Comparative Dimensions of Limitations & Exceptions in Copyright Law

The conference on Comparative Dimensions of Limitations & Exceptions in Copyright Law 2016 was jointly organized by the Centre for Law & Business, Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS), University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Hong Kong.  The conference was held from July 21 – 22, 2016 in the Lee Sheridan Conference Room of NUS Law (Bukit Timah Campus).

 

July 21, 2016

SESSION 1

Moderator/Commentator: Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley School of Law

 

“Copyright Exceptions: a Comparative & Economic Analysis”

Ben Depoorter, UC Hastings College of the Law

 

“Self-Actualization and the Need to Create as a Limit on Copyright”

Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

“Fair Use and its Values”

Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School

 

SESSION 2

Moderator/Commentator: David Llewelyn, Singapore Management University School of Law

 

“Judging Copyright Limitations and Exceptions”

Shyam Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

“The Bureaucratisation of Copyright Exceptions: Roles and Resistance”

Robert Burrell, University of Sheffield School of Law

 

“Fair Use and the Public Interest: A Tale of Two Digital Library Litigations”

Haochen Sun, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

 

SESSION 3

Moderator/Commentator: Shyam Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

“Fair Use as an Advance on Fair Dealing: Which Points of Difference Don’t Matter, and Which Ones Do?”

Michael Handler, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law

 

“Fair Use Concepts and the Expansion of the Boundary of Fair Dealing in Malaysia”

Ida Madieha Abd Ghani Azmi, International Islamic University Malaysia

 

“A General Fair Use Clause in Civil Law Countries”

Tatsuhiro Ueno, Waseda University

 

SESSION 4

Moderator/Commentator: Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

“Fair Dealing in the Education Sector: The Delhi University Photocopying Litigation”

Arpan Banerjee, Jindal Global Law School

 

“The Slow-Burn of CCH (or Why Empirical Analysis is Really Really Important for Understanding Copyright Exceptions)”

Emily Hudson, King’s College London , Dickson Poon School of Law & University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law

 

“A Comparative Empirical Analysis of Educational Exceptions in Copyright Legislation Worldwide”

Daniel Seng, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

 

 

July 22, 2016

SESSION 1

Moderator/Commentator: Shyam Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

“Security Testing and Its Effects on Copyright Infringement and Fair Use”

David Nimmer, University of California Los Angeles School of Law

 

“Fair Dealing in Canada: the Role of Normative Anchors and Canadian Pragmatism”

Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt University Law School

 

“Fair Dealing, Human Rights, Liability Rules, and the Citizen Journalist”

Graeme Austin, Victoria University of Wellington School of Law

 

SESSION 2

Moderator/Commentator: Ng-Loy Wee Loon, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

 

“Cultural Impacts on Copyright Limitations: Parody in Germany and Japan”

Christoph Rademacher, Waseda University

 

“Parody, Satire, Caricature and Pastiche: Fair Dealing is No Laughing Matter”

David Tan, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

 

“Protection of Remix Works and Remix Right in Copyright Law”

Yahong Li, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

 

SESSION 3

Moderator/Commentator: Haochen Sun, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

 

“From Fair Dealing to Fair Use to UGC – Three Steps to Copyright Reform or Pseutopia?”

Alice Lee, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

 

“Limitations and Exceptions in Copyright Law across the Taiwan Strait”

Kung Chung Liu, Institutum Iurisprudentiae Academia Sinica

 

“Fair But Confusingly Similar: The Potential Impact of Trademark Protection on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations”

Irene Calboli, Texas A&M University School of Law & Singapore Management University

 

SESSION 4

Moderator/Commentator: Ng-Loy Wee Loon, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

 

“The Case for Mandatory, Global Fair Use”

Tanya Aplin, King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law

 

“The Copyright Limitations and Exceptions Treaty – Nightmare or Dream Come True?”

Martin Senftleben, VU University Amsterdam Faculty of Law

 

“Permitted Uses in Copyright Law – Need for an International Instrument?”

Reto Hilty, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

 

View full programme: http://law.nus.edu.sg/clb/pdf/200716_CopyrightLawConferenceProgramme.pdf

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