Expert Meeting on Exceptions to Copyright Hosted by UNESCO This Week
24-05-2005 (Paris)
A meeting on exceptions to copyright, which will also address copyright issues in the digital environment, will take place on 27 May 2005 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. It is one of a series of French-German meetings on copyright that UNESCO organizes in collaboration with the Institut de recherche en propriété intellectuelle Henri-Desbois and the Max Planck Institut.
The topic of this week’s meeting "Exceptions to copyright" will be presented by Thomas Hören (Münster) and Jean-Christophe Galloux (Paris). In 2003, UNESCO prepared a study on the nature and scope of exceptions and limitations to copyright protection, particularly in the field of scientific research, education and culture, and the striking of a fair balance between the general interest tasks of the transmission of knowledge and protecting the legitimate rights of authors and other rights holders.
The main objectives of the series of Germen-French meetings on copyright are to make progress in the debate on copyright in the digital environment and to discuss about the future of copyright in France and Germany proposing changes necessary to bring it in line with European requirements. The meetings are also aimed at opening the way to preliminary discussions on the harmonization of copyright in both countries
Future topics will be “Collective management societies” (UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 14 October 2005) and “The contractual aspects of copyright” (UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 9 December 2005).
The main objectives of the series of Germen-French meetings on copyright are to make progress in the debate on copyright in the digital environment and to discuss about the future of copyright in France and Germany proposing changes necessary to bring it in line with European requirements. The meetings are also aimed at opening the way to preliminary discussions on the harmonization of copyright in both countries
Future topics will be “Collective management societies” (UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 14 October 2005) and “The contractual aspects of copyright” (UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 9 December 2005).
Related themes/countries
· France: News Archive 2005
· Public Domain Information: News Archives 2005
· Germany: News Archives 2005
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