Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast

Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford, gave an evening seminar entitled "Mapping Marks and Markets: the Unitary Nature of the CTM" on Thursday 14th February 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

About the speaker:

Graeme Dinwoodie is the Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter's College. Prior to taking up the IP Chair at Oxford, Professor Dinwoodie was a Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has also previously taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and from 2005-2009 held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary College, University of London. He teaches and writes in all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on the international and comparative aspects of the discipline.

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Petroula Vantsiouri, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, gave an evening seminar entitled "The Justifications Behind the Legal Protection of Self-help Mechanisms" on Friday 30th November 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Petroula Vantsiouri is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie in intellectual property law and information law. Her doctoral thesis takes a comparative stand towards the intended and unintended consequences of anticircumvention regulation in the European Union and in the United States, as they are applied in different sectors, namely broadcasting, software and other copyright works.

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

This session brought together representatives from two very different organisations that have frequently advocated for reform of the current copyright regime. The objective of this session was to tease out the similarities and differences in the nature of each organisation’s respective criticisms of and objections to copyright law in its present form, as well as the similarities and differences in their preferred approaches and strategies for copyright reform.

The session was held by CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law) on 15th November 2012 at the Faculty of Law.

About the speakers:

Amelia Andersdotter is a Member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party in Sweden. She works with industrial policy in the parliamentary committee ITRE and is a substitute member of the committees for international trade, INTA, and budget control, CONT. She's the Patron of EPFSUG, the European Parliament Free Software User Group. She also works in the delegations for the Korean peninsula and the Andean Community. She is currently the youngest member of the European Parliament, and assumed office in December 2011.

Benjamin White is the Head of Intellectual Property at the British Library. He has a background in publishing, having worked for Pearson Education internationally, as well as for Ordnance Survey. He is active in the Intellectual Property field within the UK having sat on a number of bodies including the BBC's Creative Archive Advisory Board, the UK Government's Creative Economy Programme (Competition and Intellectual Property), i2010 Digital Libraries Programme, CBI Intellectual Property Board as well as the Institute of Public Policy Research's Advisory Board on Intellectual Property and the Public Sphere. He currently chairs the copyright group of the Council for European National Librarians; he sits on the UK Intellectual Property Office’s Copyright Research Expert Advisory Group and is a member of the advisory panel for the Digital Copyright Exchange Feasibility Study.

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

Sean Bottomley, Ph.D candidate in History, University of Cambridge, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Specification Requirement and the Diffusion of Technology During the Eighteenth Century" on Thursday 17th May 2012 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

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Helen Gubby, Adjunct Professor, Rotterdam School of Management and the School of Law, Erasmus University, gave an evening seminar entitled "Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: Why the Patent Disputes of the Industrial Revolution Shed Light on the Patent Disputes of the Digital Age" on Thursday 17th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Helen Gubby’s background is in law and history. She studied in England and was called to the Bar in 1978. Since 1980 she has worked in the Netherlands, as a legal translator and editor, lawyer, lecturer and academic. She has a master’s degree in history from the University of Leiden and a Ph.D. in law from the Erasmus School of Law. Her doctoral research traces the development of a legal paradigm for patents during the Industrial Revolution in England (1750s-1830s).

Her current research, carried out for the Rotterdam School of Management, examines the patent strategy of managers of small and medium sized companies. Helen Gubby’s publications reflect her background. She has written several textbooks on English legal terminology (English legal terminology: legal concepts in language (2011), which is now in its third edition, and Practical legal English: legal terminology (2006), the second edition will appear in 2012), co-authored a book on computers and law (Sentencing by computer: an experiment, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1982), a number of articles on this subject (including Legal decision making by computer: an experiment in sentencing, Computer/Law Journal, 1983) and more recently on patents (Taking patents seriously, International Law and Trade, and International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, vol. 2, 2007). Her book Developing a legal paradigm for patents will be published in January 2012.

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

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Keith Schilling, Senior Partner and Co-Founder of Schillings, gave an evening seminar entitled "Law, Celebrity and the Internet" on Wednesday 9th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Keith Schilling is Senior Partner and Co-Founder of Schillings, which is regarded as the pre-eminent claimant law firm in England, specialising in safeguarding the reputations and privacy rights of celebrities, international corporations, brands, as well as high-profile business and political figures. He also specialises in Divorce and family law where his expertise in handling consequential media issues involving threats to privacy and reputation of those involved is highly valued.

Keith is a Solicitor-Advocate and in 2008 was placed 10th in the Times list of the 100 most powerful and influential lawyers in England for his work in achieving a number of landmark decisions in privacy law and was named as one of the 1000 most influential people in London for the second year according to the Evening Standard’s 2009 survey. He has been described as "the Rottweiler" by Private Eye magazine, as well as the "Injunction King" by the Guardian, and a "formidable litigation lawyer"” by the Telegraph.

In an interview by the Sunday Times, Keith was quoted as being "… exactly the sort of lawyer you need in the libel trenches with you in dangerous times." and The Economist magazine has referred to Schillings as being"…the City’s most fearsome defamation lawyers". His work in defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, copyright and divorce, has made him one of the most sought-after media lawyers in Britain. He has helped to protect the reputations of film, sport and entertainment stars as well as top companies and business executives.

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

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David Lametti, Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Cloud as Enclosure 3.0" on Thursday 24th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). This was the first of two presentations.

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

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David Lametti, Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Virtue Ethics and IP/Property: The Briefest of Introductions" on Thursday 24th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). This was the second of two presentations.

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

This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

David Lametti, Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Cloud as Enclosure 3.0" on Thursday 24th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). This was the first of two presentations.

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

David Lametti, Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Virtue Ethics and IP/Property: The Briefest of Introductions" on Thursday 24th May 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). This was the second of two presentations.

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