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Wharton-SMU Research Center
In-House Seminar
Guest Speaker:
Dan HUNTER
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Date & Venue:
Date: 28 July 2004, Wednesday
Time: 4.00pm-5.00pm
Venue: Eu Tong Sen, Level 1, Seminar Room 1,
Singapore Management University
469 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259756
(Location Map)
Topic:
Amateur-To-Amateur
About the Seminar:
Copyright exists for the socially-beneficial purpose of encouraging creativity by providing the means of moving creative content from creator to user. In order to understand how this process works, we posit a model of the functions necessary in this creator-user movement. In this model, centralized commercial control has until recently been the driving force behind copyright’s significance. However, all of the functions inherent in copyright – creation, selection, production, dissemination, promotion, sale, and use – are currently undergoing revolutionary decentralization and disintermediation. Different aspects of information technology, notably the digitization of content, widespread computer ownership, the rise of the internet, and the development of social software, threaten content owners’ central control over every one of copyright’s functions. These functions are now in the hands of individuals. Since copyright law is structured around central control and this structure no longer applies, we examine the normative implications for copyright law in the post-imperial era. Most notably we conclude that copyright’s basic social role needs to be changed in order to recognize the opportunity and desirability of decentralized content, and the expanded marketplace of ideas it promises.
Chairperson:
Mary Wong
Associate Professor of Law, School of Business, Singapore Management University
Registration:
This seminar is free. Please register early. (Admission on a first-come-first-served basis.)
For registration, please click here (Registration closes on 27 July 2004, Tuesday)
Enquiries:
Ms. Lim Lih Yeng
Email: lylim@smu.edu.sg, Tel: 6822-0197
Ms. Priscilla Cheng
Email: priscillacheng@smu.edu.sg, Tel: 6822-0383
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