Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast

Patricia Collis is a UK and European trade mark and design attorney at Bird & Bird in London. She has worked in the field of brand management for almost 10 years, and acted for some of the world’s largest brands. Prior to embarking on this career she studied for a law degree and then an LLM at the University of Cambridge.

Patricia gave an evening seminar entitled "A Career in Brand Management: Becoming A Trade Mark Attorney" on Wednesday 17 February 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

Christopher Kuner Professor of Law and Co-Chairman (with Prof. Paul De Hert) of the Brussels Privacy Research Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, gave an evening seminar entitled "Reality and illusion in EU data protection law post Schrems" on Monday 25 January 2016 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

BACKGOUND TO THE TALK: The path-breaking Grand Chamber judgment of the European Court of Justice in the Schrems case (2015) declared invalid the Commission's Safe Harbour Decision - which had been a principal mechanism for ensuring the transfer of personal information between the EU and US for well over a decade - on the basis that it failed to ensure "adequate" protection. The Court also stated that, irrespective of any Commission Decision, Data Protection Authorities were in fact responsible for investigating whether "adequacy" had in fact been achieved and suggested that "adequate" had the stringent meaning of "essentially equivalent" to the EU regime.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Christopher Kuner is Professor of Law and Co-Chairman (with Prof. Paul De Hert) of the Brussels Privacy Research Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB or Free University of Brussels, a major research university located in central Brussels). He is also an associate professor in the Law Faculty of the University of Copenhagen, an affiliated lecturer and Honorary Fellow of the Centre for European Legal Studies of the University of Cambridge, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Law in the London School of Economics and Political Science and Senior Privacy Counsel in the Brussels office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He is also editor-in-chief of the periodical 'International Data Privacy Law' published by Oxford University Press. He previously founded and led the European data protection practice at Hunton & Williams in Brussels, and also worked at the law firms of Morrison & Foerster (Brussels) and Gleiss Lutz (Stuttgart and Frankfurt).

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

Professor Carlos Maria Correa (Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property at the Law Faculty, University of Buenos Aires) gave a seminar entitled "The Role of Intellectual Property for Development – Experiences from 20 Years of TRIPS" on Thursday 26 November 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Professor Carlos Maria Correa is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property at the Law Faculty, University of Buenos Aires, and Special Advisor on Intellectual Property and Trade of the South Centre. He has been visiting professor in post-graduate courses of several universities and consultant to various regional and international organizations. He has advised several governments on intellectual property, innovation policy and public health. He was a member of the UK Commission on Intellectual Property, of the Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Public Health established by the World Health Assembly and of the FAO Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.

Abstract: One of the key arguments of the proponents of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) adopted as a component of the World Trade Organization was that high levels of intellectual property protection would boost innovation globally. The world map of R&D, however, does not show a general improvement of R&D outcomes in the last twenty years, particularly in developing countries. Moreover, many economic studies have cast doubts about the impact of intellectual property, notably patents, on innovation in developed economies.

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

Rebecca MacKinnon (Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America) gave a seminar entitled "Ranking Digital Rights Project" on Friday 20 November 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Rebecca MacKinnon is Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America. Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom and co-founder of Global Voices Online, she was a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative and now serves on the Board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon was a Bureau Chief and correspondent for CNN in China and Japan in the late 90s and early 00s. She is a visiting affiliate at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and served on the faculty at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre. She has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein and Berkman Centers, the Open Society Foundations, and Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

Abstract: We rely on dozens of companies – such as Facebook, Google and AT&T – for the products and services that power our digital lives. But how committed are these companies to respecting our digital rights like privacy and freedom of expression? In early November, New America's Ranking Digital Rights project will launch its inaugural Corporate Accountability Index with a ranking of 16 of the world’s most powerful Internet and telecommunications companies on their commitments and disclosed practices affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. Which companies are doing better than others? What concrete steps can companies take to improve? Come hear director Rebecca MacKinnon explain the most important and surprising findings from the Index.

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

On Tuesday 10 November 2015, Lionel Bently and Jane C Ginsburg presented a discussion on 'Fair Quotation and Fair Use: Appropriation Art, Data-mining, and Google Books' in the Harrods Room at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Professor Jane Ginsburg FBA is Morton L Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University in the City of New York and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She is the inaugural CIPIL Visiting Fellow.

Professor Lionel Bently is Director of CIPIL in the Faculty of Law, and a Professorial Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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

Professor Dan Burk (University of California, Irvine) gave an evening seminar entitled "Inventing Around Copyright" on Thursday 23 April 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Dan L. Burk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a founding member of the law faculty. An internationally prominent authority on issues related to high technology, he lectures, teaches, and writes in the areas of patent, copyright, electronic commerce, and biotechnology law. He is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on Internet regulation, on the structure of the patent system, and on the economic analysis of intellectual property law.

Professor Burk holds a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University, a J.D. (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M. (1994) from Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Irvine, he taught at the University of Minnesota. He has served as a legal advisor to a variety of private, governmental, and intergovernmental organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union Committee on Patent Policy and the OECD Committee on Consumer Protection.

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

Mireille van Eechoud, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, gave an evening seminar entitled "Open Data in European Intellectual Property Law" on Thursday 13 March 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Mireille van Eechoud is associate professor, and teaches in IViR's Information Law master programme. A substantial part of her research focuses on international and European intellectual property law, especially copyright, related rights and database protection. Her most recent book in this field, co-authored with Hugenholtz et al. is Harmonizing European Copyright Law. The Challenges of Better Law Making (Kluwer Law International 2009).

She is a member of the European Max-Planck Group for Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (CLIP). This international group of scholars develops principles and aims to provide independent advice to European and national law-makers. Mireille is the project leader of a multidisciplinary research project on creativity and collaborative authorship in copyright law (2010-2012). This is a collaborative research project funded by ESF/HERA, in which IViR partners with Infomedia (University of Bergen, Norway) and CIPIL.

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

Professor Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley, delivered the Tenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: A Pragmatic Approach' on Tuesday 10 March as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley. She is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment at Berkeley Law School and UC Berkeley's School of Information. Samuelson is a director of the internationally-renowned Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as well as on the advisory boards for the Center for Democracy & Technology, Public Knowledge, and the Berkeley Center for New Media.

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

Professor Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley, delivered the Tenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: A Pragmatic Approach' on Tuesday 10 March as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley. She is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment at Berkeley Law School and UC Berkeley's School of Information. Samuelson is a director of the internationally-renowned Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as well as on the advisory boards for the Center for Democracy & Technology, Public Knowledge, and the Berkeley Center for New Media.

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

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Laura A. Heymann, William & Mary Law School, gave an evening seminar entitled "Dialogues of Authenticity" on Thursday 26 February 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Laura Heymann is Vice-Dean at William & Mary Law School, where she is also a Professor of Law. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was elected to Order of the Coif and served as the Book Review Editor on the California Law Review. Prior to her appointment, Professor Heymann was the inaugural Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Administrative Fellow in the Intellectual Property Law Program at The George Washington University Law School. She has also served as an assistant general counsel at America Online, Inc.; as an associate at Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering in Washington, D.C.; and as a law clerk to the Hon. Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Professor Heymann worked as an assistant editor at St. Martin's Press in New York. She received her B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from Yale. Professor Heymann was selected by the 2008 graduating class as the recipient of the Walter L. Williams, Jr., Memorial Teaching Award and was the 2012 recipient of the College's Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award. She received a Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence in 2012 and was the Class of 2014 Professor of Law from 2011 to 2014.

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