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    The British Literary and

    Artistic Copyright Association

     

    The British Literary & Artistic Copyright Association, BLACA,

    is the UK national group of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI)

    founded in Paris in 1878 under the Presidency of Victor Hugo.

    It provides a forum for discussion of matters affecting the rights of authors and other copyright owners.

  • Our next seminar

     

    Rethinking copyright’s exclusive rights: how technology couldchange the current system
     

    When: 7 March 2024, 6pm

    Where: Bristows LLP, 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DH | Directions

    Speaker: Dr Fernanda Galera Soler

     

    Dr Galera is a lawyer, lecturer and researcher specialising inIntellectual Property, Entertainment and Media Law with a PhD and master’s degree in Intellectual Property from the University of São Paulo. She is a lecturer at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, and at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, as well as at the London College of Contemporary Music. Dr Galera will share with us her insights into how technologycould be used for the distribution of fair remuneration to each participant in the copyright value chain without the need of complex and broad economic rights, drawing on her research in Brazil and as an academic visitor at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre which culminated in her recently completed PhD thesis.

     

    Chair: Stephen Edwards, BLACA Chairman

     

     

    Save the date for our upcoming seminars

     

    9 May 2024,

     

    Recent news and updates

     

    On 17 February 2024, ALAI adopted a Resolution concerning the impact of AI on copyright, accessible here.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Membership

    The annual subscription is £50. This covers attendance at all the regular meetings and entitles members to a substantial discount on the fee for joint BLACA seminars. BLACA members are automatically members of ALAI with entitlement to discounted fees to attend its international Congresses and Study Days each year and to receive free copies of the proceedings (A special registration fee is available for registered students). Enquiries to Stephen Edwards.

  • Contact us

    Stephen Edwards, Chairman: sedwards@ReedSmith.com

    Sara Witton, Secretary: sara.witton@bristows.com
    Dr Maria Mercedes Frabboni, Honorary Treasurer: m.m.frabboni@sussex.ac.uk

     

  • Directions

    Seminars in presence will be held at Bristows,
    100 Victoria, Embankment, EC4Y 0DH