Seminar series
Upcoming seminars and topics
Orphan Works: an academic and practical review of the current law
12th January 2023, 6.15pm
Bristows LLP
100 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DH
(In person)
For our first session of 2023, we will be looking at the UK’s orphan works regime which governs creative works or performances for which one or more of the right holders is either unknown or cannot be found. Maria Mercedes Frabboni will summarise the academic discussions around the Orphan Works Directive and developments under UK law, and Lord Justice Colin Birss will then talk us through his personal experience of applying for and successfully obtaining an orphan works licence.
Lord Justice Birss was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 25 January 2021 and Deputy Head of Civil Justice from 11 January 2021. He took silk in 2008, was appointed as a Specialist Circuit Judge of what we now know as IPEC in 2010, was appointed to the High Court in 2013, and has been a Deputy Chair of the Copyright Tribunal.
Dr Maria Mercedes Frabboni, Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex, has conducted research on regulation of non-attributable or abandoned visual art and published on issues surrounding the use of orphan works. She has also commented on reforms affecting the management of copyright by collecting societies in the music and art sectors, and is the Honorary Treasurer of BLACA.
Chair
Simon Clark, Honorary Secretary, BLACA
Past seminars
The proposed new UK text & data mining exception
8 December 2022, 6.15pm
From blockchain to NFTs, copyright issues and non-issues
11 October 2022, 6.00pm
Time for a new Copyright Act?
26 May 2022, 6.15pm
Exhaustion of rights and downstream uses
10 March 2022, 6.30pm
13 January 2022
The role of copyright in the commercialisation of intangible cultural heritage for sustainable livelihoods - Purulia Chau dance and Patachitra scroll painting.
Charlotte Waelde, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Research Centre for Dance Research, University of Coventry (C-DaRE)
9th December 2021, 6.30pm
11th November 2021, 5pm
IPKAT-BLACA-IFIM ON CJEU YOUTUBE/CYANDO JUDGMENT - 1 July 2021
Design Law after Brexit: Simon Clark in conversation with Alison Firth - 13 May 2021, 6pm
14 Jan 2021 6pm
Joint IPKat/BLACA/IFIM Rapid Response Event on CJEU YouTube/Cyando Ruling
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