Synopsis
In a much-publicized speech in July 2014, Neelie Kroes, former Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, argued that “today, the EU copyright framework is fragmented, inflexible, and often irrelevant”. In fact, European copyright rules have been the subject of intensive discussion and criticism over the last decade.
In the absence of clear responses provided by the EU legislature to current challenges of copyright law, the Court of Justice of the European Union has frequently been required to fill the gaps, trying with the limited tools available to adapt copyright to new circumstances. In response and after years of hesitation, the European Commission has finally put copyright reform among its top priorities and in December 2015 published a proposal for a regulation on the cross-border portability of online content services together with an ambitious communication entitled “Toward a modern, more European copyright framework”.
Further legislative proposals have been announced for 2016 aimed at increasing online access to works across the European Union, and addressing selected limitations and exceptions, alongside non-legislative initiatives in relation to, inter alia, the enforcement of copyright. This seminar will discuss the impact of the current reform process on the legal framework for copyright in the EU. More generally, it will consider whether the proposals are capable of meeting the needs of a truly modern information society.
Speaker's Profile
Christophe Geiger is Professor of Law, Director General and Director of the Research Department of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg (France). In addition, he is an affiliated senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) as well as Spangenberg Fellow at the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland (US). He specializes in national, European, international and comparative intellectual property law, acts as external expert for the European Parliament and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), has drafted reports on IP for the European and international institutions and taught as visiting professor in several universities. He is also General Editor of the Collection of the CEIPI published by LexisNexis, co-editor of the EIPIN series published by Edward Elgar, co-editor of the CEIPI-ICTSD Publication Series on “Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System” and member of the editorial board of several journals on IP law. He has published numerous articles as well as authored and edited many volumes in this field, the most recent being “Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property: A Handbook of Contemporary Research” (2012), “Constructing European Intellectual Property: Achievements and New Perspectives” (2013), “Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property” (2015) by Edward Elgar, and “What Patent Law for the European Union?” (2013), “The Contribution of Case Law to the Construction of Intellectual Property in Europe” (2013, in French); “Intellectual Property Law in a Globalized World” (with Caroline Rodà, 2014), “The Intellectual Property System in a Time of Change: European and International Perspectives” (2016), by LexisNexis.
Programme
9.45am - Registration and refreshments
10.00am – Seminar commence
12.00pm – End of Event
Public CPD Points - 2 points
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Last updated on 19 Sep 2016 .
