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CopyCamp 2016: detailed programme
DAY 1
10:00 – 12:00 Workshops
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break (free time)
13:00 – 14:00 Registration
ROOM A
14:00 – 14:45 Opening
Jarosław Lipszyc, Modern Poland Foundation
Arnd Haller, Google
Michał Kanownik, ZIPSEE Digital Poland
15:00 – 16:30 Session 1
Keynote:
Olga Goriunova: Data, profiles and digital subjects: ownership in the age of machine learning
Jody Wood: Identity as Privilege
Jacek Dehnel: Recycling culture
Tomasz Rychlicki and Grzegorz Pacek: The Two that would (NOT) monopolize the alphabet
Łukasz Kozak: Louis Wain, cats and Konopnicka. How Polish literature for children classics were written.
Anna Smolar: Producing the play Henrietta Lacks
16:30 -17:00 Coffee break
17:00 -18:30 Session 2
Keynote:
Mikołaj Iwański: Reflections on the future of private copying levies in the light of struggle for artists’ social rights
Damir Filipovic: Digital Europe Remuneration systems in Europe
Alicja Peszkowska: Are we framed? Creative Commons as an artistic framework.
Łukasz Czernicki: Taxmen talk IP and what we may learn from it
Kamil Jaczyński and Michał Kożuchowski: Facing reality, or ZAiKS (and other collecting societies) in musician’s eyes
Witold Chomiczewski: Screen scraping and data aggregation – a great idea for a legally risky business
18:30 – 19:00 Coffee break
19:00 – 20:00 Session 3
Krzysztof Izdebski: right to Peaceful Assembly
Katarzyna Lejman: May authors of Let’s plays and video games casts have a peaceful mind?
Aleksandra Maciejewicz: Illegal tweets, emoji, snapchat filters and hashtags
Magdalena Szecówka: Creative Commons marketing – free and open licenses in promotion of firms and individuals
20:00 – Closing
ROOM B
14:00 – 14:45 Opening and plenary (transmission from Room A)
15:00 – 16:30 Session 1
Keynote:
Rufus Pollock: „Why does making an open information age matter?”:
Dimitar Dimitrov: Public Policy Ping Pong:https://youtu.be/W0KotmoL3Hg
Teresa Nobre: Best Case Scenarios for Copyright: national exceptions to copyright
Diego Naranjo: Copyfails
Agata Janeczek: How to play with copyright law
Iga Bałos: Saved by the bell: how to teach about copyright?
16:30 -17:00 Coffee break
17:00 -18:30 Session 2
Keynote:
Jonas Holm: The case for new legislative approaches to copyright for libraries, education and big data
Stephen Wyber: Between Piracy and the Privatisation of Knowledge – Libraries in International Copyright Debates
Anikó Grad-Gyenge: Open Access and copyright in Hungary – an academic point of view
Petra Pejšová: Using CC licences in repositories in the Czech Republic
Nicolaie Constantinescu: Open Access is Open Science is Open Licensing
Ondřej Neumajer: Open education in the Digital Strategy for Education in The Czech Republic
18:30 – 19:00 Coffee break
19:00 – 20:00 Session 3
Anna Gruhn: Evidence-based innovation policy making?
Kamil Śliwowski: Open resources – what will grow on the ashes of textbooks?
Klaudia Grabowska: „Openness as a tactic supporting digital strategies for cultural institutions. Openess Framework.”:
Xawery Konarski: LAM re-use – old and new regulation in Poland
20:00 – Closing
DAY 2
10:00 – 14:00 Workshops
12:00 – 13:00 Book premiere „All rights reserved. History of copyright debates, 1469–1928” by Konrad Gliściński – author talks about the book with Iga Bałos, Anna Gruhn and Jarosław Lipszyc
13:30 – 14:30 Registration
14:00 – 14:30 Lunch break (free time)
ROOM A
14:30 -14:35 Opening
14:35 – 15:30 Session 1
Zbigniew Zbikowski: Joint authorship as a great unknown
Krystyna Antoszkiewicz: Copyright in anticommunist underground in the eyes of a guerilla publisher – where we were, where we should have been
Małgorzata Ciepłuch: Can computer program be an author? Some remarks about computer-generated music
Sonia Wronkowska: Remix in historical music and how to tackle it
Paweł Leszczyński: Is there a free beer recipe?
15:30 -16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 2
Keynote:
Therese Comodini Cachia: A European copyright fit for the digital age
Anton Skreko: Reforming Copyright for Digital Single Market
Stef van Gompel: „Being pragmatic: Copyright lawmaking in an evidence-based world”:
Matej Gera: Grey area” between exclusivity and exceptions: Scope of exclusive rights in the context of national and European Union lawmaking
Tito Rendas: „Copyright, Technology and the CJEU: An empirical study”:
Lisa Macklem: Does Culture Belong in a Trade Deal: Finding a Better Balance in the Regulation of Intellectual Property
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 19:30 Session 3
Keynote:
Agustin Reyna: How to tackle geo-blocking in the European Union from a Single Market perspective?
Mikhail Volchak: Let’s imagine that copyright is not harmonised
Ana Ramalho: A new neighboring right for publishers: is this EU’s bone to throw?
