Copyright Law Lecture at the Uni of Melbourne

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi all

Below is some information to a Copyright Law Lecture by Professor
Jane Ginsburg of the Law School at Columbia University at the
University of Melbourne on Tuesday 20 March. It's a bit far for some
to get to, but there may be some interested.

For those interested interested in attending, registration details
and cost are at the end.

Cheers
David

The Exclusive Right to their Writings
Compensation vs Control in the Digital Age

Professor Jane Ginsburg
Law School, Columbia University

Critics assert that new copyright amendments
in the US (provisions of the 1998 Digital
Millennium Copyright Act) vest copyright owners
with a power of 'control' that is fundamentally
at odds with the copyright scheme articulated
in the US Constitution and implemented
through 200 years of copyright legislation.
Professor Ginsburg contends that the
Constitution embodies the concept of author
control. She acknowledges that the intervening
statutory and case law history on occasion
elevated claims for enhanced availability of
works over copyright owner interests in exercising control
over new modes of exploitation. But control remains very
much part of the US copyright system; the technological
protections, further secured by legal protections, that may
be required to preserve control should also be seen as part
of that system.

There will be an opportunity for comments and questions
following the lecture.

COPYRIGHT LAW LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Jane Ginsburg is the
Martin L. Janklow Professor of Law and Artistic
Property Law at Columbia Law School and the
Co-Director of the Kernochan Centre for Law,
Media and the Arts. She has a BA and MA
from the University of Chicago, a JD from
Harvard University and a Doctor of Law from
Université de Paris II.

Professor Ginsburg's publications include two
casebooks and numerous articles and texts, in
English and in French, on copyright and other intellectual
property topics. Among her most well-known articles are
Creation and Commercial Value: Copyright Protection of Works
of Information (1990) 90 Col L Rev 1865, Putting Cars on
the Information Superhighway: Authors, Exploiters and
Copyright in Cyberspace (1995) 95 Col L Rev 1466 and
Authors and Users in Copyright (1997) 45 J Copyright
Society USA.

When: Thursday 22 March 2001, 6-7.30pm
Light refreshments from 5.30pm

Where: Council Chamber, 1st Floor, Law Quadrangle
The University of Melbourne
(Refreshments will be served in the Staff Common Room.)

Cost: $35 (incl GST)

RSVP: Tuesday 20 March 2001
David Lindsay, tel 8344 6195, fax 9349 2976 or
email d.lindsay@law.unimelb.edu.au

Presented by the Melbourne Law School & the Centre for Media,
Communications and Information Technology Law

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