Copyrights and Wrongs

Date

October 27, 2010

Time

18:30–20:00

Place

The Royal Society: London

Price

See below

The controversial recent passage of the Digital Economy Bill brought issues of copyright in the digital era to the forefront of public attention. Digital media and the internet have made the sharing of texts, music and images easier than ever, and the enforcement of copyright restriction harder. This situation has encouraged the growth of IP law, and prompted increased industrial concentration on extending and 'policing' IP protection, while also leading to the growth of an 'open access', or 'creative commons' movement which challenges such control of knowledge and creativity.

This panel discussion focuses on these issues and in particular on the impact of copyright on the arts and authorship in the fast-changing digital era.  It is jointly hosted by the British Academy and London Centre for the Arts and Cultural Exchange, as part of LCACE's 2010 Inside Out Festival.

To list to an audio recording of 'Copyrights and Wrongs' please click here.

Speakers include (among others):

Professor Ian Christie, Department of History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London.
Professor Hector MacQueen, The University of Edinburgh School of Law.
William St. Clair, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Open Book Publishers and Senior Research Fellow, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Maggie Gee, novelist, Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
Jonathan Griffiths, Solicitor and Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London

Cost: Free, booking required.

Organizers

Inside Out Festival

Registration

For this event no registration is necessary on the Inside Out Festival website but may (if stated above) be required elsewhere