Justyna Nykiel: Copyright and sampling
Krzysztof Garstka: Pick ‘n’ Mix ‘n’ Filter – how should the EU law regulate content filtering systems aimed at copyright infringement in cyberspace?
Alexandros Nousias: Datafication, Copyright and Creative Commons: Towards platforms of digital dignity
19:30 Closing
ROOM B
14:30 -14:35 Opening
14:35 – 15:30 Session 1
Michał Przymusiński: New business models versus new technologies
David Felipe Alvarez-Amezquita: Protecting the author through fundamental rights, a comparative perspective from some Latin American scenarios
Michael Morris: Why Coffeehouses need to be concerned about liability for their patron’s WI-FI usage
Bernd Justin Jütte: A New Wave of Sampling Cases – Appropriation in the US and Europe
Joanna Potęga: Internet social campaigns for building awareness on the copyright law. Comparison of the Legal Culture and the Right to Culture actions
15:30 -16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 2
Keynote:
Konrad Gliściński: Copyright debates
Marek Rosiński: Appointment of specialised IP courts in Poland – necessary element of an ecosystem supporting innovation
Samuel Ugwumba: „Re-focusing Cultural Works As the Core Subject Matter of Copyright Law”:
Aleksandra Drożdż: Limits of copyright protection of conceptual art
István Harkai: Copyright Questions in Computer Games and the New Models of Distribution
Justyna Tokarzewska: Art about art. Copyright and art appropriation
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 19:30 Session 3
Keynote:
Michal Dubovan: Collective Management Directive – Czech implementation
Peter Csaba Lábody: Implemetation of the CRM directive into Hungarian law
Peter Munkacsi: Historical Developments of the Copyright Law in Hungary from the 1970’s
Dániel G. Szabó: Copyright as an Exemption in Freedom of Information Law – Hungary and Other Examples
Jan Vobořil: Creative Commons licenses in the Czech republic – 7 years in use
19:30 Closing
CopyCamp 2016: speakers
David Felipe Alvarez-Amezquita – PhD student at the School of Law / The University of Nottingham. Career researching and teaching Intellectual Property Law, History of Law, Law and Methodology at some Colombian universities. Legal advisor for Copyright at CERLALC-UNESCO and Head of the Register Office at the National Copyright Directorate in Colombia. Law Degree and Master Degree on History (Meritorious): National University of Colombia; Specialization Degree on Intellectual Property Law: Externado University.
Krystyna Antoszkiewicz – born in Warsaw, graduated from the Architecture Department at the Warsaw University of Technology. She also has a degree in marketing from the Warsaw School of Economics. Activist of the underground Resistance Groups “Solidarni” and “Rytm” Publishing House (a.k.a. Hanna Egier). Author of that publisher’s logo, “Kurier Mazowsza” journal vignette, 3 series of post stamps, covers and graphics of books. Technical editor and proofreader, responsible for perforating stamps, editing of films. She was a custodian of the Mazowsze legalisation archives, lector in broadcasts published by so-called “gadały” (guerilla radio). After the Round Table owner of a design company Wizjart, designer, graphic designer, architect, investment project manager, small housing, interiors, trademarks, packaging series, leaflets, posters. Currently information security office in SINEVIA Sp. z o.o.. Activist – Towarzystwo Rozwoju Pedagogki Rudolfa Stainera (treasurer), Towarzystwo Kultury Żydowskiej Beit, Fundacja “Salon 101” (Chairwoman), Stowarzyszenie Wolnego Słowa (member of the Board). Descendant of a family with six generations of painters, sculptors, architects, musicans, professors, inventors.
Iga Bałos – doctor of law, specialist in the field of intellectual property protection. She is an assistant professor at AFM Krakow University, where she is also a copyright law expert for the e-Learning Centre. In terms of her professional practice she negotiates and draws up film production contracts. She is an author of many scientific and popular science publications, including a book „Prawo dla filmowców” (“Law for Filmmakers”). Member of the research centre – The Allerhand Institute.
Witold Chomiczewski – specializes in the new technologies law. He has an extensive experience in providing legal services to the e-Commerce entrepreneurs. He advises companies dealing with Internet marketing and aggregation of data. He supports Internet entrepreneurs in the cases related to the responsibility for foreign content. Co-author of commentaries on the acts: on electronic services, consumer rights and protection of databases. Expert of the Chamber of the Electronic Economy. Chieff Editor of Portal Prawa IT.
Małgorzata Ciepłuch – graduated form the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and law department of Warsaw University. Currently she is a PhD student at two departments, law and cultural studies, at the University of Gdańsk. Her main research interest is copyright law in the context of protection of musicians, in particular, relations between musical and legal cultures. Since 2010 she offers legal support for the creative industry.
Therese Comodini Cachia – a lawyer by profession working in the field of human rights since 1997. She has been representing victims of human rights violations as well as advising non-governmental organisations. Dr. Comodini Cachia is a lecturer at the Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta and lectured at the University of Utrecht, in Holland and at the Europa-Viadrina University in Germany. Member of the European Parliament since May 2014, where she is a member of the Culture, Education, Youth Policy, Media and Sport Committee (CULT), the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) and also serves on the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI).
