26.02.2010

Intellectual Property and the Information Society in the EU

Academy of European Law (ERA)
Metzer Allee 4
D-54295 Trier
Phone: +49 (0)651 93 7370
Fax: +49 (0)651 93 7379
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Academy of Europan Law
Metzer Allee 4 14
D-54295 Trier

Germany

Today's global information society and the rapid pace of technological developments characterised by works capable of being digitised, transmitted and reproduced instantaneously by broadcasting, cabling or over computer networks is posing significant challenges for intellectual property rights holders, consumers and policymakers. Modern intellectual property law faces new issues related to the conflict between several fundamental rights such as access to education, freedom of expression and the right of privacy. The advent of modern technologies that recognise no national boundaries requires clear rules on applicable law and effective enforcement measures.

This one-day conference will give the opportunity to look at how the European Union through its policies, legislation and case law is tackling emerging intellectual property issues in the field of competition law, collective management of copyright and right of privacy. New EU initiatives related to the impact of copyright on education and research in the knowledge economy and the pan-European licensing of music rights will also be discussed.

John Temple Lang (Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP); Krzysztof Kuik (Head of Antitrust and Media Unit, DG Competition, European Commission); Enrique Barón Crespo (President, European Foundation for the Information Society, former President of the European Parliament); Alberto Bercovitz (Abogado, Professor of Commercial Law, UNED, Madrid); Francisco Sauquillo (President, Spanish National Consumer’s Council); Manuel Desantes Real (Professor of International Private Law, University of Alicante, former Vice-President of EPO); Peter Hustinx (European Date Protection Supervisor); Tilman Lueder (Head of Copyright Unit, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission); Maria Badia i Cutchet (MEP, Member of the European Parliament Culture Committee); Iñigo Méndez de Vigo (MEP, President of the Administrative Board, College of Europe, Bruges); Anna Terrón (Secretary for European Affairs, Generalitat de Catalunya)