Save the Date for the Annual User Rights Symposium
The Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights will be holding its annual meetings and symposium from June 10-15 at American University »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ College of Law.
This year's User Rights Symposium will feature public presentations of finished or published research, feedback sessions for works-in-progress, and research planning discussions with policy advocates to set an agenda to guide investments in future scholarship.
The topic of the Symposium will be Setting a Scholarship Agenda on Copyright and the Right to Research. Subtopics will include: copyright limitations and exceptions (L&E) design; protection of L&E from contract override; human rights litigation strategies; compulsory, extended collective licenses, and fair remuneration; author rights to retention, reversion and secondary publication; empirical evidence of impact.
About the Global Network on Copyright User Rights
The NetworkÌýwas formed in 2011 by a group of leading copyright academics from around the world. The objective of the Network was originally framed in the »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, which called for “discussion of employing ‘open-ended’ limitations in national copyright legislation, in addition to specific exceptions.â€
The work of the Network focuses on the publication of research and provision of technical assistance to explain how adopting more open, flexible and general user rights – both by adopting fair use-like open, flexible, general provisions, and by increasing the openness and flexibility of specific (non-general) exceptions – can promote social and economic interests.
In 2018, the network began working with advocates at WIPO on a proposed .Ìý