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Stephen Wyber at CopyCamp 2016
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The tough role of libraries as intermediaries between existing and aspiring authors is the topic of Stephen Wyber’s speech at CopyCamp. He works at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), based in The Hague, where he is responsible for engagement of IFLA with WIPO and in the EU on copyright reform.
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Anna Smolar at CopyCamp 2016
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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.
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Małgorzata Ciepłuch at CopyCamp 2016
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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.
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CopyCamp 2016 workshops
Registration is open for workshops accompanying the CopyCamp. More at: http://copycamp.pl/en/info/workshops/
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Lisa Macklem at CopyCamp 2016
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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.
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Therese Comodini Cachia at CopyCamp 2016
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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).
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Mikołaj Iwański at CopyCamp 2016
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Authors’ social rights. We cannot wait to hear the keynote of this year’s session on remunerating authors at CopyCamp. On October 27th it will be given by dr. Mikołaj Iwański, economist, head of History and Theory of Art Institute at the Painting and New Media Department of the Academy of Arts in Szczecin. Dr. Iwański co-edited the Black Book of Polish Artists (2015).
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Olga Goriunova at CopyCamp 2016
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Will copyright law soon become irrelevant in the age of machine learning? We are looking forward to hearing Olga Goriunova’s point of view discussing ownership, data and digital subjects. Dr Goriunova is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (Routledge, 2012), editor of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (Bloomsbury, 2014) and co-editor of Readme. Software Art and Cultures (University of Aarhus Press, 2004). She is a co-founder and co-editor of Computational Culture, A Journal of Software Studies (computationalculture.net). In 2014-2016 she is part of the Posthumanities research network. She is currently working on a monograph on digital subjects and on a co-authored book on environmental ethico-aesthetics.
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Jody Wood at CopyCamp 2016
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Copyright is not the only tool used to create intellectual monopolies. Freedom and ownership (of information) of ourselves is what Jody Wood will talk about at CopyCamp in her presentation titled „Identity as Privilege”. Jody is New York–based artist, currently a Fellow at University Settlement in NYC. She teaches art and social justice at Pace University. You can find more about Jody at: http://jodywoodart.com/
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Anikó Grad-Gyenge at CopyCamp 2016
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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.