At the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ficsor is a member of the roster of intellectual property experts for dispute settlement panels. At present, Dr. Ficsor is President of the Hungarian Copyright Experts Council (a 200 member advisory and arbitration body appointed by the Minister of Justice – in agreement with the Minister of National Heritage and linked to the Patent Office), Chairman of the Hungarian Copyright Forum Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the International Intellectual Property Association (ALAI), and Chairman of the Central and Eastern European Copyright Alliance (CEECA), the latter with permanent observer status at WIPO). Dr. Ficsor holds a doctor’s degree in law and political sciences from the Law Faculty of the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest. He has had courses on intellectual property and, in particular on copyright and related rights at that university as well at the Pázmány Péter University of Budapest.

He has written numerous articles and books on various copyright issues, particularly on the impact of new technologies (especially digital technology and the Internet) on copyright and on collective management of copyright and related rights, and participates in a number of seminars, symposiums, workshops as a speaker throughout the world.

· His three most recent books are:

· "The Law of Copyright and the Internet - The 1996 WIPO Treaties, their Interpretation and Implementation", Oxford University Press, 2002;

· "Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights", WIPO publication, 2003;

· "Guide to the Copyright and related Rights Treaties Administered by WIPO and Glossary of Copyright and Related Rights  Terms", 2004.

STEF VAN GOMPEL

LUCIE M.C.R. GUIBAULT

 

Her interests further include database protection, computer software and Internet issues, as well as contractual matters relating to information. She recently published an article in the e-Copyright Bulletin (April-June 2005) on collective rights management in Europe. Further work on collective rights management currently includes the preparation of a paper, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, on the co-existence of Creative Commons licenses and collective rights management. In 1997, Ms. Guibault wrote a study sponsored by ALAI Canada entitled “Les ententes entre les auteurs ou artistes interprètes et les sociétés de gestion de droits dans le monde: analyse comparative de certaines dispositions”.Besides her research activities, Ms. Guibault is also in charge of the coordination of the annual IViR International Copyright Law Summer Course.

She is a member of the Dutch Group of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale and correspondent for Canada and the Netherlands for the German legal periodical Computer Law Review International (formerly Computer und Recht International). Before joining the Institute for Information Law in 1997, Ms Guibault worked in private practice in Montreal, in the intellectual property section of one of the major Canadian law firms. Prior to that, she also gained experience as a policy analyst for the Canadian Government at the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate of the Department of Industry in Ottawa.

Lucie Guibault is Senior Researcher in copyright law at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Born and raised in Montréal, Canada, she studied law at the Université de Montréal [LL.B. (1988) and LL.M. (1995)] and received in January 2002 her doctorate’s degree from the University of Amsterdam, where she defended her thesis on Copyright Limitations and Contracts: An Analysis of the Contractual Overridability of Limitations on Copyright [The Hague, London, Boston, Kluwer Law International, 2002]. Ms. Guibault specializes in international and comparative copyright and intellectual property law, and takes part in national and international conferences.

At the end of his studies, he wrote his master’s thesis on the regulation of collective management societies in Europe. Before his law education, he studied Music Management at the Fontys business college of higher education in Tilburg, where he graduated in 1999. During an internship at the Dutch collective management society SENA (the Foundation for the Exploitation of Neighbouring Rights) he conducted research in the legal framework and the distribution regulations of collective management societies in 7 EU Member States (the Netherlands, France, the UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Sweden) with respect to the right to equitable remuneration for performing artists. Currently he is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam and fellowship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Taw Law in Munich. His doctoral (Ph.D.) research project focuses on the prohibition on copyright formalities.

Prof. LAURENCE HELFER

              

During the 2003-2004 academic year, he was a research fellow and visiting professor at Princeton University in the Program in Law and Public Affairs, where he pursued a research project on “Exit, Escape, and Commitment in International Governance.”
Professor Helfer has published numerous law review articles and lectured widely on international human rights, international intellectual property law, and international litigation and dispute settlement. He serves as an expert advisor to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which recently published his monograph, Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: International Legal Regimes and Policy Options for National Governments. Professor Helfer also provides advice and assistance to numerous non-governmental organizations that engage in human rights advocacy.

