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ALAI 2001 Congress
Adjuncts and Alternatives to Copyright
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LISE BERTRAND
Lise Bertrand graduated from the University of Montreal (LL.L.) in 1978 and from the University of British Columbia (LL.B.) in 1994. She has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1979 and became a member of the Law Society of British Columbia in 1994.
In December 1995, Lise established the Intellectual Property and Information Technology law section at Stikeman Elliott where she was a partner. Prior to that date, she was a partner at Martineau, Walker where she practised exclusively in the Intellectual Property and Information Technology areas from 1982 to 1994.
Lise Bertrand has joined the Law Department of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , in October 2000, as Senior Legal Counsel responsible for Intellectual Property and Information Technology.
June M. Besek is the Director of Studies at the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School. Prior to going to Columbia, she was Director of Intellectual Property at Reuters America Inc., where her work focused on copyright, trademark, and other legal issues concerning databases, software and the Internet. Prior to joining Reuters, she was a partner at Schwab Goldberg Price & Dannay in New York.
She is an active member of the ABA Intellectual Property Section, where she co-chairs the Committee on Long-Range Planning and is a former chair of the Copyright Division. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. She is a frequent speaker on copyright issues, and has taught copyright law and trademark law as an Adjunct Professor at Pace Law School.
She earned her J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she was elected to Order of the Coif, and her B.A. cum laude from Yale University.
Jon Bing (born Tønsberg, Norway 1944), cand jur (Oslo) 1969, dr juris (Oslo) 1982, dr juris hon causae (Stockholm and Copenhagen), Visiting Professor, King's College (London) 1997. Professor and Chair, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, a department of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Doctoral thesis on legal information systems and communication processes. In addition main areas of research data protection, intellectual property law and international private law, all related to information technology. Numerous publication, national and international.
Offices include chair Council of Europe Committee on Legal Data Processing, Chair Norwegian Film Council, Chair Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs, member Board of Governors, European Cultural Foundation (current), member Legal Advisory Board, Information Society Directorate General (current), chair Data Protection Tribunal etc.
First fiction 1967 (with Tor Åge Bringsværd), since then published novels, short-stories, plays for stage, radio and television, edited more than 20 anthologies, translations, essays, etc.
Mr. Jørgen Blomqvist, a national of Denmark, is Director, Copyright Law Division, of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He holds the degrees of Master of Laws and Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen.
Before joining WIPO he has been Head of Section in the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, and Legal Counsel and Assistant General Manager of KODA, the Danish Performing Rights Society.
In 1992, he joined the International Bureau of WIPO as Senior Legal Officer and since then he has been Head, Copyright Information Section, and Head, Copyright (National Legislation) Section. His present responsibilities as Director of the Copyright Law Division include WIPO's activities regarding progressive development of international copyright and related rights, questions relating to collective management of copyright and related rights, and questions relating to licensing and transfer of copyright and related rights.
He has published a thesis on Transfer of Copyright Ownership and several articles on various issues relating to copyright and related rights.
Bob Bolick is Vice-President and Director of New Business Development for McGraw-Hill Professional, where his primary responsibilities are acquisitions, McGraw-Hill's Ebooks Project, and McGraw-Hill Professional's Web site.
McGraw-Hill's Ebooks Project provides a focal point for the McGraw-Hill exploration of ebook formats, versioning, digital rights management, and Web-publishing strategies. McGraw-Hill Professional has established numerous ebook partnerships and relationships – NetLibrary, Ebrary, Adobe, Glassbook, ibooks.com, PeanutPress, Contentville, MightyWords, and others – as well as its own McGraw-Hill eBookstore, powered by Reciprocal and ContentGuard.
Prior to joining McGraw-Hill, Bob held management positions at FT Knowledge (formerly FT Management), The Stationery Office (formerly Her Majesty's Stationery Office), and International Thomson Publishing. Prior to that, he held editorial positions with Simon & Schuster International, MIT Press, and the Industrial Research Unit at The Wharton School.
Currently, Bob represents McGraw-Hill to the Open Ebook Forum (OEBF) and the International Digital Object Identifier Foundation (IDF), for which he is the Treasurer. He was chairman of the Numbering Working Group on the AAP's Task Force for Ebook Standards and vice-chairman of the OEBF's DRM Working Group. He is currently chairman of the OEBF's Requirements Working Group.
