Category: law

At CopyCamp, Anna Smolar will tell us about the production of the play Henrietta Lacks (more about the play at: „http://www.kopernik.org.pl/…/festiwal-pr…/projekt-teatralny/”:http://www.kopernik.org.pl/…/festiwal-pr…/projekt-teatralny/). It will be a story about recycling culture and collective work of actors and the director. Anna Smolar is a Polish-French theater director and translator. In 2016 her Dybuk received a ministerial prize for achievements in Polish Contemporary Art. Her performance Aktorzy Żydowscy (Jewish Actors) received the 2016 Grand Prix at Kaliskie Spotkania Teatralne. She is the author of the French translation book Grazyna Jagielska Miłość z kamienia.

At CopyCamp we look into the future. And in the very near future computer programs could have copyrights just as people do. Małgorzata Ciepłuch will tell us about this in detail. She graduated form the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and law department of Warsaw University. Currently she is a PhD student at two departments, law and cultural studies, at the University of Gdańsk. Her main research interest is copyright law in the context of protection of musicians, in particular, relations between musical and legal cultures. Since 2010 she offers legal support for the creative industry.

TTP, CETA, TTIP. Trade agreements are not suited for regulating copyrights – on October 28th this will be the topic of Lisa Macklem’s presentation at CopyCamp. Lisa is a Canadian lawyer researching the intersection of technology, copyright, and the media and how these impact on innovation and human rights.

A European copyright fit for the digital age. This is the title of Therese Comodini Cachia’s keynote speech for CopyCamp 2016. Member of the European Parliament Dr. Comodini Cachia has been working as a lawyer in the field of human rights since 1997. She has been representing victims of human rights violations as well as advising non-governmental organisations. She is a lecturer at the Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta and lectured at the University of Utrecht, in Holland and at the Europa-Viadrina University in Germany. In the European Parliament she works in the Culture, Education, Youth Policy, Media and Sport Committee (CULT), the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) and also serves on the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI).

Iga Bałos will tell us about copyright law. The whole of it. In 10 minutes. On October 27th at CopyCamp. Dr. Bałos is an assistant professor at AFM Krakow University, where she is also a copyright law expert for the e-Learning Centre. In her professional practice she negotiates and draws up film production contracts. She is an author of many scientific and popular science publications, including a book „Prawo dla filmowców” (“Law for Filmmakers”, http://www.w-wm.pl/ksiazki/prawo-dla-filmowcow). Member of the research centre – The Allerhand Institute.

The Visegrad track of this CopyCamp is full of Open Science. Join us on October 27th for the presentation of prof. Anikó Grad-Gyenge, who will tell about Hungarian Open Access. She is the Head of the Department of Civil and Roman Law at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest, Vicepresident of the Hungarian Copyright Forum, member of the ALAI Group Association, and of the Copyright Expert Board.

New rights for publishers are among EC proposals for the copyright reform. On October 28th, at CopyCamp Ana Ramalho will tell us whether it is a bone to throw, in particular in the light of such EU principles as subsidiarity and proportionality. Dr. Ramalho is currently an assistant professor at Universiteit Maastricht. She has previously studied at Lisbon, Munich and Amsterdam.

The Modern Poland Foundation presents the results of the research on the possible future scenarios of creating, sharing and using cultural goods and the impact of copyright on the state of European society, culture, education and creative sectors in the perspective of the year 2040.

Copyright law is a lens focusing a lot of different and complex problems – from issues related to fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of communication and right to privacy, through constitutional models of political life, to tectonic changes in the markets caused by technological changes. The status of this legislation determines not only the work of many business sectors, but also the basic issues related to communication of hundreds of millions of people, a lot of citizens treating copyright law as a way of earning a living, level of education, or the operation of high culture.

(from Introduction by Jarosław Lipszyc)

The report summarising the project is available in Polish and English.

Each year artists and producers, European Parliament members, Pirates, collecting societies, librarians and lawyers, scientists, politicians and educators from all over the world meet in Warsaw to participate in CopyCamp, the biggest European conference on the impact of copyright on the information society. All parties interested in the debate on the current shape of the copyright system discuss the future of law regulating the circulation of cultural goods on the Internet and its influence on society, science, education and art. In 2014 special attention was paid to the perspective of the Visegrad Group countries.

The post-conference publication is a subjective selection of some of the most interesting presentations given at the third edition of the CopyCamp conference.

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We are pleased to have launched an Open Call for speakers at the International CopyCamp Conference 2014. This year we will focus on the social impacts of copyright. CopyCamp will take place on November 6-7 in Warsaw.

If you are interested in the subject of copyright and would like to express their opinion, submit a presentation proposal by the 15th of June.

To take part in the conference as a speaker, please submit your presentation summary of max. 1800 characters via speaker registration form. In order to simply attend the conference, please sign up using participant registration form.

Submitting your proposal, please choose one of the following thematic tracks:

• CopyArt
• Creative Middle Class
• How to Pay?
• How to Be Paid?
• Copyright and Education
• Technology and Innovation
• Copyright and Human Rights
• Self-Publishing
• Future of the Book
• Copyright Enforcement
• Future of Copyright
• Copyright Debate

On the basis of the proposal summary, the appointed jury will select about 30 speakers of this year’s CopyCamp. Please note: your presentation should not exceed 10 minutes.

Please find more information at copycamp.pl!