09.00

Opening Session

Welcome Speeches

• Christian Archambeau, European Union Intellectual Property Office, Executive Director

• Frank Gotzen, president of ALAI

• Rudolf Leška, president of ALAI Czech Republic​

Key Note Speech

• Gadi Oron, CISAC, Director General - Collective Management of Rights in a Transforming Market

10.00

General report

• Romana Matanovac Vučković, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law (HR) - Collective Management of Rights

10.30

Coffee break

10.50

Competition and Collective Management of Copyright

Chair: Uma Suthersanen, Queen Mary University of London (UK)

Speakers:

• Daniel J. Gervais, Vanderbilt University Law School (USA) - Is Competition Among Collectives Leading to Positive Changes in Collective Management?

• Josef Drexl, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (GER) - The Contributions and Limitations of Competition Law to Regulate Collective Rights Management in the EU

• Sylvie Nérisson, Université de Bordeaux (FR)

• Caroline Bonin, SACEM, Legal Department Director (FR)

Plenary discussions

12.15

Lunch break

14.00

Setting and Litigating the tariffs

Chair: Mina Kianfar, UNVERZAGT VON HAVE, Partner (GER)

Panellists:

• Jeannette Dietrich, Netflix, Director Global Music (GER) - Authors’ and performers’ rights: the challenges of global production and distribution

• Andrea Kokonis, SOCAN, Associate General Counsel (CAN) - Practice of the Copyright Board

• Delia Lipszyc, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law (ARG) - Argentinian experience with competition and tariff  setting

Plenary discussion

15.00

Coffee break

15.20

Five Years with the European Union Directive on Collective Management of Copyright

Chair: Jacqueline Seignette, Höcker Advocaten, Partner

Panellists: 

• Véronique Delforge, European Commission, Directorate General CONNECT, Legal Officer – Copyright (BE)

• Maria Mercedes Frabboni, University of Sussex (UK) - Current UK perspectives and the developments of the expected withdrawal from the EU

• Tobias Holzmüller, GEMA, General Counsel (GER) 

• Gábor Faludi, Szecskay Attorneys at Law, Of Counsel, external counsel for Artisjus (HU) - Impact of EU policy on cultural diversity and small countries

• Massimo Scialò, Soundreef (IT/UK)

Plenary discussion

17.00

End of the Session

09.00

Opening Session

• Sylvie Forbin, WIPO, Deputy Director General of Copyright and Creative Industries

09.30

Collective management of Non-Music Repertoire

Chair: Silke von Lewinski, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (GER)

Panellists: 

• Marie Anne Ferry-Fall, ADAGP, General Director (FR) 

• Frederic Haber, Copyright Clearance Center, General Counsel (USA) - Copyright Clearance Center:  Voluntary Licensing for Text-Based Materials in the United States

• Hubert Tilliet, Society of Authors, Dramatic Composers (SACD), Director of Legal Affairs and Audiovisual Contract (FR) - Collective management in the audiovisual field

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Plenary discussion 

10.30

Coffee break

10.50

Technology Driven Copyright Management

Chair: Ysolde Gendreau, University of Montreal, Faculty of Law (CAN)

Panellists:​

• Viveca Still, Counsellor at the Ministry of Education and Culture (FI) - Developing the Copyright infrastructure – metadata and beyond

• Tomas Ericsson, AMRAHe - Introducing AMRA and its business model

• Jose Luis Sevillano, AIE, Managing Director; SCAPR, member of the Board and President of Databases Committee; concerning the experiences with IPD-VRDB database

• Charlotte Aïdan, SACEM, Head of International Legal Affairs (FR) - uRights project

• Jörn Radloff, Bytedance London, Head Counsel Music Licensing, EMEA (UK)

Plenary discussion

12.30

Lunch break

14.00

Managing Copyright in Cyberspace and Across the Borders

Chair: Markéta Trimble, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law (USA)

Panellists:

• Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law, Faculty of Law (N) - Territoriality from EU perspective

• Eleni-Tatiani Synodinou, University of Cyprus, Faculty of Law (CY) - Geoblocking

• Pavel Koukal, Masaryk University, Faculty of Law (CZ) - Portability Regulation and the Consumer Protection

• Adriana Moscoso, Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Spain, Director of Cultural Industries and Cooperation (E)

• Satoshi Watanabe, Chairman of CISAC Asia-Pacific Regional Committee on Asian IP offices’ policies on collective management (JP)

Plenary discussion

15.30

Coffee break

15.50

Mandatory and Extended Collective Management – a Panacea or Limitation?

Chair: Jukka Liedes, Chairman, Finnish Copyright Society (FIN)

Panellists: 

• Mihály Ficsor, Chairman, Central and Eastern European Copyright Alliance (CEECA) (HU) - EU acquis with regard to the extended and mandatory collective management

• Raquel Xalabarder Plantada, Open University of Catalonia, Faculty of Law and Political Science (E) - Collective Management of Visual Arts

• Regan A. Smith, U.S. Copyright Office, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights (USA) – New U.S. legislation on collective management of music

• Johan Axhamn, Lund University, Department of Business Law (SWE) - Extended and Mandatory Collective Management in theory and practice

Plenary discussion

17.10

Closing Session

• Paul Torremans, University of Nottingham, Faculty of Social Sciences (UK) - Individual and Collective Management of Rights: A Three-Dimensional Snapshot by Way of Concluding Remarks

17.30

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