An initial list of authors and presentations for the COUNTER workshop Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content has been announced. The two-day workshop, Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content, will take place at Uppsala University in Sweden on May 13th-14th, 2009.
A preliminary programme in now available.
The event will be the first organised by the European research project COUNTER which explores the socio-economic and cultural impacts of the consumption of counterfeit goods and will bring together COUNTER researchers with scholars and stakeholders to explore the current state and dilemmas surrounding copyright and the production, consumption and distribution of culture.
Presentations will include:
- Trudy Barber, University of Portsmouth
“A cauldron of creativity: Outcomes from the University of Portsmouth Event.”
- Finola Kerrigan, King’s College London
“Revisiting the Role of Critical Reviews in Film Marketing”
- Puneet Kishor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Public Policy” or Mashing-Up Law and Technology”
- Marina Markellou, University of Montpellier
“From Copyright to Copyleft and from Copyleft to Copywrong, or, ‘If Hitler Would Be Happy How Happy Would We Be?’ Evaluating the Practice of the Artistic ‘Appropriation’ and Its Legal Impact"
- Potdar, Ashutoh, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore
“Urban Middle Class and User-Generated Content”
- Sigrid Quack & Leonard Dobusch, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
“The Copyright Dispute: A Transnational Regulatory Struggle”
- Christine Riefa, Brunel Law School
“Fighting Counterfeits on Online Auction Sites: Have IP Owners Lost a Battle But Not the War?”
- Thanos K. Tsingos, Univertsity of Essex
“User-Generated Content and Intellectual Property Rights: Rules Governing Internet Service Providers Liability in Europe and USA”
- Andres Guadamuz, University of Edinburgh
“If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Placing User-Generated Content in Context of Commercial Copyright Policy”