Nicolaie Constantinescu – member of the ANBPR’s Governing Board and an Information Architect at kosson.ro. Library and Information Science is the field where he started his professional developing. He participated in many projects and discovered the need for a renewed system for dissemination of research output, lead in the end to becoming one voice for the Open Access in Romania and a firm believer in Free and Open Source philosophy.
Łukasz Czernicki – expert in taxation of intellectual property, IP freak of its social, economic, cultural and historical dimensions. Biophysist.
Jacek Dehnel (born in 1980 in Gdańsk). Poet, writer, translator, painter. He published seven poetry books, five translations and twelve of his own prose (two volumes of stories, two of short prose on photos and maps, journal, guide, story of a mid-war tabloid, collection of mini stories and four novels). Laureate of the Kościelscy Prize (2005), Polityka Passport (2006) et al. Four times nominated for the Nike prize. Lives in Warsaw (fot. Cezary Rucki).
Dimitar Dimitrov – political scientist & coffee lover. Free Knowledge Ambassador of the Wikimedia Movement to the European Union.
Aleksandra Drożdż – intellectual property and personal data protection lawyer. Founder and author of an academic program of an interdisciplinary university society of Faculty of Law and Administration at University of Warsaw. Alumna of courses in the field of intellectual property at Hugo Grotius Center for Intellectual Property Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Harvard University.
Michal Dubovan – Senior Councillor at the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic responsible for copyright legislation and supervision of collective management organisations. His area of expertise includes IPR enforcement on national, European as well as international level. He represents Czech Republic in the EC Expert Group on the enforcement of IP rights. He is also a national trainer for the EU IPO Orphan Works Database. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague where he continues his studies with the focus on the concept of originality in copyright law.
Damir Filipovic – started his career in public sector, in the Ministry of Communication, Post and Telecom Administration in Croatia, where he started in 1998, continuing in National Regulatory Authority in telecommunications, as advisor in telecommunications and radiocommunications as well as in licencing department. Afterwards between 2000 and 2008, he started successful career in private telecommunications operators, subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom and Telekom Austria in Croatia, working on various positions within network planning department, public and regulatory affairs as well as in wholesale business activities, as head of those departments. In 2008, Damir joined Telekom Austria Representative Office in Bruxelles, taking care for spectrum issues, environment, health and m-commerce issues on behalf of the Group, together with activities related to providing support to South-East Europe operations in Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia, internally and towards European institutions. In 2010 Damir became Director Public Affairs of DIGITALEUROPE, the European Industry Association that is the voice of the Information and Communications Technology and Consumer Electronics industries in Europe, which he joins from his private consultancy Intelligent Consulting, where he provided support both to governmental and private sector in telecom industry on various regulatory issues, as well as provide expert information and advice on issues related on EU legislation, institution and political process. In January 2012, Damir has joined newly formed Samsung EU Affairs office in Bruxelles, as EU Technology and Regulatory Policy manager, responsible for issues related to digital economy and product and technology. As of January 2016, Damir re-joined DIGITALEUROPE as Director for Digital Economy.
Krzysztof Garstka – Senior Researcher at the University of East Anglia. Has recently defended his PhD (Law) thesis at the University of Nottingham. His research area is focused on IP and IT law, and he holds a particular interest in online enforcement mechanisms tied to copyright, trademarks, privacy and reputation. He presented his research on several European conferences and published articles in English and Polish. He is the UK contributor to the World Intermediary Liability Map project.
Matej Gera – Slovak-born IP / ICT lawyer who is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom. He gained his general legal education at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, where he first encountered the area of ICT / IP law. After successful completion, he was admitted to LL.M. programme EULISP, studying jointly at Leibniz Universität in Germany and KU Leuven in Belgium, improving his knowledge of ICT / IP law. Previously, he has been a part of the legal team in Free Software Foundation Europe, where he worked on the issues relating to open source licensing. He is also an executive member of Slovak think-tank European Information Society Institute, an independent non-profit organization which focuses on the overlap of technology, law & the information society. His research interests are predominantly in intellectual property and copyright particularly. Additionally, he is also active in other areas of ICT law research such as privacy / personal data protection and e-Government.
Konrad Gliściński – doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Civil Law of the Jagiellonian University, in house lawyer at the Jagiellońskie Centrum Innowacji sp. z o.o., analytic at Kalecki Foundation and lecturer at the H. Grotius Centre of Intellectual Property Laws. Graduated from the Law and Administration Department of the Jagiellonian University and completed post-graduate studies in corporate law at the Warsaw School of Economics. Graduate of Top500 Innovators programme at Stanford, on management and commercialization of scientific research. In 2010 Konrad was awarded the prize by the Minister of Science and Higher Education in a competition for masters’ theses organised by the Polish Patent Office.
Stef van Gompel – senior researcher in IP law at IViR, Amsterdam. In 2014, the Dutch NWO awarded him a Veni grant to conduct research on ‘The challenge of evidence-based intellectual property law reform: legal pragmatism meets doctrinal legal reasoning’. He is secretary of the Copyright Committee that advises the Dutch Minister of Justice on copyright, chairman of the Dutch Study group on copyright history, board member of the Dutch group of AIPPI and editorial board member of the journal AMI.