 TARJA KOSKINEN –OLSSON

 

              

Mrs. Tarja Koskinen-Olsson works as an international intellectual property consultant specialized in rights management. She currently lives in Sweden. She was elected as President of IFRRO (the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations) in 1993 which post she held till 1999. She was nominated as Honorary President of IFRRO in 2001. Tarja Koskinen-Olsson is actively engaged in development cooperation throughout the world. She lectures at the Sweden/WIPO Training Course on Copyright and Related Rights in the Global Economy, organised by the Patent and Registration Office (PRV) and financed by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).

From 1987 to 2003, Mrs. Koskinen-Olsson served as the Chief Executive Officer of KOPIOSTO (Joint Finnish Copyright Organization); multidisciplinary organisation dealing with reprography and secondary use of audiovisual works.

From 1972 to 1986, she held several posts in TEOSTO (the Finnish Composers’ Copyright Bureau), including the local representative of NCB (Nordisk Copyright Bureau). Tarja Koskinen-Olsson is a co-founder of the Anti-Piracy Center in Finland and a Member of its Board in 1979 – 2003. She has been an active member of the Finnish copyright community, as Member of the Board of the Finnish Copyright Association (Member of ALAI) and the Finnish Copyright Institute in 1989 - 2004.

Prof. GLYNN LUNNEY

Glynn S. Lunney is a Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, and is presently working to complee his Ph.D. in Economics at Tulane. Professor Lunney is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of intellectual property who has written extensively on copyright, patents, and trademarks, as well as the Just Compensation requirement of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

 

KOJI OKMURA

LL.B. (Kyoto University), LL.M. (Harvard Law School), Associate Professor of Law at Kanagawa University, Admitted to the New York State Bar Mr. Koji Okumura is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Business Administration at Kanagawa University, where he teaches courses in intellectual property law, international business law and business ethics.

Prior to becoming a member of the Faculty, Prof. Okumura worked for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) as a member of Legal Affairs Department, and, during his career at Panasonic, worked on legal matters including copyright, trade secrets, internet technology, high-tech licensing and Digital Rights Management (DRM).

He received his LL.B. degree from Kyoto University in 1991 and LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School (HLS) in 1998. After graduation from HLS, he was a Visiting Scholar at East Asian Legal Studies at HLS for 1998 -1999. Prof. Okumura also served as a member of International Affairs Subcommittee, Copyright Committee of Cultural Council of Japan for 2004 to 2005.

Karina Correa Pereira is an LLD candidate at the University of Ottawa. She has earned her LL.L. from the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie in São Paulo, Brazil; a Specialization in Business Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, São Paulo; and a Master of Laws (LL.M) with concentration in Law and Technology from the University of Ottawa. She has also completed continuing education courses on tax law and telecommunications law, both at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo. She is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association, Section São Paulo.

KARINA CORREA PEREIRA 

     

NATHALIE PIASKOWSKI

 

     

Nathalie Piaskowski est titulaire de deux DEA, l’un en droit commercial obtenu à l’université de Paris I, l’autre en droit international public à l’université de Genève. Elle a commencé sa carrière comme conseiller juridique à LA CINQ en 1987 dans le secteur du droit des médias, puis l’a poursuivi à France 2 dans le secteur du droit d’auteur et des droits voisins. Elle a ensuite exercé ses fonctions dans la production cinématographique, successivement au sein de PATHE CINEMA puis au niveau international à la FIAPF en qualité d’adjointe au directeur général. Nathalie Piaskowski a également exercé les fonctions de directrice juridique d’une société de gestion des droits de producteurs de phonogrammes (la SCPP), fonctions dans lesquelles elle a notamment développé de nouveaux secteurs de perception , en particulier concernant l’utilisation de phonogrammes par les exploitants de nouveaux médias (sites internet, bornes interactives, etc.) et superviser une structure antipiraterie.