Born in Burlington, NC, in 1952, Bob attended Davidson College and did his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies is a global information services provider serving the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, Business Week and McGraw-Hill Education. The corporation has more than 400 offices in 32 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com
Christophe Caron, born in 1970, is Professor agrégé of the Faculties of Law since 1999. He's teaching Intellectual Property Law and Civil Law in the Faculty of Law of Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) and in Paris. He published his thesis on the subject « Abuse of right and copyright » in 1998 and is now working to the writing of a « Treaty of Intellectual Property Law ». He is also the author of several articles and cases commentaries about copyright law and publishes monthly his chronicle of « Intellectual Property Law » in the French revue « Communication – Commerce électronique ». He has been a speaker in several law meeting in France as well as in several foreign countries and is a member of the French group of ALAI since 1993.
David O. Carson is General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. As General Counsel, Mr. Carson is a principal legal officer of the Office, with responsibility for the Office's regulatory activities, litigation, administration of the copyright law, and providing liaison on legal and policty matters between the Office and Congress, the Department of Justice and other agencies of Government, the courts, the legal community, and other interests affected by the copyright law. Prior to joining the Copyright Office in 1997, he was in private practice, representing publishers, authors, motion picture and television production companies, recording artists, composers, record companies, computer software publishers and othersin areas including copyrights, trademarks, defamation, rights of privacy and publicity, and publishing and entertainment contracts. He has written articles and lectured on issues in these fields of law. He is a trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, a former director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and former chair of its Committee on Copyright Law. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in history at Stanford University.
Professor Cornish graduated from Adelaide and Oxford Universities. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn, Queen's Counsel and Fellow of the British Academy. He holds the Herchel Smith Chair of Intellectual Property Law at Cambridge University and is the President of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is also an External Member of the Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Munich and an Editor of the Institute's journal, International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright.
His books include: Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (4th Edition, 1999); Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property (3rd Edition, 1999); The Jury (1968, 1970); (with G de N Clark) Law and Society in England, 1750-1950 (1989).
Jeffrey P. Cunard practices in the areas of intellectual property, information technology and telecommunications. His most recent engagements include advice on a wide range of digital media, copy protection, electronic commerce, including electronic publishing, and other matters relating to the use of the Internet. Mr. Cunard represents companies interested in the availability of music and motion pictures in new digital media, including on-line, and in the development and use of various encryption and watermarking technologies. He also represents providers of on-line services and companies on computer software-related matters, including representation of both vendors and customers in structuring, drafting and disputes involving information technology and other computer software development and licensing arrangements, including outsourcing transactions. In addition, he advises both domestic and foreign telecommunications companies and telecommunications users on regulatory and corporate matters and service arrangements.
Mr. Cunard is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Debevoise & Plimpton, which has its principal office in New York, European offices in Paris, London and Moscow and an office in Hong Kong. He graduated summa cum laude in English and Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1977 and received a J.D. in 1980 from the Yale Law School, where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation from law school, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., in Los Angeles, California. He speaks widely on and is the author of and a contributor to various articles on intellectual property and communications law. He also is a member of the editorial boards of E-Commerce Law & Strategy, where he writes on legal issues relating to computer software and digital technologies, and Cable TV and New Media Law and Finance, for which he authors the monthly "FCC Watch" column.
Mr. Cunard co-authors three chapters, on "Copyright," "Obscenity and Indecency" and "Trademark and Unfair Competition Issues," in Internet and Online Law (K. Stuckey, ed.) (1996-2001), published by Law Journal Seminars-Press. He also authored "Property of the Mind: Software and the Law," for The Future of Software (1995), published by MIT Press, and is a co-author of two books on international communications law, From Telecommunications to Electronic Services (1986) and The Telecom Mosaic (1988), both published by Butterworths. Mr. Cunard currently is working with his partner, Bruce P. Keller, on a forthcoming comprehensive practitioner's guide on U.S. copyright law.