Olga Goriunova – Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (Routledge, 2012), editor of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (Bloomsbury, 2014) and co-editor of Readme. Software Art and Cultures (University of Aarhus Press, 2004). She is a co-founder and co-editor of Computational Culture, A Journal of Software Studies (computationalculture.net). She has also worked as a curator, co-organizing, among other, Readme, software art festivals, 2001-2005, Runme.org software art repository and curating a series of exhibitions Fun and Software in 2010-2011. In 2015, she was a Fellow at the University of Leuphana’s Digital Cultures Research Lab. In 2014-2016 she is part of the Posthumanities research network (funded by the Swedish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences). She is also a member of the Visual Social Media Lab, working on the project Picturing the Social: transforming our understanding of images in social media and Big Data research (funded by Economic and Social Research Council, UK). She is currently working on a monograph on digital subjects and on a co-authored book on environmental ethico-aesthetics.
Mateusz Górski – a lover of words, fascinated by the power of a well constructed message. As a journalist, he collaborated with several radio stations, to then give up the airwaves for marketing. Active reader, voice experimenting with visible (audible?) Pleasure. Addicted to yerba mate, looking for more and more strange species and blends. In Patronite he is involved in taking care of artists and introducing them to the world of digital patronage.
Klaudia Grabowska – Head of Open Culture (Open GLAM) Program (since 2014) in Centrum Cyfrowe, since 2007 involved with Creative Commons Poland. OpenGLAM and Open Access activist, initiating projects within the intersection of humanities and technology. Specializes in supporting cultural institutions and other organizations in implementing open policies, as well as OpenGLAM advocacy. Institute for Open Leadership Fellow (2015) and Mentor (2016).
Dr. habil. Aniko Grad-Gyenge – Head of the Department of Civil and Roman Law at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest. Vicepresident of the Hungarian Copyright Forum, member of the ALAI Group Association and of the Copyright Expert Board. Formerly, she was the head of unit at the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement as well as the head of research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Legal Sciences. Her research focuses on copyright and media law in the context of audiovisual archives, copyright limitations vis. human rights
Anna Gruhn – Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Wrocław University where she’s defending her doctoral thesis entitled The commercialization of science as a factor of innovation policy in Poland. The effectiveness of the adopted solutions.
Dr. Arnd Haller – responsible for the legal affairs of Google in Northern and Central Europe at Google Germany GmbH, and has been working as counsel for the company since 2005. He is a member of the Central Management Team and serves as Google´s youth protection officer in Germany. His main responsibilities revolve around the law of intellectual property, Copyright and Competition Law, liability and privacy issues. Arnd Haller is admitted to the bar and has several years of experience at the international Firm Taylor Wessing in Hamburg, advising clients from media, IT and Internet industries. He studied law in Würzburg, Münster, Hamburg and Granada (Spain) and graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Münster. Dr. Haller also completed Research projects in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and traineeships at the Higher Regional Court of Lübeck, the German Embassy in La Paz (Bolivia) and the Council of the European Union in New York (USA).
István Harkai – PhD Student at the University of Szeged, Institute of Comparative Law Studies. Runs a blog Copyright21 http://copy21.com/.
Jonas Holm – an intellectual property legal counsel specialising in Copyright. He is currently legal counsel of Stockholm University and legal advisor to Stockholm University Library. In the latter capacity Jonas chairs LIBER’s (Association of European Research Libraries) Working Group for Copyright. LIBER is an active stakeholder in the ongoing European Union Copyright reform work.
Mikołaj Iwański – economist, head of History and Theory of Art Institute at the Painting and New Media Department of the Academy of Arts in Szczecin. In 2012 defended his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Economy of the University of Economy in Poznań about circumstances of contemporary art market development in Poland. Member of the secretariat of the Citizents’ Forum of Contemporary Art. Co-editor of Black Book of Polish Artists (2015)
Krzysztof Izdebski – lawyer and activist. He serves as a Policy Director in ePaństwo Foundation. For many years he deals with openness and transparency of public life. He is primarily interested in mutual interactions of various human rights, goods and interests. He is of the opinion that there is no one good mean of introducing the change. For him, legal activities are of the same importance as street protests.
Kamil Jaczyński – journalist, activist, lecturer, public relations & music marketing specialist. Executive director in rap record label called Wielkie Joł. Member of the Polish Phonographic Academy. One of the authors of the “Anthology of Polish Rap” released by the National Centre for Culture. Initiator of a nationwide series of panel discussions “Piracy, whether fair use” about copyright and intellectual property.
Agata Janeczek – cultural education programs coordinator at the foundation Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej. Journalist and a graphic designer. Ph.D student at the Media Education section of the Institute of Pedagogy (APS). Author of exercises, games and lesson scenarios for media education. She conducts original media classes “SUWAK” for young people in Piaseczno. Graduated from the shool of trainers at CEO. Focuses on media expertise of teachers. She is an enthusiast of visual communication and new technologies.
