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Copyright in the internet age: Management, Enforcement, Exceptions and Limitations

Brussels, 19-20 May 2011

Copyright rules in the European Union, especially in the field of music, are faced with new challenges due to the rapid growth of the internet, mobile phones and new technologies.

• The CISAC case before the General Court and other issues of competition law
  
• Online music and the future of collecting societies 
• Compatibility of ACTA with the EU legal system
• National measures against piracy
  
• Copyright enforcement against file-sharing and responsibility of internet service providers
  
• Exceptions and limitations to copyright protection in the face of new internet technologies: communication to the public, fair compensation, technical protection measures and protection of fundamental rights
  
• The European Commission’s digital Agenda for Europe
  

Conference organiser: Florence Hartmann-Vareilles, ERA

Areas of Law: Intellectual Property Law, Media Law, Competition Law

Language: English

• Dr Jean-Eric de Cockborne, Head of Unit, Audiovisual and Media Policies, DG INFSO, European Commission, Brussels
  
• Dr Till Evert, Head of Business and Legal, CELAS GmbH, Munich
  
• Dr Mihály Ficsor, President of the Hungarian Copyright Experts Council, Budapest
  
• Jonathan Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London
  
• Professor Willem Grosheide, Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIER) and Molengraaff Institute for Private Law, Utrecht University; Solicitor, Van Doorne, Amsterdam
  
• Professor Franck Macrez, Lecturer in Law, CEIPI (Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle), University of Strasbourg 
  
• Miguel Mendes Pereira, Partner, Abreu Advogados; Senior Lecturer, Law Faculty, Lisbon
  
• Flip Petillion, Partner, Crowell&Moring, Brussels
  
• Professor Martin Senftleben, Senior Consultant, Bird & Bird, The Hague
  
• Professor Alain Strowel, University Faculties of Saint Louis and University of Liège, Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP, Brussels 
  
• Corinna Ullrich, Deputy Head of Unit, Enforcement of Rights, DG MARKT, European Commission, Brussels