Elle est aujourd’hui installée comme consultante à Genève et a fourni ses services à de nombreuses entreprises du secteur culturel, parmi lesquelles l’UER (Union Européenne de Radio-Télévisions) et l’UIE (Union Internationale des Editeurs). Parallèlement, Nathalie PIASKOWSKI a été secrétaire général du département audiovisuel du CREDA ( Centre de Recherche de Droit Audiovisuel de l’Université de Paris I). Dans ce cadre, elle a notamment dirigé la chronique trimestrielle de droit audiovisuel des « Petites Affiches ». Elle a également coordonné la troisième édition du Lamy Audiovisuel et participé à de nombreux colloques portant sur le droit d’auteur et les droits voisins.

ANG KWEE TIANG

Prof. PAUL TORREMANS  Current position

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Dr. MIHALY  FICSOR

Karina practiced law in Brazil for four years. During this period, she focused particularly on intellectual property and telecommunications law, mainly representing private companies before governmental authorities with regards to administrative and competition issues. In Canada, she conducted researches for various professors at the University of Ottawa and worked on a project for the use and reuse of learning objects for Creative Commons Canada.

 Contributors

Mario Bouchard is general counsel with the Copyright Board of Canada . A member of the Quebec bar, he holds a master’s degree from l 'Université Laval. He was legislative counsel to the Quebec National Assembly, teaching associate in Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Birmingham (U.K.), research coordinator of the administrative law project of the Law Reform Commission of Canada, where he participated to the drafting of the Commission's report on administrative agencies, wine broker, counsel to the  Canadian Department of Justice and head of legal services at the Immigration and Refugee Board.

He has appeared before the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has authored several papers dealing with administrative law and class actions. As General Counsel to the Copyright Board of Canada, Mr. Bouchard has been involved in many files dealing with copyright law reform and new technologies, including the proposed tariff for the use of music over the Internet.

MARIO BOUCHARD

Jörg Reinbothe obtained his legal training at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland) und Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA). He passed the Final University exam and bar exam in Munich and holds the degrees of a Dr.iur. (Ph.D.) from the University of Munich and a M.C.L. (Master of Comparative Law) from the University of Michigan.

Jörg is author or co-author of numerous articles and several books on intellectual property with a particular focus on collective rights management. He is the author of the comprehensive legal commentary on the German law on collective rights management, which forms part of the renowned commentary on German copyright edited by Gerhard Schricker, now in its third edition (2006). Jörg teaches copyright and industrial property at the University of Saarbrücken (Germany), which has awarded him an honorary Professorship ('Honorarprofessor'). In 2003, he was awarded the title of “Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Minister of Culture.

Throughout his career, Jörg has dealt with copyright issues both as an academic scholar and in practice. His responsibilities have included the structuring of German copyright law as an official in the German Federal Ministry of Justice (1978 to 1983).  From 1986 to 1988 he was Counsellor in the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany at the United Nations in New York (USA). In 1988, Jörg joined the European Commission in Brussels, where he has masterminded over many years the drafting, adoption and implementation of several EU Directives in the field of copyright. From 1996 to 2004, Jörg was Head of the Copyright Unit in DG Internal Market of the European Commission.

From the early days, Jörg has actively been involved in international negotiations on intellectual property: between 1988 and 1993, he played a major role as EU delegate in the negotiations of the TRIPs Agreement in the GATT/Uruguay Round.
He was also Head of the EU delegation at the WIPO Diplomatic Conferences of 1996 (adoption of the WIPO 'Internet Treaties' WCT and WPPT) and 2000 (on Audiovisual Performances) and in the negotiations on the new WIPO Treaty for the protection of broadcasting organisations.

A national of Hungary, in 1975 Dr. Ficsor became Deputy Director General, and, in 1977, Director General of the Hungarian Copyright Bureau working also as the Hungarian authors’ society (ARTISJUS). In the latter capacity, he served until May 1985, and was also a member, and during the last four years the Vice Chairman of the Executive Bureau of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC). Between 1985 and 1999, Dr. Ficsor worked, first, as Director and, then, from 1992 as Assistant Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in charge of copyright and related rights. He was responsible for a great number of important projects. Inter alia, he is recognized as having played a decisive role in the preparation, negotiation and adoption of the so-called „Internet treaties:” the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT).