Bernd Justin Jütte – research Fellow at the School of Law of The Universoty of Nottingham. Justin completed his PhD in 2016 with a thesis on European Copyright Reform at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Luxembourg and an LL.B. from the University of Greifswald (Germany). His research focuses on current copyright reform and copyright management, copyright and human rights and user-generated content.
Xawery Konarski – legal expert with over 20 years of experience in the new technology law. Recommended in Polish and foreign TMT legal rankings. Member of the Council at the Polish Chamber of Informatics and Telecommunications (PIIT). Legal advisor at the Association of Internet Employees (IAB) and at the Polish Insurance Chamber (PIU). Arbitrator at the Arbitration Tribunal for Internet Domains at PIIT. Participated in legislation works on several bills regulating new technology law.
Łukasz Kozak – medievalist, editor of Polona digital library, author of popular reviews of digital archives.
Michał Kożuchowski – better known under the stage name – Sir Mich. Sound engineer, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, ZAIKS member. Graduate school of music in class of piano and trumpet. He works with the most recognizable Polish rapper called Tede. Winner of the Sztos Award in category producer of the year 2014.
Peter Labody – Head of the Copyright Department at the Hungarian IP Office since 2014. He is mainly responsible for the supervision of collective management organizations, licensing the use of orphan works and managing copyright-related dossiers in Brussels and in WIPO. He holds a degree in law, an LL.M in infocommunication law and took the bar exam in 2013. He is a member of the Hungarian Council of Copyright Experts and the National Board Against Counterfeiting, a common platform for authorities and stakeholders involved in the protection and enforcement of IP rights in Hungary.
Katarzyna Lejman – lawyer on the E-business and Intellectual Property teams at Wierzbowski Eversheds lawfirm. My field of interests includes issues related to e-business, information technology and unfair competition. My experience includes conducting disputes for infringement of intellectual property rights in Poland and elsewhere in Europe. I advise clients from the e-commerce sector on protection of their business names, trademarks and management of copyrights on the Internet.
Michał Leksiński – strategist, planner, person of communication. About Patronite he says, tells, spins stories and sows the idea. Professionally bounded to consulting industry, especially in the digital economy area. A graduate of political marketing and media communication at the University of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Collector of 5 post-graduate studies in psychology and business intelligence. Privately: fascinated by climbing, mountaineer and explorer of adrenaline.
Paweł Leszczyński – organises Warsaw Beer Festival. He is the president and board member of The Mazovian Branch of Polish Homebrewers Association. As a certified beer judge, he specializes in sensory trainings and works at the Kufle i Kapsle multitap.
Aleksandra Maciejewicz – lawyer and co-founder of LAWMORE, legal and business consultancy for startups and creative industry. Patent attorney trainee and a member of Polish Patent Attorneys Chamber. Lecturer of intellectual property law at universities in Warsaw.
Lisa Macklem – holds a Canadian JD in IP & IT and an American LLM in Entertainment and Media law. Her dissertation examines the intersection of technology, copyright, and the media and how these impact on innovation and human rights. Lisa has appeared on Canada AM & This Week in the Law. She is a member of the OBA, CBA, ABA, and BHBA and has recently presented at IPSC, the Global Congress on IP, and WIPIP, as well as presenting for Beverly McLachlin Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Michael Morris – an experienced intellectual property attorney and litigator in the United States. Holding an LL.M. in Information, Technology and the Law from the University of Edinburgh, where he is completing his Ph.D. research on the copyright liability of non-traditional Internet service providers, Michael presented at the Washington College of Law Conference on ACTA, gives expert testimony and speaks on copyright and trademark issues to groups at levels of intellectual property knowledge.
Peter Munkacsi – born in Budapest. He has a Bachelor of Law from ELTE University, Budapest. Two LL.M. degrees were awarded to Peter by Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg and by EUI, Florence. He’s working recently in public administration as IP expert at senior level with experience in the international organizations. Peter was selected for a Staff member of the 2011 Hungarian EU-Presidency. He has various publications relating copyright issues in Hungarian and English.
Diego Naranjo – a qualified lawyer and co-founder of the Andalusian human rights organisation Grupo 17 de Marzo. During the last six years, Diego has been specialising on human rights law. He owns a Master’s degree in human rights from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice. Diego joined EDRi in October 2014 as Advocacy Manager. He advocates for the protection of citizens’ fundamental rights and freedoms online in the fields of data protection, surveillance and copyright. In the past, Diego gained experience in the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and the Free Software Foundation Europe. Previously to all that he worked as a lawyer in Spain. Diego is co-author of the Council of Europe’s Study DGI31 “Human Rights Violations Online”: https://edri.org/files/EDRI_CoE.pdf, prepared by EDRi for the Council of Europe on 4 December 2014. Twitter: @DNBSevilla
Ondřej Neumajer – obtained his Ph.D. in pedagogy from Charles University in Prague at Faculty of Education and his master degree from Technical University of Liberec. He focuses on the use of digital technologies in education and educational innovation. He has worked at the Ministry of Education and The Research Institute of Education and as a consultant has cooperated with many IT companies and hundreds of schools. Dr. Neumajer is the main author of The Digital Strategy for Education in The Czech Republic until 2020. He works as an external consultant for the digital education at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and teaches as an assistant professor at Information Technology and Technical Education Dept., Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague.
