6th Annual Meeting, February 1-4, 2004, Brussels

Agenda: Copyright in the Digital Age, February 4th

Venue: Hotel Renaissance, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels

This one-day conference on the effects of the information society on exceptions to copyrights is being held with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Invitations were sent to US and EU representatives of industry, governments, consumer organisations and civil society as well as academia.

Following conferences on "Access to medicines" and "The WIPO Work Program", the TACD Special Group on Intellectual Property will now open discussion on the effects that digital technologies have on the perception and use of copyrights. On each panel four or five speakers will introduce the issue followed by questions and open discussion. To ensure enough time for discussion, all presentations are limited to 10 minutes.

09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and introduction

Rhoda Karpatkin, President Emeritus of Consumers Union

Jim Murray, Director, BEUC

09.15 - 10.45 Part I: General overview - what is copyright and what are the policy developments of interest to consumers?

Moderator: James Love, Consumer Project on Technology

Jule Sigall, US Copyright Office, Library of Congress

Bertrand Moullier, Director General, International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF)

Nick Ashton-Hart, Executive Director, International Music Managers Forum (IMMF) - The rights of authors and performers

Chris Murray, Consumers Union - The consumer perspective

10.45 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.30 Part II: Technical Protection measures and their effect on fair use.

Moderator: Anna Fielder, Director of the Office for Developed and Transition Economies, Consumers International.

Richard Owens, Director, Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division, World Intellectual Property Organisation

Bernt Hugenholz, Professor, University of Amsterdam - Contractual use and exceptions to copyrights

Laurence Lebersborg, Test-Achats (Belgium) - Technical Protection of CDs

Gwen Hinze, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation - Digital rights management

Michelle Childs, Head of Policy Research, Consumers Association (UK) - Regional encoding of DVDs and CDs

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.00 Part III: Enforcement of copyrights in the digital age

Considering how rights and exceptions are balanced, looking at the strain on priorities of enforcement bodies, privacy versus enforcement of copyrights, and EU and US legislation (DCMA IPR-enforcement directive)

Moderator: Victoria Villamar, Head of the Legal Section, BEUC / European Consumers Organisation

Rogier Wezenbeek, DG Internal Market, European Commission

Ted Shapiro, Vice President, Europe Motion Picture Association

Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm, SOLV new business advocaten

Sarah Deutsch, Verizon, VP & Associate General Counsel

Volker Grassmuck, Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology, Berlin

15.00 - 15.15 Break

15.15 - 16.45 Part IV: How, and by whom, will digital information be controlled?

Moderator: Ed Mierzwinski, US Public Interest Research Group

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, International Institute of Infonomics

Manon Ress, Consumer Project on Technology

Robin Gross, IP Justice

Machiel van der Velde, Consumentenbond

16.45 - 17.00 Break

17.00 - 18.00 Closing panel: Conclusions of the day's discussions

Moderator: Machiel van der Velde, Consumentenbond

Richard Owens, Head of Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division, World Intellectual Property Organisation

Responses to day's discussions, 3-5 minutes each, from Michelle Childs, Anna Fielder, Victoria Villamar, Manon Ress and Gwen Hinze

Comments and questions from the floor

19.00 - Dinner hosted by TACD

Venue: Poivre Et Sel, Rue Du Parnasse 2, 1050 Brussels