Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:29:21 -0400
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From: John Taormina <[email protected]>
Subject: Creative Commons Lecture
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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
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