Teresa Nobre – attorney-at-law based in Lisbon, Portugal. She is also Creative Commons Portugal legal lead and a member of COMMUNIA. She is the legal lead of the Best Case Scenarios for Copyright initiative. Teresa holds a university degree in Law from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law and a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.
Alexandros Nousias – a freelance law professional, member of the Athens Bar Association, ODI Athens and Legal Lead of Creative Commons-Greece. He focuses in the areas of intellectual property, open data, open content, privacy and related ethical issues. He aims at constant reinvention.
Justyna Nykiel – a trainee attorney at the District Bar Council in Wroclaw. She graduated from the faculty of Law at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and completed postgraduate studies in „real estate appraisal” at the Warsaw University of Technology. Expert in the Friendly Copyright Law consortium (http://www.przyjazneprawoautorskie.pl/). In her professional work she deals mainly with copyright and industrial property law.
Grzegorz Pacek – PhD in law, legal adviser, member of the Allerhand Institute Academic Association, member of the Polish Group of the International Association for Intellectual Property Protection, lecturer at the H. Grocjusz’s Centre of Law of Intellectual Property. IPR expert in the Regional Development Agency. Author and co-author of scientific and popular scientific publications on new technologies, industrial property rights, copyright and data protection.
Petra Pejšová – graduated in Information science and librarianship at the Charles University in Prague. Currently she is a manager of the National repository of Grey Literature in the Czech Republic. Its goal is a systematic collection, long-term archival and provision of access to specialized grey literature, especially to do with research and development, civil service and education, as well as from the business sphere and “open access” at the national level. She works in the National Library of Technology as a head of the Digital National Technical Library. Through lectures and publications she provides information on grey literature in the Czech Republic. She is a member of Czech affiliate team for dissemination free licenses Creative Commons.
Alicja Peszkowska – Community Builder dealing with the topic of new technologies & social change. For the past 6 years Alicja worked at TechSoup where she focused on transparency and e-participation projects.She co-built NetWtorek community, organised and took part in numerous social hackathons and booksprints incl. the one about the new technologies and the Glam Sector („Podziel się spadkiem!”). Last year Alicja crowdfunded and produced a debut album of her band – Niskie ciśnienie (en: Low Pressure).
Dr Rufus Pollock – adviser on open data to several governments and has worked extensively as a scholar, activist and technologist on the social, legal and technical challenges surrounding the creation and sharing of knowledge. He is the Founder and President of Open Knowledge, an international non-profit organization using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and promote its use in creating the insights that drive change. A pioneer in the growing area of information politics, he made Open Knowledge into one of the leading “think/do tanks” of the twenty-first century before stepping down from the full-time role of CEO in December 2015. In addition to Open Knowledge, he has been involved in many other organizations such as Creative Commons, FFII and the Open Rights Group. He was previously the Mead Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge, where he remains an Associate of the Centre for Information and Intellectual Property Law. In 2010 he was appointed to a $1m three-year Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship, and in 2012 he was elected an Ashoka Fellow. He has received several other prizes and awards.
Joanna Potęga – political scientist and researcher (Collegium Civitas), trainer (STOP), digital and traditional librarian (University of Warsaw). Co-organiser of Legal seminar for ditigal librarians (2010). Member of expert team in the Copyright for libraries reform project (2012). Author and trainer in projects regarding digitisation, digital libraries, publishing of digital media, with a particular attention given to copyright law.
Michał Przymusiński – Polish language sholar, in his professional career specialising in bringing the traditional media into the new media. Lecturer at Collegium Civitas. Member of the Board and one of the founders of Crowley Media, a company dealing with social media video. The first CEO of Ośrodek Nowe Media at TVP (Polish national broadcasting company). Author of interactive strategies for media companies. He specialises in strategic consulting in new media. In conjunction with expertise in planning and management he is particulary adept at technical skills regarding operation of internet technologies.
Ana Ramalho – Portuguese national with policy and legal expertise in the field of intellectual property (IP) and European law. Currently an Assistant Professor of IP at Maastricht University, she holds a 5-year advanced LL.B. from the University of Lisbon (1999), an LL.M. in IP and Competition Law from the Munich IP Law Center (2007), a Research Master in IP Law from the University of Lisbon (2008), and a PhD in Copyright and European Law from the University of Amsterdam (2014).
Tito Rendas – Ph.D. candidate and Lecturer at Católica Global School of Law. In 2012, he received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Prior to that, he received an LL.M. from Católica Global School of Law (2011) and his law degree from the Law School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2010). He has been an agent for the Portuguese Republic in various preliminary reference procedures on copyright law before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Agustin Reyna – a Senior Legal Officer leading BEUC’s work on Digital Single Market policy. He is currently working on different EU measures to tackle geo-blocking in the online environment. Argentinean born, Agustín obtained his law degree in the National University of Córdoba. He studied ICT law in Spain (Comillas Pontifical University) and Belgium (CRIDS, University of Namur) and he is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on copyright and consumer protection (University of Bremen)
Marek Rosiński – attorney at law, partner and a member of Baker & McKenzie European IP Practice Group Steering Committee. He heads the IP, TMT local practice group. Chambers Europe ranked Marek as Eminent Practitioner in IP and TMT in Poland. Marek’s representative engagements include advising the Polish government on the EUR 8 billion public aid program for stimulating innovation in years 2014 to 2020.
