Ibil Copyright Seminar - Wednesday Eighth February - Copyright Together With Liberty Of Speech

Copyright Law together with Freedom of Speech

Wednesday 8 Feb 2017, 18:00 - 19:30, followed past times a reception

UCL Darwin Building, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT

Copyright police describe oft idea to move designed to embody an appropriate remainder betwixt the demand to allow copyright owners command over uses of copyright plant (thereby providing an incentive for creativity) together with the demand to save or then access to those plant for socially valuable uses. Increasingly, however, copyright police describe has been dependent area to the criticism that it no longer strikes the correct remainder betwixt command together with access.

This seminar volition investigate the interaction betwixt copyright police describe together with the protection of liberty of speech communication from a issue of dissimilar angles.

This resultant volition include:

A thought from the U.S. – inward particular, considering Google v Garcia 786 F 3d 733 (9th Cir. 2015) together with the tendency for litigants to endeavor to purpose copyright police describe to remedy personal harms or to protect privacy interests.

A thought from the U.K. – the touching of recent jurisprudence from the Court of Justice of the EU attention to suggest that copying of relatively pocket-size parts of a operate may total to infringement; together with the introduction of novel exceptions.

In club to accomplish the correct balance, speakers ask: Do nosotros demand less copyright to promote complimentary speech communication (i.e. are electrical flow exceptions/defences are sufficiently broad)? Or, produce nosotros demand to a greater extent than copyright to promote complimentary speech communication (i.e. the proposed ancillary press publishers right)?

Speakers include:

Judge 1000 Margaret McKeown (US Court of Appeal, ninth Circuit)
Jonathan Griffiths (Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London)
Julia Reda (Member of the European Parliament, Pirate Party)
John Halton (Assistant General Counsel, Financial Times)

Chaired past times Professor Sir Robin Jacob (UCL IBIL)

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