Events in Cambridge 2007

Conference:

Breach of Confidence and Trade Secrets:
Domestic Developments and Comparative Perspectives
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law
17th March 2007, 9.30 am - 5.30 pm

Trade secrets are important intellectual assets, yet, they receive remarkably little attention.  Instead, attention has been focused on copyright, patent, trade marks, privacy and data protection.  This one-day conference aimed to refocus attention on the state of the English law protecting trade secrets, to review significant changes directly or indirectly affecting the legal protection of trade secrets, and to think about how it might develop in the future.

This conference was sponsored by the Centre of European Law, King's College London.  It was accredited by the Law Society and the Bar Council with 6 CPD hours.

Meetings:

The Wittem Project: Plenary meeting on Authorship and Ownership
Upper Hall, Emmanuel College
20th April 2007, 9.30 am - 5.30 pm

 Members of the Whittem Group taking a break from their meeting at Emmanuel College

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) AHRC Resource Enhancement
Upper Hall, Emmanuel College
18th -19th May 2007

Meeting of the five national editors

Lecture:

Taxonomic Property: Intellectual Property and Plants (Second Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture at Emmanuel College)
Queen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
15th May 2007, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Speaker: Professor Brad Sherman Director Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.

Brad Sherman is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at The University of Queensland. He is also Director of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture. Previously Professor Sherman worked at Griffith University, the London School of Economics, and Cambridge University. Brad is currently working on a history of intellectual property and nature. The lecture was published in the Cambridge Law Journal and is available to download here.

Workshop:

Inspiration, Interpretation or Infringement? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Creativity and Copyright
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
4th July 2007 9.30 am -5.30 pm

An interdisciplinary workshop examing the nature of the pirate and the meanings of piracy. The following themes were explored and discussed: ● How is ‘piracy’ as an activity understood? ● What is the social construction of the pirate and how has it changed? ● Should (or can) piracy be seen as a crime/a deviant act/a creative act? ● Should pirates similarly be viewed as social outcasts, criminals, creative people, socially (fair use) and economically beneficial? Does this change depending upon who does the act?