KnowRight '98
2nd International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Free Flow of Information
 a part of the
IFIP '98
TUESDAY, 1 SEPTEMBER 1998

 

10.00 - 10.30
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND COMPUTER LEGISLATION

Adnan Yahya, Birzeit University, West Bank/PAL:
"On the global dimension of computer legislation: a Third World prespective"

 

11.00 - 12.30
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND IPR (continued)

 Daniel J. Gervais, Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., USA:
"Electronic copyright commerce: the role of intermediaries"

 Wilfried Reiners, Pöttken - Reiners - Wilser, D:
"Netlaw: development, trends, perspectives in a changing business world"

Vincent Porter, Farrell Burnett, University of Westminster, GB:
"Commerce and fair practice in Europe: The displacement of statutory limitations by licensing"

 

13.30 - 15.00

SESSION A

WORLD WIDE WEB

 Gerhard Laga, Wirtschaftkammer Österreich, A:
"Hyperlink, frames and inline images"

 Ralph Kilches, Regional Court of Appeal, Graz, A:
"Jurisdiction and domain names"

SESSION B

LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION

 Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, A:
"Deposit of multimedia products: necessary exemptions for national libraries and public libraries"

 Ken M.C. Nweke, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, WRN:
"Libraries and economic development in Nigeria"

 Ann Bartow, University of Idaho, USA:
"The incredible shrinking doctrine of educational fair use, and the impact of this shrinkage on educators"

 

15.30 - 17.00
PANEL
"WWW - REGULATION, POLICY AND LAW"

 Chair:
 Peter Randle, CEPIS/BCS, GB

Panelists:
 Ralph Kilches,A

Gunter Wilms,B

to be confirmed

 

17.15 - 18.15
SHORT PAPERS

Twinkle Egan, Law Library Dublin, IRL:
"Centralised E.U. Convention Causebook and Judgement Registry Database"

Albert Krasilow, Novy Atlant, Moscow, RUS:
"Ecology of Knowledge and Intellectual Systems"

Jean Mermet, TIMA-UJF Grenoble, F:
"A Worldwide Intellectual Property Network for System-on-a-Chip (SOC) Design"

NAVIGATION BAR

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