Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law

Seminar Programme for 2012-2013

Audio recordings of most of these events are available on Captivate (and most popular podcast apps) or Apple Podcasts/iTunes.

Easter Term
Date	Speaker	Title	Recording
2 May 2013	Yahong Li Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Law, University of Hong Kong	"Changes in Chinese Patent Law and the Impact on Innovation in China"
2 May 2013	Justin Turner QC Barrister, 3 New Square	"Do We Need Patents for Embryonic Stem Cells?"
9 May 2013	Christopher Marsden Professor of Law, University of Sussex Ian Brown Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute	"Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age"
21 May 2013	Rajeev Sachdev Ph.D researcher at Maastricht University	"Towards an Improved Legal Framework for Trademarks and Copyrights in Social Media and Mobile Apps: Web 2.0 Legal Lessons from the Silicon Valley"
30 May 2013	Tim Wu Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School	"Net Neutrality and Freedom of Speech"
Lent Term
Date	Speaker	Title	Recording
14 February 2013	Graeme Dinwoodie Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, University of Oxford	"Mapping Marks and Markets: the Unitary Nature of the CTM"
21 February 2013	Orit Fischman Afori Associate Professor, The Haim Striks School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel	"Fair Use Best Practices for Higher Education Institutions: The Israeli Experience"	Not recorded
28 February 2013	Paul Heald University of Illinois School of Law	"Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain? Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension"
Michaelmas Term
Date	Speaker	Title	Recording
15 November 2012	Amelia Andersdotter Member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party in Sweden Benjamin White Head of Intellectual Property, the British Library	"Pirates, Libraries and the Quest for Copyright Reform"
30 November 2012	Petroula Vantsiouri Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge	"The Justifications Behind the Legal Protection of Self-help Mechanisms"

For further information about the seminars, please email: cipil@law.cam.ac.uk