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AHRC Primary Sources on Copyright History Project: Conference – Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th March 2008 – Stationers' Hall, London
This two day conference was the culmination of a research project involving the creation of a digital resource concerning the
history of copyright in five key jurisdictions; France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, for the period before 1900.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Mark Rose University of California Santa Barbara , Professor Laurent Pfister University of
Versailles Saint-Quentin and Professor Karl Nikolaus Peifer Köln University.
The conference was held at the Stationers' Hall in London. (The research group is very grateful to the Worshipful Company of
Stationers and Newspaper Makers for providing this facility free of charge and to Emmanuel College, Cambridge for providing sponsorship
towards the cost of the conference).
Programme: Wednesday 19th March 2008
| 09:30 – 10:00 | COFFEE AND REGISTRATION |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | WelcomeProfessor Bill Cornish, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Introduction and Demonstration of Resource Professor Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge and Professor Martin Kretschmer, Bournemouth University |
| 10.45 – 11:30 | Keynote Speech: The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright: Areopagitica, the Stationers’ Company, and the Statute of Anne Professor Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | COFFEE |
| 11.45 – 12:30 | Keynote Speech: Author and work in the French Print Privileges system Professor Laurent Pfister, University of Paris V |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | From the Stationers’ Company Archive Robin Myers, Honorary Archivist Emeritus, Stationers’ Company |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | BUFFET LUNCH AND OPPORTUNITY FOR DELEGATES TO EXPLORE THE DATABASE ON WIRELESS NETWORK AND TERMINALS PROVIDED |
| 14:00 – 15:20 | National Editors’ Afternoon (1) Institutions. The Political Economy of Copyright, Dr Oren Bracha, University of Texas (US); From Local to National to International Regimes, Dr Friedemann Kawohl (Germany) |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | BREAK FOR TEA/COFFEE |
| 15:40 – 17:30 | National Editors’ Afternoon (2) Ideas. Subject Matter, Dr Joanna Kostylo, University of Cambridge (Italy); Originality, Dr Frédéric Rideau, University of Poitiers (France); Derivatives, Dr Ronan Deazley, Birmingham University (UK) |
| 17:30 –18:30 | DRINKS RECEPTION |
Programme: Thursday 20th March 2008
| 09:00 – 09:15 | COFFEE |
| 09:15 – 10:45 | Invited Papers: The Significance of Copyright History for Publishing History and Historians, Professor John Feather, Loughborough University; Visualising property in art and law Dr Katie Scott, Courtauld Institute of Art; A mongrel of early modern copyright: Scotland in European perspective, Dr Alastair Mann, Stirling University |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | COFFEE |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Invited Papers: Metaphors of Intellectual Property William St Clair, University of Cambridge;
Digging up fragments and building IP franchises, Professor Kathy Bowrey, University of New South Wales;
Perpetual Copyright: the Venetian Experiment (1780-1789), Dr Maurizio Borghi, Brunel University |
| 12:30– 13:30 | BUFFET LUNCH |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Invited Papers: “Neither bolt nor chain, iron safe nor private watchman, can prevent the theft of words”: The birth of the performing right in Britain, Dr Isabella Alexander, University of Cambridge;
Les formalités sont mortes, vive les formalités! Copyright formalities in nineteenth century Europe and their significance for current discourse, Stef van Gompel, University of Amsterdam |
| 14:30 –15:15 | Keynote Speech: The Return of the Commons - Copyright history as a common source, Professor Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, Köln University |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | BREAK FOR TEA/COFFEE |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Open Discussion: A View of Copyright History Introduced by: Professor Lionel Bently and Professor Martin Kretschmer |
| 16:30 – 16.45 | Closing Rapporteur Professor Jane Ginsburg, Columbia University |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Launch of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property |
| 17:00 | Conference Closes |
The Research Group is very grateful to the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers for providing Stationers' Hall
gratis and to Emmanuel College, Cambridge for sponsorship towards the cost of the conference. The Research Group is also very
grateful to Robin Myers and Sue Hurley for curating a unique exhibition (and catalogue) of materials. In particular, this will
feature the Stationers' Charter of 1684 and the original parchment copy of the 1710 Statute of Anne.
Proceedings of the conference will be published as R.Deazley, M.Kretschmer and L.Bently (eds.) PRIVILEGE AND PROPERTY:
ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT (CAMBRIDGE: OPEN BOOK, 2009)
Conference photos
Bently & Kretschmer with the Stationers' Charter of 1684 |
Bently & Ginsburg |
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Robin Myers & Deazley |
Pfister, Rideau & Petri |
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Mark Rose |
Cornish & Peifer |
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Feather & Deazley |
Borghi & Bracha |
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Isabella Alexander |
Rideau, Deazley and Bently |
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Katie Scott |
Joanna Kostylo |
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Friedemann Kawohl |
Stationers' Hall |
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