[EWBCLB-TRAIL] Access To Justice in the Creative Economy

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August

06

Wednesday
Speaker:Mr David O. Carson, Member of the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) in the U.S. Copyright Office
Professor Emily Hudson, The Queen's College, University of Oxford
Professor Kristelia Garcia, Leo George Professor of Communications, Entertainment, and New Media, Georgetown Law Centre
Mr Gabriel Ong, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
Ms Adriana Uson, Singapore International Arbitration Centre
Dr Joshua Yuvaraj, University of Auckland
Asst. Professor Mark McLaughlin, Singapore Management University
Dr Maxence Rivoire, King’s College, London
Professor Elizabeth Townsend Gard, Tulane University
Sidney K. Gard, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mr Joseph Lau, National University of Singapore
Mr Tan Ming Quan, Head of Licensing and Legal Affairs, COMPASS: Collective Management Organisations and Dispute Resolution
Mr Caleb Goh, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre
Dr Fady Aoun, University of Sydney
Moderator:Professor David Tan, National University of Singapore
Professor Graeme Austin, Victoria University of Wellington; Melbourne University
Venue:Lee Sheridan Conference Room
NUS Bukit Timah Campus
469G Bukit Timah Road
Type of Participation:Participation by Invitation Only

Description

This symposium will explore initiatives directed at achieving just, cost-effective, efficient, and fair resolutions of disputes about rights in creative works and products. Its key focus will be on access to justice in the global creative economy, an increasingly important topic, as different nations have developed new initiatives in dispute resolution in this field.

Laws, especially intellectual property legislation, around the world are increasing in sophistication as domestic, regional, and international laws respond to the challenges of new technologies. But the promises of these measures will not be realised without appropriate and accessible systems for the resolution of disputes, such as mediation and arbitration. Speakers will discuss and analyse the different contributions that public initiatives and private ordering strategies can make to enhancing access to justice in the creative economies.

The topics discussed at this conference are relevant to individual authors, cultural organisations, the public sector, private firms, distribution platforms, established firms, and SMEs, etc. All parties involved in the creative economies have a stake in the issues to be examined. From a systemic perspective, the access to justice questions explored in this conference concern the contributions domestic legal systems can make to the flourishing of the creative sector, and, ultimately, to the international legal order.

Contact Information

ewbclb@nus.edu.sg