The Information Society Project Lunch Speaker Series welcomes:
Bernt Hugenholtz
Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of
the Institute for Information Law
University of Amsterdam
who will be presenting
Towards an international instrument on limitations and exceptions
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
12:10p - 1:30p
Yale Law School
Room 120
Lunch and presentation to be followed by Q&A
Abstract:
This paper examines policy options and modalities for framing an international instrument on limitations and exceptions to copyright within the treaty obligations of the current international copyright system. We consider and evaluate options for the design of such an instrument, including questions of political sustainability and institutional home. Part I sketches the rationale for a multilateral approach to the question of L&E’s. Part II explores flexibilities inside the international copyright acquis. Part III evaluates the benefits and costs of alternative frameworks for a possible instrument. Finally, part IV sets out the basic contours of a multilateral instrument on L&E’s.
Supporting report is available at http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/hugenholtz/finalreport2008.pdf
Biography:
Bernt Hugenholtz is
Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of
the Institute for Information Law of the University of
Amsterdam (IViR). In 1989 he received his doctor’s
degree *** laude from the University of
Amsterdam, where he defended his thesis on copyright
protection of works of facts. He has written numerous
books, studies and articles on a variety of topics
involving copyright, information technology, new media
and the Internet. At the University of Amsterdam he
teaches courses in copyright law, international
copyright law and industrial property law. He was a
member of the Amsterdam Bar and partner of the law firm
Stibbe between 1990 and 1998. Since 2003 he has been a
deputy judge at the Court of Appeal in Arnhem.
Prof. Hugenholtz is a member of the Dutch Copyright
Committee that advises the Minister of Justice of the
Netherlands, and has acted as a consultant to the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the European
Commission, and several national governments. He has
been on international missions representing WIPO in
China and Indonesia, and is a regular speaker at
international conferences.
Prof. Hugenholtz is General Editor of the Information
Law Series,which is published by
Kluwer Law International. In 2001 he was elected a
finalist in the Law category of the World Technology
Awards http://www.nature.com/nature/wta/
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Microsoft Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
e: michael.zimmer@yale.edu
w: http://michaelzimmer.org