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Webcasts
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November 5, 2009 - 1:00 PM EST |
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October 20, 2009 - 6:00 EDT |
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October 16, 2009 - 12:30 EDT |
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September 21, 2009 - 12:30 EDT |
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April 24, 2009 - 09:00 EDT |
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February 19, 2009 - 19:00 EST |
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January 21, 2009 |
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October 21, 2008 |
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April 4, 2008
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November 6, 2007 |
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October 25, 2007 |
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October 2, 2007 |
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September 25, 2007 |
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April 23, 2007 James Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (formerly the Consumer Project on Technology), a non-government organization with offices in Washington, DC, London and Geneva. An advisor to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Mr. Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, and members of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Task Force on Intellectual Property. |
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April 19, 2007 Professor Shamnad Basheer (visiting at George Washington) speaks on India's new Patent Regime: TRIPS Implications. Professor Basheer completed a bachelor of civil law degree with distinction at Oxford as a Shell Centenary scholar, where his thesis dealing with biotechnology and patent law in India was awarded the second prize in a writing contest held by the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is currently an associate with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and is a Wellcome Trust scholar in the doctoral program at Oxford. His research interests include patents and developing countries and the interface between patents and antitrust. He is currently authoring a book on Indian patent law. |
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April 18, 2007 On April 1, 2007, the United States Trade Representative announced the conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea, and soon thereafter released a summary of the agreement. The summary of the agreement describes a pharmaceutical chapter that appears modeled on, and in many ways appears to exceed, regulations of the operation of public pharmaceutical reimbursement formularies included in the 2004 Australia-US FTA. Professor Tom Faunce is Director of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development's Globalization and Health Project. He is the Project Director of a three year Australian Research Council Project on the Impact of International Trade Agreements on Access to Medicines in Australia. Sean Flynn is the Associate Director of the Washington College of Law and counsel to the Forum on Democracy and Trade's state working group on pharmaceuticals and trade. |
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April 10, 2007 The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at the American University Washington College of Law and the Center for Social Media at the American University School of Communications, in collaboration with the DC Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA, present a lively discussion on the implications of copyright law for makers of participatory media and the platforms on which it is displayed. The discussion will emphasize strategies to avoid or minimize risk of copyright liability. |
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March 27, 2007 In conjunction with the ILSP's 25th Anniversary Celebrations, PIJIP will sponsor a panel featuring Carlos Correa and others on the relation between traditional knowledge and the development and human rights promotion interests of developing countries. |
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March 23, 2007 This will be the fourth in a series of workshops discussing the intersection of gender and intellectual property issues. Topics will include the impact on intellectual property law and policy of gender-related imbalances in wealth; cultural access; political power, and social control; creative production and gender; the effects of stereotyping and the feminization and masculinization of participant roles in intellectual property; the gendered development of IP doctrine; and feminist jurisprudential insights about intellectual property law. |
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September 21, 2006 At the Second Annual Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P. Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property, Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a talk entitled âRevisiting Fair Use.â In the lecture, Judge Kozinski discussed his proposal to abolish the fair use doctrine and the right to exclude others from use of the work through injunctions and substitute in their place a liability (damages-based) regime for copyright infringement. |
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March 24, 2006 This was the third in a series of workshops discussing the intersection of gender and intellectual property issues. Topics will include the impact on intellectual property law and policy of gender-related imbalances in wealth; cultural access; political power, and social control; creative production and gender; the effects of stereotyping and the feminization and masculinization of participant roles in intellectual property; the gendered development of IP doctrine; and feminist jurisprudential insights about intellectual property law. Panel 1
Dan Burk, University of Minnesota Law School Panel 2
Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center
Eileen Kane, Penn State Dickinson School of Law
Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina Law School Panel 3
Susan Scafidi, Southern Methodist University School of Law
Victoria Phillips, American University Washington College of Law
Boatema Boateng, University of California - San Diego |
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February 24, 2006 The Copyright Office is examining issues raised by âorphan worksâ, i.e. copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate. Concerns have been raised that the uncertainty surrounding ownership of such works might needlessly discourage subsequent creators and users from incorporating such works in new creative efforts, or from making such works available to the public. Featuring:
Prue Adler, Association of Research Libraries |
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November 18, 2005 Documentary filmmakers have created, through their professional associations, a clear, easy to understand statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use. Read the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. Fair Use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. It is a crucial feature of copyright law. In fact, it is what keeps copyright from being censorship. You can invoke fair use when the value to the public of what you are saying outweighs the cost to the private owner of the copyright. Hosted by:
Professor Patricia Aufderheide, American University, School of Communication |
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November 3, 2005 Does consumer protection have any role to play in copyright law? Many copyright professionals would reply with a resounding "no." Consumer interests have largely been ignored or rebuffed in recent copyright cases. The entertainment industry and key members of Congress seem to be actively hostile to consumers these days, especially to those consumers who engage in unauthorized file sharing of copyrighted music and movies. Proposals to make uploading of copyrighted works a felony, even if done recklessly, to give the Justice Department authority to bring civil actions against file sharers, and to immunize copyright owners who attack file sharers' computers are expressions of Congressional hostility to consumers. However, consumer protection has in the past and will in the future play a significant role in copyright law. Courts have frequently spoken of the ultimate goal of copyright as being to provide the public (i.e., consumers) with a wide array of new works of authorship that will promote knowledge, culture, and other societal values. Exclusive rights, in this view, are merely a means of achieving this larger goal of providing consumers with access to new works. Copyright law also contains many exceptions and limitations on authors' rights that are either expressly intended to protect consumer interests (e.g., allowing consumers to make backup copies of software) or have been interpreted as protecting consumer interests (e.g., allowing consumers to make copies of TV programs for time-shifting purposes). Significant gaps in regulation allow consumers to make many unauthorized uses of copyrighted works, for example, to perform music in the privacy of their homes because copyright only regulates public performances of protected works. Given the Supreme Court's view that fair uses may be constitutionally required, consumers may have "fair use rights" under copyright law, not merely privileges to do certain things (which can be rescinded by license terms or technical protection measures) or defenses that can be raised if copyright owners sue them. I predict that copyright law will evolve to become an important source of consumer protection in the 21st century. |
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