Lawrence R. Helfer (B.A. Yale University 1987; M.P.A. Princeton University 1992; J.D. New York University School of Law 1992) is a Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at Vanderbilt University Law School. After graduating from law school, Professor Helfer clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He then practiced with the law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., in New York City, before moving to Loyola Law School in Los Angeles where he taught for seven years and most recently held the position of Professor of Law and Lloyd Tevis Fellow.

Prof. Dr.  Jörg REINBOTHE

Mr Ang is the Regional Director & Regional Counsel of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) for the Asia-Pacific region. He also supervises the work of BIEM for the region. CISAC is a non-profit, non-governmental, international organisation, established in 1926, whose objective is the protection and advancement of the economic and moral interests of intellectual creators worldwide. As the representative of CISAC for the Asia-Pacific region since 1989, Mr Ang has been directly involved in the creation of numerous collective administration organisations in countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, China, Chinese Taipei, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Since the establishment of the BIEM Asia Pacific Regional Office in 2002, Mr. Ang has also supervised its activities in the field of collective management of the reproduction rights in musical works in the region. In the course of his work, he has also to, on behalf of authors, composers and publishers, liase with governments in the region with regard to the enactment and amendment of copyright laws. He served as Advisor to the Management Committee of the Board of COMPASS from 1989 till 1997; advisor to the Board of MACP in Malaysia from 1989 to 1996; is currently an advisor to the Board of Directors of KCI in Indonesia, the Board of Trustees of FILSCAP in the Philippines, has served as a member of the Complaints Committee of MUST in Chinese Taipei since the inception of the society in 1999, and is a director of the MCT-Phonorights Joint Venture in Thailand.
Mr Ang holds an honours degree in law from the National University of Singapore as well as a Master of Laws from the University of London where he specialised in commercial and intellectual property laws. He also obtained a post-graduate diploma in UK, USA and EU Copyright Laws. In his private capacity, Mr Ang was the Co-General Editor of the Asia Intellectual Property Reports (AIPR), a regional law report of cases on copyrights, trademarks, patents and related intellectual property rights published by Butterworths .

· City Solicitors Educational Trust Professor of Intellectual Property Law, School of Law,     University of Nottingham; and

· Docent (Professor of Private International Law), Faculty of Law, University of Ghent

PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS ( 2003-2005)

· Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law, fourth edition by P. Torremans, Oxford University Press, (2005), 613pp.

· Copyright and Human Rights, collection of essays in the Information Law Series, vol. 14, Kluwer Law International, edited by P. Torremans, (2004), 181pp.

Cross Border Insolvencies in EU, English and Belgian Law, Kluwer Law International, European Monographs series vol 39, (2002), 255pp.

Articles (2003-2005)

· 'IMS Health or the Question whether Copyright Still Deserves a Specific Approach in a Market Economy?', in L. Takeyama, W. Gordon and R. Towse (eds), Developments in the Economics of Copyright: Research and Analysis, Edward Elgar (2005), pp.142-158 (with A. Narciso);

· 'Authorship, ownership and works created by employees : Which law applies ?', [2005] EIPR 220-224;

· « Lettre d’Angleterre », [2004] 11 Propriétés intellectuelles 690-696;

· ' Private International Law Aspects of IPRs in Genetics – Bioethics, Public Policy and Mandatory Rules', in S.K. Verma and R. Mittal (eds), Intellectual Property Rights : A Global Vision (ATRIP Papers 2002-2003), Indian Law Institute (New Delhi), (2004), 79-100;

· 'Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Electronic Commerce', in S.K. Verma and R. Mittal (eds), Intellectual Property Rights : A Global Vision (ATRIP Papers 2002-2003), Indian Law Institute (New Delhi), (2004), 385-429;

· «La Lettre d’Angleterre », [2003] 37 Revue Juridique Thèmis 407-427 (with P. Lorber);

· 'International Private Law in Relation to Copyright : Agreements Pertaining to Intellectual Property Rights', in Paul Brügger (ed), Copyright – Internet World, ALAI (2003), 178-185;

« Lettre d’Angleterre », [2003] 9 Propriétés intellectuelles 467-472.

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