Tomasz Rychlicki – Polish patent and trade mark attorney. He graduated from the University of Gdańsk, the Faculty of Law, European Law Center. Tomasz is a frequent writer on various IP- and IT-related issues. He is a member of the Editorial Board at the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice published by Oxford University Press and a country correspondent for the Computer and Telecommunications Law Review published by Sweet and Maxwell.
JUDr. Anton Škreko, PhD. – graduated from the Trnava University in Trnava, Faculty of Law in 2003. From 2003 to 2008 he worked on his PhD. in civil law, specializing in the intellectual property law. In 2003 Anton Škreko completed an educational course in the intellectual property law within the WIPO Worldwide Academy. After this he attended successful research internships at Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic (2004) and Max Planck Institute for intellectual property, competition law, and tax law in Munich (2006). He worked at an attorney office and at the District Court in Trnava. Later he acted as Head of the Copyright Unit at the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. Currently he works as a Research and Lecturer for Institute of Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology at Trnava University in Trnava, Faculty of Law. From 2012 Anton Škreko works as a Director General of Media, Audiovisual and Copyright Department at the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. From 2014 to 2015 Anton Škreko chaired the Temporary working party for the recodification of Copyright Law in Slovak Republic a led the copyright recodification process in Slovakia.
Anna Smolar – a Polish-French theater director and translator. Graduated from literature studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and acting and directing courses at the Sudden Théâtre. In Poland, she has directed amongst others Zamiana Claudela at Teatr Śląski in Katowice, Pani z Birmy o Aung San Suu Kyi at Teatr Polonia in Warsaw, Obcy by Albert Camus at Teatr im. Juliusza Słowackiego in Krakow, Pinokio at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Aktorzy Żydowscy at Teatr Żydowski, Dybuk in Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz, and most recently Henrietta Lacks at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw. In 2016 her Dybuk received a ministerial prize for achievements in Polish Contemporary Art. Her performance Aktorzy Żydowscy (Jewish Actors) received the 2016 Grand Prix at Kaliskie Spotkania Teatralne. She is the author of the French translation book Grazyna Jagielska Miłość z kamienia.
Dániel G. Szabó – a lawyer with journalism background focusing on freedom of expression and information. He did his LL.M. at Central European University in Comparative Constitutional Law. With a journalism background from the leading Hungarian online news portal, he understands the practical aspects of free speech issues. Currently he is a legal officer at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. He is also active in an NGO-based journalism project called Transparent Education where he provides legal support for journalists in freedom of information requests and other free speech issues.
Magdalena Szecówka – marketing, PR, and social media specialist. Deals with branding, communications, brand management, and marketing strategy. Apart from publicity creation specialises in copyright and patent law, legislation and personal data protection, with particular focus on promotion and publicity creation methods.
Kamil Śliwowski – animator and media education trainer. Active in the area of open education. Involved in Creative Commons Poland. Cooperates with Coalition for Open Education, where he currently is a Chairman. Netoholic. Runs otwartezasoby.pl (fot. Kristina Alexandersons)
Dr Justyna Tokarzewska – advocate, represents clients in disputes related to IP, in particular, copyrights, patents, know how, and trademarks as well as unfair competition disputes, in particular, advertising. She advices on license agreements, e-commerce, advertising campaigns. She has experience in arbitration, including, serving as an arbitrator.
Mgr. Jan Vobořil, Ph.D. – graduated in law and history at the Charles University, Prague. He works as law expert and project leader at Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) since 2009.. Currently, he is executive director at IuRe. One of his major fields of interest are digital rights, especially right to privacy and copyrigt and the use of the public licenses. His work includes strategic litigation, legal analyses and legislative comments, watchdog activities and promotion of these issues in public debate. Jan i salso independent barrister and member of the Czech Bar Association.
Mikhail Volchak – social experimenter and a pirate from Belarus. Believes that all human creations it possible to explore and shape with a new way. Says: “If you are enough crazy, follow my blog: talash.by It is not matrix, it is rizoma.”
Jody Wood – New York–based artist utilizing video, installation, performance, and community organization to engage with socially informed content. Her work received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, New York Council for the Humanities, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. In 2014, Wood was a Socially Engaged Art Fellow with A Blade of Grass and has presented work internationally. She is a current Fellow at University Settlement in NYC and teaches art and social justice at Pace University.
Sonia Wronkowska – musicologist. Works on early music manuscripts as well as digital library Polona (polona.pl) development in the National Library of Poland. She leads Polish RISM Centre (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) and works in Canadian digital musicology project SIMSSA (Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis). Currently preparing doctoral dissertation at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań about derivative works in the repertory of Polish church ensembles in 18th century.
Stephen Wyber – Policy and Research Officer at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), based in The Hague, where he leads on access to information issues. In particular, he works on engagement with WIPO and the EU on copyright reform. He previously worked at the British Embassy in Paris, and the UK Permanent Delegation to the OECD. He studied at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the College of Europe, Natolin.