Graeme B. Dinwoodie is a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Dinwoodie joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in August 2000, having spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 1994-2000, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Professor Dinwoodie holds a First Class Honors LL.B. degree in Private Law from the University of Glasgow, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (where he spent 1987-88 as a John F. Kennedy Scholar and was an Associate Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal), and a J.S.D. from Columbia Law School (where he spent 1988-89 as the Burton Fellow in residence at Columbia Law School, working in the field of intellectual property law). Prior to teaching, Professor Dinwoodie spent five years with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and various federal courts including the United States Supreme Court. Professor Dinwoodie has presented papers on copyright, trademark, design protection, and internet law at a number of conferences and colloquia. His articles have appeared in several leading laws reviews, and his casebook on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (with Shira Perlmutter and Bill Hennessey) will be published by Lexis-Nexis Publishing later this year. He teaches courses in Copyright Law, Trademark Law, International Intellectual Property Law, Conflict of Laws and Civil Procedure.
Rochelle Dreyfuss received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1968 and her M.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. After spending several years as a research chemist at Vanderbilt University Medical School, Albert Einstein Medical School, and the Ciba Geigy Corporation, she entered Columbia University Law School, where she served as Articles and Book Review Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Graduating in 1981, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. She has taught at N.Y.U. Law School since 1983 and has visited at the University of Chicago Law School, Santa Clara University Law School, and the University of Washington School of Law (Seattle). She has been a member of the New York City Bar Association (Science and Law and Patent Law committees), the American Law Institute (Unfair Competition and Complex Litigation projects), and BNA's Advisory Board to USPQ. She was a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee and to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents. She is a past-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Association of Law Schools and past-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. Professor Dreyfuss's research and teaching interests include intellectual property, privacy, the relationship between science and law, and civil procedure. In the intellectual property area, her articles include: Expressive Genericity: Trademarks as Language in the Pepsi Generation, 65 Notre Dame L. Rev. 397 (1990); A Wiseguy's Approach to Information Products: Muscling Copyright and Patent Law into A Unified Theory of Intellectual Property, 1992 S. Ct. Rev. 195 (1992); We Are Symbols and Inhabit Symbols, So Should We Be Paying Rent? Deconstructing the Lanham Act and Rights of Publicity, 20 Colum.-VLA J. L. & the Arts 123 (1996); Two Achievements of the Uruguay Round: Putting TRIPS and Dispute Settlement Together, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 275 (1997)(with A. Lowenfeld); Are Business Method Patents Bad for Business?16 Santa Clara Comp. & High Tech. L. J. 264 (2000); UCITA in the International Marketplace: Are We About to Export Bad Innovation Policy, 26 Bkl'yn J. Int'l L. 49 (2000); and Collaborative Research: Conflicts on Authorship, Ownership, and Accountability, 53 Vand. L. Rev. 1161 (2000). She has also co-authored casebooks on civil procedure and intellectual property law.
Séverine Dusollier has a Law degree and is Head of the IPR department at the CRID (Center of Research in Computer law attached to the University of Namur, Belgium). She has been involved, as legal consultant, in the COPEARMS project on Electronic Copyright Management Systems and in the ECLIP Project where five European universities deal with the legal issues of e-commerce, both funded by the European Commission. Séverine Dusollier is preparing a doctoral thesis on the "Technical means of copyright protection" and has drafted, with Alain Strowel, a report for the WIPO on the legal protection of technological measures in 1999. She has also written legal reports for the UNESCO and Council of Europe on copyright matters. In the Faculty of Law, she is in charge of distance education activities and provide a distance learning course on legal issues of the Information Society in a post-graduate program. She has published several articles on electronic commerce and on copyright matters, some of them could be found at: http://www.droit.fundp.ac.be/crid/proprintel/default.htm
Michael A. Einhorn received a B.A. in economics from Dartmouth College in 1974 and a Ph.D in economics from Yale University in 1981. He is now a Research Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University, a Visiting Professor of Economics at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, and a testifying economist. Dr. Einhorn's academic and professional interests have included applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and regulation. With a present interest in intellectual property and the music industry, recent professional work includes research into Napster, MP3.com, the DVD Case, the new ASCAP Consent Decree, and Internet television.
