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BLACA Seminar Programme for 2011 13 January 2011 The Past, Present and Future of the Copyright Tribunal Speaker: His Honour Judge Birss QC - His Honour Judge Fysh QC 10 March 2011 Unfinished business? Speakers: Don Glista; Andrew Yeates; Ben Challis; Florian Koempel 12 May 2011 Moral Rights in the UK and in France A comparative analysis by a panel composed of Prof André Lucas, Université de Nantes, and Kevin Garnett QC. 14 July 2011 “New day rising” ? A panel discussing the practical impact of recent announcements in the field of copyright. Speakers: Jackie Alway; Trevor Cook; Henry Ward; Florian Koempel 13 September 2011 Liability of Intermediaries A comparative analysis by a panel composed of Trevor Cook, Gaetano Dimita and Jaani Riordan, with Mr Justice Arnold in the chair. 5 October 2011 - Blaca–IPI seminar 2011 *The 50^th Anniversary of the Rome Convention* Session 1: The Rome Convention’s History and Future - Chair: Prof Johanna Gibson (IPI) "Rome Convention 1961: fifty years on: Retrospect and Prospect", Prof Adrian Sterling “From copyright to neighbouring rights and related rights, from the Rome Convention to TRIPS and WPPT”, Dr Gillian Davies “Progress in the Standing Committee and the road to a Diplomatic Conference”, Tom Rivers Session 2: Collective licensing as a sibling of the Rome Convention? - Chair: Dr Gillian Davies (Blaca) “The Role of Collective licensing and the recent challenges”, Dominic McGonigal “Extended Collective Licensing: a solution or an additional problem?”, Hubert Best Tuesday 25 October 2011 - BLACA - BCC joint meeting The communication to the public right in the light of the ECJ decision in the decoder cases (FAPL & Others v QC Leisure & Others; Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd) A panel discussion led by Professor Paul Torremans with Ted Shapiro (Senior Vice President, General Counsel Motion Picture Association, Brussels) and Jenine Hulsmann (Partner, Clifford Chance) contributing as panellists 7 November 2011 Simon Clark on the Meltwater case and the contrast between (increased) protection for small bits that are scraped off literally (Meltwater-Infopaq) on the one hand and the new proposed exceptions re parody and scientifc data mining on the other hand. 12 January 2012 Prof David Vaver on copyright reform in Canada. 8 March 2012 Hubert Best on extended collective licensing in the context of domestic copyright reform. 10 May 2012 Maria Martin-Prat (European Commission) on EU copyright developments
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