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International Seminar: Intellectual property and access to knowledge. The University’s role.

The Seminar is organized by the Law School of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), and sponsored by the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, with the participation of distinguished local and international specialists. Its objective is the debate of intellectual property, its relation to the access to knowledge and the influence of technological changes. It will address three key subjects: i) access to culture, education and information through Internet; ii) copyright law in Argentina and iii) policies for the protection and dissemination of universities’ R&D results.

Place and date:

  • 6, 7 and 8 June, 2012
  • Law School, U.B.A.
  • 2263 Figueroa Alcorta Ave., Buenos Aires, Argentina

Invited speakers include:

  • Yochai Benkler (Harvard University, EEUU),
  • Christophe Geiger (Université de Strasbourg, Francia),
  • Luiz Otávio Pimentel (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil),
  • Luis Villarroel (Universidad Central de Chile),
  • Alejandra Aoun (CEIDIE-UBA),
  • Salvador Bergel (CEIDIE-UBA),
  • Eduardo Bertoni (UBA),
  • Carlos Correa (CEIDIE-UBA),
  • Guillermo Cabanellas (UdeSA),
  • Delia Lipszyc (CEIDIE-UBA),
  • Rubén Romano (Universidad Nacional del Litoral).

Key subjects:

1. Access to culture, education and information through Internet: a) Intellectual Property and Development; b) The right to culture, education, information and copyright. Relationships and balances; c) Free software, Open source, Creative Commons); d) Copyright and the public domain.

2. Copyright in Argentina: a) The system of exceptions and limitations; b) Access to protected work for academic research objectives; c) Recent legislative amendments in comparative law; d) Draft treaty for visually impaired persons and libraries.

3. Intellectual Property, R&D Policies and the University: a) The role of the University in the generation of public assets; b) Intellectual Property rights on developments generated within the University; c) Management of R&D results: Dissemination, protection, commercialization; d) Technology Transfer Offices.

Call for papers available here (in Spanish)

Registration form available here (in Spanish). Once completed, the form should be sent as an attachment file to secinvestigacion@derecho.uba.ar