Anne-Virginie Gaide received her law degree from the University of Lausanne Law School (Switzerland). She then spent a year at the Cornell Law School (USA), where she obtained a Master of Laws. Upon her return, she wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on « the copyright protection of fictional characters », published in 1998. In September 1998, she joined the intellectual property department of the law firm B.M.G. Avocats in Geneva (Switzerland), where she specializes in trademark and copyright law.
Nic Garnett is the Senior Vice President, Trust Utility, InterTrust Technologies in Santa Clara, California. He is responsible for developing and enforcing the standards and specifications governing the deployment of InterTrust's Digital Rights Management technology platform. He is also responsible for defining the company's policies in relation to the regulation of e-commerce on a global basis.
Prior to joining InterTrust, Garnett was the Director General of IFPI, the international trade association of the recording industry. He led the first successful industry drive against piracy in many parts of the world, particularly in Asia and Eastern Europe, and directed the recording industry's lobbying work word-wide at regional and inter-governmental level.
Garnett holds degrees in law from Cambridge University and Bordeaux University.
Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina since 1985. She teaches courses in Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law in the law school and Law Librarianship and Legal Resources in the School of Information and Library Science.
She obtained her B.A. and M.L.S. degrees from Texas Woman's University in 1967 and 1968 respectively. Her J.D. degree is from the University of Houston in 1973. Prior to coming to Chapel Hill, she held the same position at the University of Oklahoma from 1975-84 and at the University of Houston from 1973-75.
Lolly is a past president of the American Association of Law
Libraries and is a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association and has served on
and chaired various committees of both associations, including their Copyright
Committees. She served on the American Bar Association's Accreditation Committee
from 1987-95. Lolly represented the AAU at the Fair Use Conferences (for the
National Information Infrastructure). She has written widely on both copyright
and in law library management issues and is a frequent speaker on these issues.
She writes the Copyright Corner for SLA's Information Outlook and also
has a copyright column in Against the Grain. Recent articles and books
on copyright include: Change – the Only Certainty in Copyright, in
THE BOWKER ANNUAL, 194-207 (45th ed. 2000).
Copyright Considerations for Fee-Based Document delivery Services, 10 J.
of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Info. Supply 75-92 (1999).
GROWING PAINS: ADAPTING COPYRIGHT FOR LIBRARIES, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY (1997)
Fair Use for Faculty-created Multimedia, 6 Info. & Comm. Tech. L. 153
(1977)
Librarians and Copyright: A Guide to Copyright in the 1990s with Sarah K. Wiant
(1994).
Daniel J. Gervais is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa (Common Law Section). Mr. Gervais is also Vice-President, International of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.(CCC). CCC is the world's largest reproduction right organization (RRO). CCC also offers a wide range of state-of-the-art rights management services. Prior to joining CCC, Dr. Gervais was Head of the Copyright Projects Section at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Legal Officer at the GATT (World Trade Organization), Director General of the International Video Federation and Assistant Secretary General of the Paris-based International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC). Dr. Gervais, a Canadian lawyer and member of the Montreal Bar, also practiced intellectual property law at a Montreal law firm for several years and is currently Of Counsel at Brouillette, Charpentier, Fortin. Dr. Gervais holds a Doctor of Laws degree magna cum laude from Nantes University (France), a Diploma in International Copyright Law magna cum laude from the Graduate Institute of Advanced International Studies (Geneva), a Masters (LL.M.) from the University of Montreal, as well as a Bachelor of Laws degree from the same university. Dr. Gervais speaks French, English, Spanish and German. Dr. Gervais is also the author of many articles, two books and several book chapters on copyright law and management, published in six different languages.
Lewis E. Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice Provost at Columbia University. Among his responsibilities are the formulation and implementation of strategies to ensure the continued pre-eminence of Columbia's research and teaching enterprises. In addition to overseeing the design and management of new and existing interdisciplinary programs at Columbia, he plays an active management role in the Columbia Earth Institute. The Earth Institute is the largest of Columbia's strategic initiatives and has as its mission the development of new knowledge toward the sustainability of the relationship between humans and our planet and the exploration of the best institutional structures for that knowledge development.
Gilbert received his Ph.D. in tectonophysics in 1993 at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, and currently holds an adjunct professor position in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He also holds an MS in geophysics from North Carolina State University and a BA in geology from Oberlin College. Beyond his activities at Columbia, he serves on various planning committees related to the advancement of interdisciplinary science.
Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, has been a member of the Columbia Law School faculty since 1987. She teaches Legal Methods, Copyright Law, and Trademarks Law, and is the author or co-author of casebooks in all three subjects. Recent lectures and articles on domestic and international copyright subjects have explored the legal implications of electronic creation and distribution of works of authorship. Professor Ginsburg has taught French and U.S. copyright law and U.S. legal methods and contracts law at the University of Paris and other French universities. A graduate of the University of Chicago (BA 1976, MA 1977), she received a JD in 1980 from Harvard, and a Diplôme d'études approfondies in 1985 and a Doctorate of Law in 1995 from the University of Paris II.
Paul Goldstein is the Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford University and is widely recognized as one of the country's leading authorities on intellectual property. He is the author of a four-volume treatise on copyright law as well as of a widely-adopted law school text on intellectual property. He is the author of five other books, including the widely-reviewed Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox. In April 1997, Newsweek magazine named Professor Goldstein to its "list of 100 people for the new century," as one "whose creativity or talent or brains or leadership will make a difference in the years ahead." He has regularly been included in Best Lawyers in America.
Professor Goldstein is a member of the Bars of New York and California and is Of Counsel to the law firm of Morrison & Foerster. He frequently testifies before congressional committees dealing with intellectual property issues and has been an invited expert at international governmental meetings on copyright issues. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich, Germany.
Thomas Hoeren, Dr. iur., Lic. theol., studied law and theology at the universities of Münster, Tübingen and London.He is working as a civil law professor at the University of Münster (Germany). Head of the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law/ITM (Münster). Judge at the Copyright Senate of the Court of Appeal in Düsseldorf. Legal adviser of the European Commission; coordinator of several mayor EU projects including the European research network on e-commerce and law (ECLIP). Member of the UNCITRAL Expert Group on E-contracting.
Kamiel Koelman is a fellow researcher at the Institue for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (www.ivir.nl). His main field of research is on the intersection of technology and law, particularly copyright law. He has published on issues such as ownership of electronic rights, multimedia licensing, online intermediary liability, open source software, hyperlinking, privacy in digital rights management systems and the protection of technological measures. He is a member of the Dutch Copyright Society's Committees ‘Copyright in the Information Society' and ‘Access Right?'.
Naoki Koizumi is Professor of Law at Sophia University Faculty of Law,Tokyo. Born in 1961, he graduated from University of Tokyo Faculty of Law(LL.B), and has been visiting scholar at Stanford Law School (1989-91); visiting Professor at Unversity of Washington School of Law (1993); visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich (1997-8). He serves as Member of Industrial Property Council of Japanese Government; Member of Copyright Council of Japanese Government; Member of Telecommunication and Telegraph Council of Japanese Government .
Mrs. Tarja Koskinen-Olsson (a national of Finland) is the Chief Executive Officer of KOPIOSTO, the Joint Finnish Copyright Organisation which groups together 43 members' associations.
Between the years 1993 and 1999 she functioned as Chair of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO).
She has recently co-ordinated two projects partly funded by the European Union (DG XIII) under the INFO2000 Programme: VERDI (Very Extensive Rights Data Information) and INDECS (Interoperability of Data in E-Commerce Systems).
Annette KUR, born 1950, graduated from Munich University in 1973, doctor degree in 1980. Since 1976 research fellow, since 1980 head of section (Scandinavian and Baltic countries) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Unfair Competition Law. Lecturer at Munich University and at the Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki (Finland).
Member of AIPPI and ALAI, treasurer of ATRIP (Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Reasearch in Intellectual Property). Author of books and various articles in the field of trademark, unfair competition, and industrial design law.
