Enough is Enough!: Ceilings on Intellectual Property Rights Workshop
Conference of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
&
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Greenberg Lounge
NYU School of Law
May 1-2, 2009
Agenda PDF
Abstract:
On May 1-2, 2009, the Engelberg Center at NYU School of Law and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law [MPI] is holding a two-day workshop (by invitation only) to consider whether Enough is Enough: whether it is time to consider limits on the expansion of intellectual property rights within the international framework. The intent is to talk about existing limits within, and outside, intellectual property law (including human rights and competition law). We will also consider existing proposals for mandatory limits imposed through international intellectual property law, including:
- Professors P. Bernt Hugenholtz & Ruth L. Okediji, Conceiving an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright
- IPT Project: Proposed Amendments to TRIPS - Synopsis with Current TRIPS Text [which also includes provisions of the TRIPS Agreement that remain unchanged; full text version]
- IPT Project: Proposed Amendments to TRIPS [with only provisions that are proposed to be amended; short version]
- The Declaration on a Balanced Interpretation of the "Three Step-Test" in Copyright Law, a joint project of Queen Mary School of Law, University of London, and the MPI
- Christophe Geiger, Jonathan Griffiths, & Reto Hilty, Declaration on a Balanced Interpretation of the "Three-Step Test" in Copyright Law [quotable IIC version of the Declaration]
- Reichman & Okediji, Empowering Digitally Integrated Scientific Research: The Pivotal Role of Copyright Law's Limitations and Exceptions
Speakers and Topics:
Friday, May 1: 8:30-5:30PM
Taking Stock
Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law
Moderator
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, NYU School of Law
Introduction/Overview: Initiatives, Concepts, Rationales
Annette Kur, Visiting, NYU School of Law
Introduction/Overview: Initiatives, Concepts, Rationales
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Explicit [and Implicit?] Limitations in the Present System
Thomas Cottier, University of Bern, Institute for European and International Economic Law
The Larger Framework: IP as an Element of World Trade Regulations [Impact of Art. XX GATT]
Pedro Roffe, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
The Larger Framework: IP as an Element of World Trade Regulations [Impact of Art. XX GATT]
Diane Zimmerman, NYU School of Law
Moderator
Laurence Helfer, Vanderbilt University Law School
Human Rights
Smita Narula, NYU School of Law
Human Rights
Antonina Bakardijieva Engelbrekt, Stockholm University Department of Law
Factoring Limitations into the system: Institutional choice and design
Internationally Mandatory Limitations ["Ceilings"]
Reto Hilty, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Moderator
Martin Senftleben, VU University Amsterdam Faculty of Law
Current proposals and their accord with the present system
Kenneth Crews, Columbia University, Copyright Advisory Office
Mapping limitations: WIPO's endeavors in the SCC framework
Christophe Geiger, Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies [CEIPI]
A balanced interpretation of the three-step test
Jonathan Griffiths, Queen Mary School of Law, University of London
A balanced interpretation of the three-step test
Robert Burrell, Visiting, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Moderator
Jerome Reichman, Duke University School of Law
The concept of Open Knowledge Environments
Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Trademarks (and GIs)
Saturday, May 2: 8:30-4:00PM
Internationally Mandatory Limitations (cont'd)
Barton Beebe, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Moderator
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, NYU School of Law
Patents
Katherine Strandburg, DePaul University College of Law
Patents
Competition Law as the Ceiling
Josef Drexl, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Moderator
Harry First, NYU School of Law
National stage
Howard Shelanski, Visiting, NYU School of Law
National stage
Jens Schovsbo, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law
International stage
Tahir Amin, Initiative for Medicines: Access & Knowledge [I-MAK]
Discussant
Eleanor Fox, NYU School of Law
Discussant
Priti Radhakrishnan, Initiative for Medicines: Access & Knowledge [I-MAK]
Discussant