Events


APACA Summer Event - Members only

Melbourne, February 2010

An event not to be missed!

Join us to celebrate the start of the new year and enjoy the company of other members working in copyright and picture research.

Details of this event will be communicated to members shortly (in the fortnightly email bulletin).
 

The Pacific Rim Innovation Conference 2010 will be held at the University of Melbourne, Australia on Thursday 21 & Friday 22 January 2010

Registrations closing Friday 11 December

http://www.ipria.org/events/conf/PRI%20Conference/default.html

This inaugural conference will bring together scholars working on the economics, management and law of innovation. It will foster an inter-disciplinary exchange of knowledge. Sessions will include contributed papers, panel discussions and keynote presentations. The conference will focus on:
  • The effectiveness of the IP system
  • Markets for technology
  • The strategic management of R&D – within and between firms (eg 'open innovation')
  • Government innovation policies
  • Managing key challenges of the 21st Century (eg climate change, gene patents, nanotechnology).

The event is being organised by the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) at the University of Melbourne, with support from the Institute of Innovation Research, (Hitotsubashi University), the NUS Business School (National University of Singapore)and the University of Auckland Business School.

Keynote speakers will include Professors Rochelle Dreyfuss (New York University), Ivan Png (NUS School of Business), Peter Drahos (Australian National University), Bruno Cassiman, (IESE Business School, Barcelona) TBC and Vincenzo Denicolo (Universita di Bologna)with further speakers to be confirmed.

 
14th Biennial Copyright Law and Practice Symposium
Hosted by the Australian Copyright Council and the Copyright Society of Australia
When: 15 & 16 October 2009
Where: Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
See http://www.copyright.org.au/training/conferences/symposium2009 for further information.
 
Piracy or Parody: Coming Through the Rye still banned in the USA?
Hosted by the Melbourne Law School
8 October 2009
6 - 7.30pm, registration and refreshments from 5.30pm
Speakers: Shaun Miller, Partner, Marshalls & Dent Lawyers; Colin Golvan SC, Victorian Bar and author
on copyright, writers and law and Ken Gelder, Professor of English, School of Culture and
Communications, University of Melbourne.
Taking the recent case of Salinger, author of the classic The Catcher in the Rye, who has sued
Frederick Colting who writes as John David California and his publisher for their unauthorised sequel
Coming Through the Rye, this seminar will consider both legal and literary aspects of unauthorised
sequels.
See http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl/ for further information.
 
RIP a Remix Manifesto at Horse Bazaar
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the
information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between
users and producers. The film features mash-up musician Girl Talk, Creative Commons founder
Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow.
When: Tuesday 20th October at 7:30 pm
Where: Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: A very reasonable $10 / $5
See http://democracyandjustice.org.au/images/enmasse flyer.pdf for further information.
 
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