François Lajeunesse is senior legal counsel for Bell Canada, in the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Group. As such, he provides legal support in that field in relation to all services offered by the company, including wired and wireless voice and data communications, high speed and wireless Internet access, IP-broadband services, e-business solutions, local and long distance phone and directory services. Bell Canada is majority owned by BCE Inc of Montréal, which is Canada's largest communications company. Prior to joining Bell Canada, Mr. Lajeunesse was a lawyer in the Intellectual Property and Communications Law group of the national law firm Martineau Walker, now known as Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, from 1989 to 1994. He then acted as legal counsel for Société de radio-télévision du Québec, now Télé-Québec, a public educational television in Québec, from 1994 to 1996, after which he acted as legal counsel for the Information Highway Secretariat of Québec, from 1996 to 1998, where he participated in the preparation of Québec's strategy for the deployment of the information highway. Mr. Lajeunesse is a member of Québec's Bar since 1989.
Jessica Litman is Professor of Law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she teaches courses in copyright law, Internet law, and trademarks and unfair competition. She is the author of the recently published book Digital Copyright (Prometheus Books 2001) and of many articles on intellectual property, and co-authored a casebook on Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin. Professor Litman has testified before Congress and before the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force's Working Group on Intellectual Property. She is a past trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and a past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. She has served on the program committee for the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. She is an Academic Advisor to the American Committee on Interoperable Systems, and a member of the Intellectual Property and Internet Committee of the ACLU, and the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts.
Roland Louski has law degree from the Université de Liège (Belgium). Specialised in European Law, he worked for seven years as legal counsel of the European Newspaper Publisher's Association, a EU trade organisation aimed at protecting the interests of EU newspaper publishers. In Augustus 2001, he joined Info2clear, a pan-European online copyright clearing house company, as VP Legal practices. His IPR expertise gained during his previous position, was put at the disposal of Info2clear to fine-tune from a copyright perspective the offer of services.
IFPI's Legal Policy Department works to establish and improve the legal framework in which the record industry operates. This includes copyright laws as well as other areas of legislation, in particular those with a direct impact on the development of electronic commerce. The Legal Policy Department formulates strategies for advising and lobbying legislative bodies, national governments and international agencies.
Prior to joining IFPI, Ms Martin-Prat worked at the Commission of the European Community in the electronic commerce and copyright areas as well as in the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament.
Ms Martin-Prat obtained her degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville in Spain, and is a member of the Bar in Spain. She has also obtained two post-graduate Diplomas in European Community Law, one from the European Institute of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the other from the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.
David Millman is Managing Director of Technology at Columbia Digital Knowledge Ventures (DKV) and Director of Information Services R&D atColumbia's Academic Information Systems. David directs technology planning and operations for DKV as well as for digital library projects in the Columbia Libraries and for the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC).
His recent work concerns scalable architectures for distributed services and for access control systems which span organizational boundaries.
David has developed and managed Internet-based services since the late 1980's, including public information systems, reference book databases, art museum collections, and electronic scholarly publications. A software developer since 1974, he has taught computer graphics and programming in higher education and in industry. David has been a member of the technical staff at Columbia University since 1980.
Victor Nabhan is a former professor of aw at the Law School of Laval University, in Quebec (Canada), specializing in intellectual property. He hasserved as a consultant to the Canadian Federal Government, on matters related to the revision of the opyright law, and also the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Quebec and to Unesco, on various intellectual property issues . He has publications on international as well as Canadian copyright law and been a guest lecturer at a number of universities in Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the Middle East. Since 1996, he has been the President of ALAI (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale) . Mr. Nabhan has been a consultant with WIPO since 1999.
Shira Perlmutter is Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at AOL Time Warner in New York. She joined the company from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, where she was a consultant on the copyright issues involved in electronic commerce. From 1995 to 1999, she was Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. In that capacity, she advised Congress on, and drafted portions of, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, and was responsible for the preparation of the Copyright Office's 1999 Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education and its 1997 Report on Legal Protection for Databases. In 1996, she was a key member of the U.S. delegation that negotiated the two new WIPO treaties on copyright and related rights, and served as the expert on the copyright law of the United States during the TRIPs Council review of developed countries' copyright laws.
From 1990 to 1995, Ms. Perlmutter was a law professor at The Catholic University of America, teaching Copyright Law, Trademarks and Unfair Competition, and International Intellectual Property Law. She was the copyright consultant to the Clinton Administration's Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure in 1994 and 1995. From 1983 to 1990, she practiced law in New York City, specializing in copyright and trademark counseling and litigation. She has published numerous articles on copyright issues, including the fair use doctrine and the scope of protection for databases under U.S. law.
