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.
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.
The preliminary programme – which is subject to change – is outlined below:
WEDNESDAY MAY 13
Venue: University building
Lecture Hall X
14.00-14.15: Welcome by Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Uppsala University
14.15-15.30 KEYNOTE by Professor Niva Elkin-Koren
Director of Haifa Center of Law & Technology, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa:
“Copyright and Its Limits in the Age of User-Generated Content”
15.30-16.00 COFFEE (served outside Lecture Hall IV)
Lecture Hall IV
16.00-17.30 COUNTER Research Presentations:
16.00-16.20 University of Central Lancashire (Coordinators)
Overview of COUNTER
Jo Bryce, Neil Horton
16.30-16.50 Bocconi University
“Managing Intellectual Property in the Web 2.0: A Survey of the Online Management System”
Maria Lillà Montagnini, Maurizio Borghi, Indranath Gupta
17.00-17.20 Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
“Pros and Cons of IP from the Music Industry Perspective”
Elfriede Penz, Eva Hoffman
17.30 The University guide Mikael Norrby will meet us outside the lecture hall and give us a tour of the University Building, the Cathedral and Gustavianum.
19.30 Buffet dinner served at Gustavianum
THURSDAY MAY 14
Venue: Orangeriet
09.00-9.15 Introduction, Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
09.15-09.45 Trudy Barber, Ed Woodroffe, Hilary Cooke
Creative Arts, Film and Media, University of Portsmouth:
“CDPT Mash-up 360. A Cauldron of Creativity: Outcomes from the University of Portsmouth Event”
09.45-10.15 Marina P. Markellou
Intellectual Property Attorney, LLM in Intellectual Property from the University of Montpellier, and currently scholar of the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation:
“From Copyright to Copyleft and from Copyleft to Copywrong or ‘If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be?’”
10.15-10.45 Ashutoh Potdar
Performance Artist, Writer, and Critic.
Programme Executive, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore:
“User-generated Contents and Urban Middle Class”
10.45-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-11.30 Andres Guadamuz
SCRIPT Law and Technology Centre, University of Edinburgh:
“If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Placing User-generated Content in Context of Commercial Copyright Policy”
11.30-12.00 Puneet Kishor
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
“Public Policy: Mashing-up Technology and Law”
12.00-12.30 Sigrid Quack, Leonard Dobusch
Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies, Cologne:
“The Copyright Dispute: A Transnational Regulatory Struggle”
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-14.00 Finola Kerrigan
Department of Management, King’s College London:
“Revisiting the Role of Critical Reviews in Film Marketing”
14.00-14.30 Christine Riefa
Brunel Law School, Brunel University (West London):
“Liability of Online Auction Sites for Infringing ‘User-generated Content’: Have IP Owners Lost the Battle But Not the War?”
14.30-15.00 Thanos K Tsingos
Attorney at law and LLM in Information Technology, Media and E-Commerce from the Faculty of Law, University of Essex:
“User-generated Content and Intellectual Property Rights: Rules Governing an Internet Service Provider’s Liability in Europe and USA”
15.00-15.30 COFFEE
15.30-17.30 Summing up and panel discussion
19.30 Farewell Dinner at Uppsala Konsert and Kongress.
Musical guests: Sopranos
For more infomation on the Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content, please email the workshop chair Eva Hemmungs Wirtén <eva.hemmungs-wirten@ABM.UU.SE>.
