External Events 2011-2012

Lionel Bently gave papers at the following conferences and seminars:

  • Collaborative Authorship, McGill University, Montreal, September 2011; ‘Recent Experiences with Copyright Reform in the UK’, Innovation, Information and the Internet, hosted by Google, Dublin, Oct. 2011;
  • Parody and Copyright, Brunel University, December 2011 and University of Oxford, February 2012;
  • Harmonization by Stealth: the ECJ and Copyright, at Ten Years After the EU Directive on Copyright in the Information Society, hosted by CRIDS, IVIR and the European Parliament, Brussels, Jan. 2012;
  • Conversations on Copyright: Seminar, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, March 2012;
  • 20th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference, hosted by Fordham University School of Law, New York, April 2012;
  • Competition Law Association Seminar Series, May 2012. Trade Marks and the Public Interest, hosted by ERA (Academy of European Law), Alicante, May 2012; ‘
  • What is the History of Intellectual Property? at 31st Annual Congress; of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, August 2012;
  • Economic Rights at A Century of Dutch Copyright Law 1912-2012, Amsterdam, August 2012.
  • The History of Marks and the Sovereignty of Things at Brand New World: Distinguishing Oneself in the Global Flow, UC Davis Law Review 2012 Symposium, University of California,Davis October 4-5, 2012.

He also participated in the following workshops and roundtables: ‘Flexibilities in Copyright’, University of Amsterdam and American University, Amsterdam, December 2011; First Trade Mark Scholars Round Table, University of Oxford, March 2012; Fourth Trademark Scholars Roundtable, DePaul University, Chicago, April 2012; ‘Formalities and Copyright’, Berkeley/University of Amsterdam, April 2012

Elena Cooper presented her research at the following conferences: Trends in Authorship: Empirical Studies and Legal Implications, hosted by the Institute of Information Law (IVIR), Amsterdam, Dec. 2011; Society of Legal Scholars' Conference, Sept. 2011; Workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, hosted by Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, July 2011; British Legal History Conference, July 2011.

Patricia Vantsiouri presented a paper and co-chaired a discussion session at the 5th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics 2012, in Corfu, Greece, June 2012.