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From: "Hardesty, William H. III Dr." <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Hardesty, William H. III Dr." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:42:42 -0400
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Subject: Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Author and Copyright
Dear colleagues,
This fallšs Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, Professor Jane C. Ginsburg,
will be visiting us this week. Her public lecture, The Authoršs Place in
the Future of Copyright, will take place at 4:30PM, Thursday, September 23,
in Room 25, Farmer School of Business.
The Authoršs Place in the Future of Copyright
Three hundred years ago, the 1710 British Statute of Anne made authors the
owners of an intangible property right in their works. Vesting copyright in
Authors rather than exploiters was an innovation in England in the 18th
century. It made authorship the functional and moral center of the system.
But all too often in fact, authors then and now neither control nor derive
substantial benefits from their work. Two encroachments, one long-standing,
the other a product of the digital era, cramp the authoršs place in
copyright today. First, most authors lack bargaining power; the real
economic actors in the copyright system have long been the publishers and
other exploiters to whom authors cede their rights. These actors may
advance the figure of the author for the moral lustre it lends their appeals
to lawmakers, but then may promptly despoil the creators of whatever
increased protections they may have garnered. Second, the advent of new
technologies of creation and dissemination of works of authorship not only
challenges traditional revenue models, but also calls into question whatever
artistic control the author may retain. Professor Ginsburg will examine both
prongs of the pincers, and then will suggest some reasons for optimism for
the future.
Jane Ginsburg is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic
Property Law at Columbia University and director of its Kernochan Center for
Law, Media, and the Arts. She teaches legal methods, copyright law, and
trademarks law, and is the author or coauthor of casebooks in these
subjects, among them International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights: The
Berne Convention and Beyond. She is the coeditor of Trademarks and Brands,
Foundations of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Stories, and,
forthcoming, Copyright and Piracy. She was a coreporter for the American Law
Institute project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing
Jurisdiction, Choice of Law and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.
Please announce the lecture to students who might be interested and, if you
can, join us on Thursday afternoon.
Thanks.
Bill
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