I am forwarding this for anyone nearby and
interested. The lecture is sponsored by the
Center for the Study of the Public Domain, now
at Duke University
John
Professor P. Bernt Hugenholtz of the University
of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law:
"Creative Commons and Authors' Rights: Les extrèmes se touchent"
Date: 10/24/05
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: Duke Law School, Room 3043
Lunch will be served
Conceived from radically different visions of
copyright, American-bred Creative Commons and Old
Europe-style authors' rights (droit d'auteur)
have more in common than initially meets the eye.
Focusing on the rights and freedoms of creators,
both systems recognize certain inalienable moral
rights, such as a right to attribution and a
right of integrity. Moreover, for both systems to
achieve their professed goals, it is vital that
copyright in works of authorship remain with the
actual creators, and not be transferred to the
media companies or collecting societies that wish
to exploit them. Therefore, certain statutory
limits to freedom of contract aimed at preventing
(overly) broad grants of rights are required.
Strong author-protective contract rules currently
exist in many traditional authors' rights
countries, such as France and Germany, and may
serve as examples for the United States.
Bernt Hugenholtz is Professor of Intellectual
Property Law, and Director of the Institute for
Information Law of the University of Amsterdam
(IViR). He has written numerous books, studies
and articles on a variety of topics involving
copyright, information technology and the
networked environment. He advises the Minister of
Justice of the Netherlands, and has been a
consultant to the World Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO), the European Commission, the
European Parliament and several other national
governments. Professor Hugenholtz is Legal
Project Lead of Creative Commons, the Netherlands.
This lecture is open to all, and is sponsored by
the Center for the Study of the Public Domain as
part of the Information Ecology Lecture Series.
Boxed lunches will be available for the first
eighty people who come to the lecture.
--
John J. Taormina
Director, Visual Resources Center
Dept. of Art and Art History
Duke University
Box 90764
112 East Duke Building
Durham NC 27708-0764
Ph: 919-684-2501
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http://www.duke.edu/web/art/
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