Seminar series
Save the date for our July seminar - 10 July 2025 - topic and speakers to be announced sooon
We hold our seminars at two-month intervals, usually January, March, May, July, September, November.
Our seminars usually take place on the second Thursday in the month. This may vary depending on the speakers' availability
Past seminars
AI and moral rights - Michele Woods, WIPO, Tanya Aplin, KCL, Catherine Bond, UNSW (remote recorded presentation), Fernanda Galera Soler
8 May 2025, 6pm
Copyright in Works of Artistic Craftsmanship: The WaterRower case
12 March 2025, 6 pm
The Metaverse: a review of the copyright issues and challenges. A report commissioned by the UK IP Office
9 Jan 2025, 6 pm
Copyright, International Trade and Cultural Diversity
14 Nov 2024, 6pm
An Update on the WIPO Copyright Treaties and an Account of the main copyright issues under discussion at WIPO
12 Sep 2024, 6 pm
BLACADebate: Who owns Ravel’s Boléro? 6pm at Bristows
11 July 2024, 6pm
Remunerated cross-border access to research materials, EODOPEN and other projects involving the Swedish Royal Library
12 June 2024, 5.30 pm
Pastiche versus Quotation: A tale of two exceptions?
9 May 2024, 6 pm
Rethinking copyright’s exclusive rights: how technology couldchange the current system
7 March 2024, 6pm
Copyright cases not to be forgotten
11 January 2024, 6.15 pm
'Defining ‘limitations’ and ‘exceptions’ in Article 13 TRIPS: Time for international clarity’?
30 Nov 2023, 6.15 pm
New York - Paris - London
16 November 2023, 6.15 pm
Moral rights in our contemporary landscape
12 October 2023, 6.15 pm
The absence of sunset: The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill and
its effect on copyright (and other) law
13 July 2023, 6.15 pm
Reflections on copyright in shrubberies and on garden designers who say ‘Ni’
11th May 2023, 6.15 pm
The key differences between IP Litigation in Scotland and England
2nd March 2023, 6.15 pm
Orphan works: an academic and practical review of the current law
12 January 2023, 6.15 pm
The proposed new UK text & data mining exception
8 December 2022, 6.15 pm
From blockchain to NFTs, copyright issues and non-issues
11 October 2022, 6.00 pmTime for a new Copyright Act?
26 May 2022, 6.15 pm
Rights and stage productions
12 May 2022, 6.15 pm
Exhaustion of rights and downstream uses
10 March 2022, 6.30 pm
The role of copyright in the commercialisation of intangible cultural heritage for sustainable livelihoods - Purulia Chau dance and Patachitra scroll painting
13 January 2022, 6.15 pm
The music streaming saga
9 December 2021, 6.30 pm
Alternative dispute resolution: a suitable option for solving copyright disputes?
11 November 2021, 5 pm
IPKAT-BLACA-IFIM on CJEU's YouTube/Cyando judgment
1 July 2021
Design Law after Brexit: Simon Clark in conversation with Alison Firth
13 May 2021, 6 pm
CASE C-265/19 – Victory or blog for performers' rights?
14 Jan 2021, 6 pm
IPKat/BLACA/IFIM Rapid Response Event on CJEU YouTube/Cyando Ruling
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