Festival of Creativity and Free Culture

October 26 to 29, 2005

Festival Programme

We reserve the right to change the programme.

ADMISSION FREE! The tickets for the events, marked with grey in the table above, need to be reserved in advance at zoja@creativecommons.si, subject: »RESERVATION name of the event«. Tickets for the Legal Seminar need to be reserved at maja.lubarda@ipi.si with the subject: »RESERVATION Legal Seminar«.

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The international legal seminar
»Copyright Regime in the Age of Digital Technologies«

Friday, October 28, 2005 | Cankarjev dom Cultural & Congress Centre/Štihova Hall

Seminar Programme

• 09.00 – 09.50
  Registration
• 10.00 – 10.15
  Opening Session, Maja Bogataj Jančič, director of the Intellectual Property Institute, Project Lead CC Slovenia
• 10.15 – 11.15
  Participatory Culture and the Future of Information Law, Prof. Urs Gasser, University of St. Gallen
• 11.15 – 12.15
  Should Copyright Include the Exclusive Right to Copy?, Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School
• 12.15 – 13.15
  Creative Commons and Authors’ Rights: Les extrèmes se touchent, Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz, IVIR, University of Amsterdam
• 13.15 – 14.00
  Lunch Break
• 14.00 – 14.45
  OECD and Digital Content: Lessons Learnt So Far, Dr. Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, OECD, (videoconference)
• 14.45 – 15.30
  Prof. Charless Nesson, Harvard Law School, (videoconference)
• 15. 30 – 16.00
  Closing Session, Maja Bogataj Jančič

ADMISSION FREE! Tickets need to be reserved at maja.lubarda@ipi.si with the subject: »RESERVATION Legal Seminar«. Seminar language: English. We reserve the right to change the programme. Organized by “Intellectual Property Institute”http://www.intellectualpropertyinstitute.si.

For more information contact:
Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M., Project Lead CC Slovenija, Intellectual Property Institute
e-mail: maja@intellectualpropertyinstitute.si
phone: +386/1/251-11-77, +386/41/733-625

Lecturers

Professor Lawrence Lessig, B.A. in economics and B.S. in management (University of Pennsylvania), M.A. in philosophy (Cambridge), J.D. (Yale), is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award. Lawrence Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge.

Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, doctorate (cum laude) 1989 (University of Amsterdam), is Legal Project Lead of Creative Commons in the Netherlands. He is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches courses in copyright law, industrial property law and international copyright law. He also teaches at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (Munich). From 1990 to 1998 Bernt Hugenholtz was a member of the Amsterdam Bar and partner of Stibbe (law firm). He has been on several international missions representing the World Intellectual Property Organization, and has consulted extensively with the European Commission, the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands and various private firms. Bernt Hugenholtz has written numerous books, studies and articles on topics involving copyright and information technology. He is General Editor of the Information Law Series, published by Kluwer Law International.

Dr. Urs Gasser, S.J.D. 2001, J.D. 1997 (both University of St. Gallen), LL.M. 2003 (Harvard Law School), is an associate professor of law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), where he serves as the director of the Research Center for Information Law. Before joining the St. Gallen faculty, Urs spent three years as a research and teaching fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he has recently been appointed Faculty Fellow. Urs is a registered Attorney-at-Law in Switzerland, and has published and edited, respectively, six books and has written over 40 articles in books, law reviews, and professional journals.

Professor Charles R. Nesson, A.B. 1960 (Harvard College), J.D. 1963 (Harvard Law School), is a William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, founder and director of Berkman Center for Internet & Society He joined Harvard Law School Faculty in 1966 and was an Associate Dean from 1979 – 1982. Professor Nesson has participated in cases of national interest throughout his career. He was an organizer of the Lawyer’s Military Defense Committee, which provided counsel to servicemen during the Vietnam War, and was counsel in prominent cases related to the war. Professor Nesson pioneered the use of technology in teaching at Harvard Law School, and has appeared in many of PBS’, CBS’ and Granada (U.K) Television’s most acclaimed non-fiction series.

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent is a scholar at the Swiss National Science Foundation and economist at the OECD”s Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) Division. He is a consultant to the German Parliament, the World Bank, and the OECD on matters relating to information technology, trade (especially the GATS), and innovation issues. He has also worked for the International Trade Center (UNCTAD/WTO). Between 1996 and 2000, he was a German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and a fellow at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, University of Maastricht.

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