatest threat to existing business models have been seen as the unauthorised and unremunerated home copying and peer-to-peer distribution, with commercial news journalism much of the challenge derives from the fact that advertising has not followed the shift of print-newspapers to the Internet. Such difficulties are compounded, from the point of view of news publishers, by the relatively free availability of news from other online sources. And they’ve been further compounded by the recent rise of social media, particularly Facebook, as a main route to the news.

Questions that arise

Is there sufficient rationale to alter copyright or related laws in a way that benefits news publishers? Should commercial news publishers benefit from any change in the law, given that other means exist for gathering and disseminating news? How strong is an economic case for such a right? To what extent is any economic case for change supplemented by other arguments, such as reward and natural rights arguments, and arguments about media plurality? Should European law treat news publishers in a similar way to other content producers, such as phonogram producers and broadcasters, who benefit from a related right? Would individual journalists benefit from a right afforded to news publishers, and if so, to what extent? Should news publishers benefit from levies and compensation schemes designed to benefit author-journalists?

This one day conference at IViR sought to address these questions. The conference was part of a two-year, AHRC funded project at CIPIL, Cambridge University, entitled Appraising Potential Legal Responses to Threats to the Production of News in a Digital Environment, which the IViR kindly hosted and facilitated.

The conference brought together an interdisciplinary combination of academics and practitioners to discuss the issue, including representatives from news producing, publishing and disseminating organizations, both traditional and online.

More information: http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/conference-copyright-related-rights-and-news-eu-assessing-potential-new-laws