VIPP News & Events
Feb 01, 2012 from 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM
A Hyatt Fund event sponsored by the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Association
USA Today: Internet community cheers power of protest - January 19, 2012 - Yesterday technology companies staged an online blackout to protest two related bills that would crack down on websites that use copyrighted materials and sell counterfeit goods. Google says more than 4.5 million people signed its petition online protesting the legislation as word spread to casual Web users who may not have previously paid attention. Daniel Gervais, FedEx Research Professor of Law and co-director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, is quoted.
Toronto Globe and Mail: Opinion: How Canada can be an innovation leader - November 30, 2011 - What Canada needs at this critical juncture is a conversation about how to generate more economic impacts from innovation and creativity, writes Daniel Gervais, 2011/12 FedEx Research Professor and co-director of the Intellectual Property Program at Vanderbilt.
Do We Still Need Record Labels: A Global Debate - November 15, 2011
This pro/con panel discussion sponsored by the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program features six intellectual property law scholars, practitioners and industry executives:
- Andrew Christie, Davies Collison Cave Chair of Intellectual Property, Melbourne Law School
- Brian Day, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Lital Helman, Kernochan Center Fellow, Columbia Law School
- Terry Hemming, CEO, Provident Music Group (Sony Music Entertainment)
- Timothy Lee, Ars Technica
- Andrew Pollock, Mashalls & Dent/The Dead Leaves, Melbourne Australia
The Tennessean: EMI sale to rattle Music Row - November 12, 2011 - Friday’s surprising news that music industry giant EMI Group would be split in half and sold to two of its biggest competitors leaves the fate and future direction of EMI’s influential Nashville music institutions in the air. While listeners are unlikely to notice much of a difference at first, consolidating ownership into the hands of three major record labels instead of four means those three companies will have a larger hand in deciding how music is sold to consumers going forward, says Daniel Gervais, co-director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program.
National Post (Canada): Pricing patents is a tough call, conference told - October 7, 2011 - Estimating the cost of taking an invention from idea to issued patent is easy. But determining what that intellectual property is worth, once the patent is approved, is anyone’s guess. The mystery of patent valuation was one of the topics discussed at a two-day conference here on Canada’s IP policy, hosted by the Canadian International Council, a Toronto-based think-tank. Daniel Gervais, professor of international law and director of the Intellectual Property Program, presented at the conference and is quoted.
The Tennessean: Tennesseans face new Internet rules aimed at curbing piracy, bullying - August 7, 2011 - The Internet habits of Tennessee consumers are about to be subject to a lot more scrutiny, thanks to new laws and industry-imposed regulations being put into place this summer. The new rules pit proponents of an unregulated Internet and consumer privacy against business interests seeking to ensure that people don’t steal content online. Daniel Gervais, director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program and professor of law, is quoted.
The Tennessean: U.S. leadership role is in doubt - August 3, 2011 - Unless Congress moves quickly to enact sensible legislation that signals to the world the U.S. dollar is stable and dependable and also supports the innovation needed to fuel economic growth, the U.S. may lose its dominant economic position, writes Daniel Gervais, professor of law.
Daniel Gervais, professor of law and co-director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, delivers keynote address "The Landscape of Collective Management Schemes," Collective Management of Copyright: Solution or Sacrifice? Symposium, Columbia Law School, New York.
2011 Fenwick & West Lecture - "New Developments and the Future of EU Copyright Law," Estelle Derclaye, Associate Professor & Reader in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Nottingham, School of Law, United Kingdom
Symposium: "Where Do We Go from Here? The Evolution of Entertainment Law and Industry in the New World" - Panels covering the topics of Business Models, Collective Management, United States Exceptionalism in Copyright, and Enforcement will be offered.
“Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Battle of Sidamo, a Battle over a Key Coffee Trademark," a lecture by Andrew Christie, University of Melbourne - Andrew Christie was the founding director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), a national centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property.
Gervais establishes www.tripsagreement.net to serve as TRIPS resource repository
Release Date: Jan 31, 2012
New site offers TRIPS resources as well as a database of U.S. and Canadian copyright cases
The article “Fair Use, Fair Dealing, Fair Principles: Efforts to Conceptualize Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright” by intellectual property law scholar Daniel Gervais has been judged as one of the best intellectual property law review articles published in the previous year. The article is selected for inclusion in the 2011 edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, an anthology published by Thomson Reuters (West).