Peter Jaszi Lecture: Bernt Hugenholtz on Flexing Authors' Rights

American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property  Presents The 2nd Annual Peter Jaszi Distinguished Lecture: Professor Bernt Hugenholtz - Flexing Authors' Rights   November 7, 2013 | Room 603 5:30 Reception | 6:15 Lecture | 7:30 Dinner Reception American University Washington College of Law For registration, CLE and live/on-demand webcast: http://www.pijip.org/events/2013jaszilecture/

 

Prof. Hugenholtz: Flexing Authors' Rights   The global future of cultural institutions, information industries, and individual creative work hinges, in part, on present decisions about the scope and character of copyright exceptions and limitations. Almost everyone agrees that modern copyright law needs to be flexible in order to accommodate rapid technological change and evolving media uses. In the United States fair use is the flexible instrument of choice. Author's rights systems in Europe are generally deemed to be less flexible and less tolerant to open-ended limitations and exceptions. But are they really?    This lecture makes the case that (1) author’s rights systems can be made as flexible as common law copyright systems, and (2) that the existing EU legal framework does not preclude the development of flexible norms at the national level.

Professor Bernt Hugenholtz   Bernt Hugenholtz is Professor of law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a professor at the University of Bergen (Norway), and regularly teaches at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (Munich), Monash University (Melbourne) and Charles University (Prague). He is the co-author, with Prof. Paul Goldstein (Stanford University), of International Copyright. Principles, Law, and Practice (Oxford University Press, 3nd ed. 2012), and has written extensively on a range of copyright-related issues. He has acted as an advisor to the World Intellectual Property Organization, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Netherlands Ministry of Justice. Prof. Hugenholtz is widely regarded as the foremost expert on copyright in the EU. He was a member of the Drafting Committee of the Wittem Project, a collaboration between copyright scholars across Europe that produced the ground-breaking model "European Copyright Code" in 2010. With Ian Hargreaves, he authored the 2013 Lisbon Council policy brief on "Copyright Reform for Growth and Jobs: Modernising the European CopyrightFramework." Recent publications are available at http://www.ivir.nl/staff/hugenholtz.html.

 

The Peter Jaszi Distinguished Lecture in Intellectual Property   The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property's Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property Law is named in recognition of the extraordinary ongoing contributions of Professor Peter Jaszi to the study of intellectual property at American University Washington College of Law and in the world at large, and in particular for his lasting contributions to the elevation of the public interest in intellectual property discourse.   Support the Lecture: Supporters may make a pledge at wcl.american.edu/go/give, and designate their gift to the lecture by using the “Other” field. Checks mailed to the Development Office should include “Peter Jaszi Lecture” in the memo line.