events

Workshop: Music Publishing, copyright and business models

One-day Workshop Thursday 4 June 2015 Music publishing is an old established industry that has adapted to successive technological and institutional changes, especially to copyright law, by adopting different strategies and business models. The workshop explores how music publishing has evolved in the long run, and what historical and economic factors can explain its adaptations… Read more » about Workshop: Music Publishing, copyright and business models

What’s wrong with copying? Roundtable on the foundations of copyright law

Friday 22 May 2015, 16:00-18:00 – Executive Business Centre, room EB 302 Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto) presents and discusses his book What’s Wrong with Copying? (Harvard University Press, 2015) Discussants:  Jose Bellido, Maurizio Borghi, Martin Kretschmer and Luke McDonagh Copyright law, as conventionally understood, serves the public interest by regulating the production and dissemination… Read more » about What’s wrong with copying? Roundtable on the foundations of copyright law

Stavroula Karapapa: “Introducing the ‘new public’ into copyright infringement”

Public lectures series 2015 Thursday 23 April, from 6 pm in EB306 This talk will discuss what amounts to an actionable communication of copyright works to the public. Recent rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union uphold that infringement takes place not only where an unauthorised communication reaches the public but also… Read more » about Stavroula Karapapa: “Introducing the ‘new public’ into copyright infringement”