Ms. Perlmutter received her A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Marybeth Peters became the United States Register of Copyrights August 7, 1994. From 1983-1994 she held the position of Policy Planning Adviser to the Register. She has also served as Acting General Counsel of the Copyright Office and as chief of both the Examining and Information and Reference divisions. Ms. Peters is a frequent speaker on copyright issues; she is the author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976.
Ms. Peters received her undergraduate degree from Rhode Island College and her law degree, with honors, from The George Washington University Law Center. She is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia.
Ms. Peters, is a member of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.,the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, ALAI-USA, the District of Columbia Bar Association, including the Computer Law Section, the DC Computer Law Forum, and the Computer Law Association, currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors.
Ms. Peters, from 1986 thru 1994 was a lecturer in the Communications Law Institute of The Catholic University of America's law school and previously served as adjunct professor of copyright law at The University of Miami School of Law and at The Georgetown University Law Center.
During 1989-1990 Ms. Peters served as a consultant on copyright law to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Antoon Quaedvlieg (1958) studied law in Nijmegen and Poitiers (1981/82). PhD Catholic University of Nijmegen 1987. Thesis Auteursrecht op techniek (copyright on technical subject matter), partly prepared at the Max-Planck-Institut for Patent Law in 2Munich, was awarded the Ruijgrok-prize of the Dutch Society of Sciences in 1989. 1987-1990 lawyer in Amsterdam. 1990 professor of commercial- and economic law in Nijmegen. 1994 member of the National Program Committee Information Technology and Law. Deputy judge in the Court of Appeal of Den Bosch and the District Court of Arnhem.
Sam Ricketson is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne and also practises at the Victorian Bar. Prior to November 2000, he was the Sir Keith Aickin Professor of Commercial Law at Monash University. He has written and published widely in the area of intellectual property.
Ronald S. Rosen is a partner at a Los Angeles firm of Troy & Gould and was admitted to the California bar in 1958. Mr. Rosen's practice focuses on the areas of entertainment, intellectual property and commercial litigation. Education: Stanford University (A.B., cum laude, 1054); London School of Economics, London, England; Stanford Law School (LL.B., 1957). Author: "Litigating Copyright, Trademark and Unfair Competition Cases." Practicing Law institute, 1983-1997; "Contractual Arbitration." 1976, 1982, 1992 and 1994; "Current Trends in Entertainment Litigation; The Insurance Empire Strikes Back," The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, American Bar Association, 1982. Lecture: Practicing Law Institute, 1983-1997; California Continuing Education of the Bar. 1973, 1976, 1982, 1992 and 1994; Georgetown University Law Center, 1984-1998; Stanford Law School, 1986-1993; "Moral Right of Authors." ALAI Antwerp, Belgium, 1993; "Resolving Disputes in Film and Television," International Bar Association, Cannes, France, 1998. Contributing Editor, California Continuing Education of the Bar, California Business Law Reporter, 1984-1990. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California, 1958-1959. Member; Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California; Association Litteraire et Artistique International; Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.
Pierre Sirinelli is a professor at the University of Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne), where he directs the post-graduate program (DESS) devoted to the law of new and digital technologies. Former Dean of the Jean Monnet school (law, economics, management) of the University of Paris XI, he there directs the Center for the study and research in the law of intangibles.
He is a member of the French Conseil Supérieur de la Propriété Littéraire et Artistique (a body charged with undertaking studies and proposing reforms or amendments to the Code of intellectual property), and is President of the French chapter of ALAI.
Selected publications:
- Lamy droit des médias et de la communication (direction de l'ouvrage et co-rédaction)
- Rapport au ministre de la culture «industries culturelles et nouvelles techniques» - La documentation française
- Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle annoté – Dalloz
- Mémento de propriété littéraire et artistique - Dalloz
Alain Strowel graduated in law (1983) and obtained a Ph. D. in law (1992) from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. In addition, he obtained graduate degrees in economics (1984) and philosophy (1985). He serves as a professor at the Saint-Louis University (Brussels), the University of Liège and the Catholic University of Brussels-Leuven, where he teaches mainly copyright and design law.
