Carissimi,
Segnalo
a quanti si dovessero trovare a Glasgow o dintorni l'evento in
oggetto.
Un caro saluto.
Thomas
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Dear
Colleagues,
CREATe,
the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the
Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow, warmly invites
you to join us on October 19th for a public lecture
by Professor Martin Kretschmer on Copyright Reform in the Brexit
Environment. The following week, October 26th , our
public lecture will mark the Creative Commons UK with talks by
Timothy Vollmer and Gwen Franck from Creative Commons.
Copyright
Reform in a Brexit environment
By
Prof. Martin Kretschmer, Director of CREATe, the RCUK Copyright
Centre
Where:
University of Glasgow, Humanities Lecture Theatre,
When: Wednesday, October 19th, 17:30
This
event is part of the CREATe Public Lecture Series 2016. Also see
page here.
On
September 14th, the European Commission presented a package of
proposed copyright reforms
under the banner of promoting a Digital Single Market (DSM).
In
fact, the initiative tries to overcome a legislative stalemate
of 15 years (since the Information Society Directive of 2001),
during which the job of migrating copyright law into a digital
world had been largely left to the European Court of Justice.
Among
the measures announced are potentially far reaching
interventions, such as establishing the principle that online
rights need to be cleared only in the country of origin
(bypassing the need to acquire licences in 28 EU countries –
though the provision applies only to broadcasters at this
stage).
There
is also an attempt to force digital intermediaries to pay
royalties, namely those platforms that benefit from exposure of
unauthorised, copyright protected materials uploaded by users
(so-called “user generated content” or UGC: prominent examples
include music videos on YouTube, or images on Facebook). This
proposed intervention has been labelled variously as blatantly
anti-American, a general monitoring obligation,
a jealousy tax and
an innovation own goal,
making it harder for European digital start-ups to compete.
Other
proposed measures aim to channel revenues to press publishers
(by giving them new rights – critiqued here), increase
transparency in copyright related payments to artists, foster
digitisation of cultural heritage, facilitate access for the
visually impaired, and legitimise big data practices (such as
text and data mining).
This
lecture will investigate what a digital single market means in
an interconnected world in which copyright still slices content
by territory, and where the balance between artists, investors
and users still reflects an analogue world of linear
exploitation.
Finally,
the lecture turns to Brexit. Can the UK become a digital Island?
The
public lecture is free and open to everyone. Registration secures
a seat.
The Humanities
Lecture Theatre (Room 255 in the
University of Glasgow Main Building off the West Quadrangle)
will form a striking setting for this event. It is
the University’s only lecture theatre preserved in its original
Victorian wooden amphitheatre layout. In the digital world, we
need to take the long view!
Room 255 is accessible from the
‘Foyer to the Forehall’ labelled 256A on this map.
Join
us at CREATe, School of Law, on Wednesday October 19th, at
17:30.
All
the best,
Joy
Joy
Davidson
CREATe
Centre Manager
School
of Law
10
The Square
University
of Glasgow
G12
8QQ
Tel:
+44 (0)141 330 2086
Email:
joy.davidson@glasgow.ac.uk
Website: http://www.create.ac.uk
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
-- Dr. Thomas Margoni Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law Director of the LLM in Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy School of Law - CREATe Centre University of Glasgow http://ssrn.com/author=1383303