He is a member of the Brussels Bar since 1988. Prior to joining Covington & Burling in April 2001, he worked in the IP section of NautaDutilh (Brussels) for about 5 years. He has specialised in copyright and IT for about fifteen years.
Elliot Turrini is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, where he is the Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator responsible for various high-tech and intellectual property prosecutions. For the last five years, he has prosecuted cybercrime and intellectual property cases, including David Smith for disseminating the Melissa Virus. He gave the "Future of Cybercrime" presentation at fall COMDEX 2000 in Las Vegas and the "Future of E-crime" presentation at the International Electronic Crimes Conference in Manhattan this February. He is currently editing a computer crime book for Wadsworth Publishing. A native of Long Island, New York, Turrini received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. summa cum laude from Seton Hall Law School. After law school, Turrini served as a law clerk to the Honorable Morton I. Greenberg of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Professor (Hoogleraar) at the Ghent University, Belgium. Courses in Media Law, Copyright Law, International and Comparative Media Law, Politics and Mass Media, Journalism and Ethics in both the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law. Visiting professor at the University of Antwerp (1991-1993) and the University of Brussels (1994-1998). Member of the Federal Commission on access to administrative documents (1994-2001) and member of the Flemish Media Council (1999-2001). Member of the editorial board of Auteurs & Media (Larcier, Brussels). Participation in several projects of the Council of Europe on mass media law and freedom of expression and information. Publications in the field of media law and information law, inter alia : Vrijheid van meningsuiting, racisme en revisionisme (ed., with G.A.I. Schuijt), Ghent, Academia Press, 1995, 236 p. (Freedom of expression, racism and revisionism); "La parodie et les droits moraux. Le droit au respect de l'auteur d'une bande dessinée : un obstacle insurmontable pour la parodie ?", In : X., Droit d'auteur et bande dessinée, Brussels/Paris, Bruylant/LGDJ, 1997, 237-267; "Guaranteeing the freedom and independence of the media". In : X., Media and democracy, Strasbourg, Council of Europe Publ., 1998, 35-59; "La réforme des organes de régulation en communauté flamande". In : F. Jongen (ed.), Le nouveau Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Brussel, Bruylant, 1998, 83-105; "Criticising Judges in Belgium". In : M. Addo (ed.), Freedom of Expression and the Criticism of Judges. A comparative study of European legal standards, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000, 89-111; De vijfminutenregel. Kinderen en televisiereclame, Kluwer 2000 (Legal analysis of the regulation on TV-advertising and minors).
Kate Wittenberg is Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC). Kate serves as project director for the electronic publications Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia Earthscape, and the Gutenberg-e online history project, and is also developing online curriculum projects in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences through Columbia University's recent initiative, Columbia Interactive. Kate's work focuses in particular on the creation of sustainable business plans for digital scholarship and education, digital rights management, collaborative organizational models, online course development models, and the evaluation of use and costs of educational digital resources.
Both EPIC and Columbia Interactive seek to create new organizational and business models for the development of educational resources in the digital environment. We have attempted to create relationships among scholars, technologists, publishers, librarians, and students that move beyond the organizational and disciplinary categories within the traditional university infrastructure.
Plans for future development of these organizations include the creation of online curricular materials appropriate for undergraduates and graduate students, K-12 students and their teachers, as well as the general public and professionals interested in continuing education.
By creating high quality educational materials in direct response to the needs of their creators and users, we plan to develop online resources that effectively integrate teaching, research, and learning in one place. We will be working closely with faculty and students to evaluate the usefulness of these resources in improving both the quality and cost-effectiveness of this new mode of teaching and learning.
Jacques de Werra received his law degree from the University
of Lausanne Law School (Switzerland) in 1993. He started a doctor thesis (Ph.D.)
on the topic of the right of integrity (moral right), while working as a
research assistant at the Center for Business Law (CEDIDAC) of the University of
Lausanne. After having finished his thesis as a visiting scholar at the
Max-Planck Institute in Munich (1996), he practiced law at the Geneva bar,
before taking part to the LL.M. program at Columbia Law School (2000-2001). He
is also co-director of the Geneva Art-Law Center since 1999. Jacques de Werra is
presently working on a research project on the relationship between copyright
and contract supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has
published several articles and has lectured on topics related to copyright law.
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