Zbigniew Zbikowski – writer and journalist. Debuted in 1976. Since the late 70s has worked as a journalist in national and emigration press. The last editor of “Pogląd” monthly (West Berlin). From 1996 to 2002 editor and writer in “Życie” daily. From 2002-2012 lecturer at the University of Warsaw. Currently editor working in Edipresse Polska. Author: Berlin Blue, Berlin Indigo, Transprussia. Member of the management of Polish Writers’ Association.
CopyCamp 2016
The 5th International CopyCamp Conference took place on October 27-28, 2016 in Warsaw, under the theme „Future of Copyright in Europe”
The conference opened with parallel sessions by Dr. Olga Goriunova, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture from the University of London, addressing the idea of ownership in the age of machine learning, in regard to data, profiles and digital subjects. Dr. Rufus Pollock, an economist and founder of the Open Knowledge, then spoke about the need to build an open information era.
We encourage you to watch the recording of a keynote speech titled „A European copyright fit for the digital age”, given by Dr. Therese Comodini Cachia, Member of the European Parliament and the rapporteur for the proposed Directive on copyright in the Single Digital Market.
Also among our special guests were Michal Dubovan, a senior adviser at the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic responsible for copyright legislation and supervision of collective management organizations, Konrad Gliściński, author of the book „All rights reserved. The history of disputes over copyright. 1469 – 1928,” which had its premiere during the conference, Jonas Holm legal advisor, working with LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries), Mikołaj Iwański, economist (Academy of Art in Szczecin), and Agustin Reyna (senior lawyer for consumer organization BEUC).
All conference presentations are available at:
For the last 5 years, CopyCamp has been a place of a balanced and multi-sided debate about copyright. We have provided a forum for a remarkable number of representatives of cultural institutions and the media, creative sectors, academic, legal, political and non-governmental circles. From Warsaw, we are reaching out towards renowned international speakers. Most of them are from the European Union, including the Visegrad Group, but there are also representatives of other European countries and of the USA.
Thematic tracks:
- Copyright and Art
- Remuneration Models
- Copyright, Education and Science
- Technology, Innovation and Copyright
- Copyright and Human Rights
- Copyright Enforcement
- Copyright Debate
- Copyright Lawmaking
A special V4 track was an opportunity to share experiences, build up cooperation and create common ground for Visegrad Group countries in the context of the UE legislation.
Partners of the conference
Strategic Partners of the conference are International Visegrad Fund, Google and ZIPSEE Cyfrowa Polska.
CopyCamp is part of the Future of Copyright project conducted by the Modern Poland Foundation.
CopyCamp 2016 – programme
CopyCamp 2016 – speakers
CopyCamp 2016: photo gallery
Room A
fot. Rafał Nowak
CopyCamp 2014: Visegrad
The Partners of the 3rd International CopyCamp 2014 Visegrad path:
Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) is a non-governmental non-profit organization from the Czech Republic promoting human rights. It addresses issues of blanket infringements on individual rights as a result of legislative action, and also deals with specific cases of human rights violations. IuRe’s program Human rights and Technology aims to create a barrier against the misuse of new technologies for unjustifiable breaches of individual privacy. Among other activities, IuRe annually organizes the Big Brother Awards Czech republic. Within the scope of this programme IuRe also works on localizing and promoting Creative Commons Licensing as an alteranative to the traditional intelectual property schemes.
Open SKM Agency Kft. was established in 2005 by 3 experienced, Hungarian IT entrepreneurs to offer offer open source consultancy and services to local and international clients. Open SKM has developed an intensive regional network in the field of Open Source knowledge/Copyright issues/Government lobbying etc. As member of several professional associations and civil organizations the company has organized several local and international events, such as „Open Source Farm 2009”, „International OpenOffice.org Conference 2010” and „V4 paradigm shift in copyright – Workshop” in 2012, an event which created an important opportunity to discuss the regional copyright issues.
Historical Trnava University (TU) represents one of the oldest universities in Slovakia. It was established by Cardinal Peter Pázmaň in 1635 and consisted of four faculties of: theology, arts, law and medicine. Trnava University professes principles of the Great Charter of European Universities protecting complete independence of universities from the political and economic power and their freedom to perform research and education. It has established contacts not only with universities in the Slovak Republic but as well with 13 universities abroad (in Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, USA, Poland and Hungary) and built cooperation with them at a good level. The contemporary Law Faculty of Trnava University was re-established in 1992 and it is the best ranked law faculty in Slovakia. Among other achievements it is also the Creative Commons Legal Affiliate.
CopyCamp 2015: recordings
Plenary session:
Jarosław Lipszyc
Michał Kanownik
Giorgia Abeltino
Special speech:
Future of Copyright
Eoin O’Dell: Drafting Flexibilities in Copyright – Irish lessons for the EU
Walter van Holst: Let’s burn down Berne
Michał 'rysiek’ Woźniak: Copyfun
Ana Ramalho: Judicial discretion gone bad? The judicial activism of the Court of Justice in the field of copyright
Models of Remuneration
Marcin Wilkowski: Unpleasant role of copyright in the times of invisible labour
Michał Krawczyk: IPiracy 2012-2015 – summary of empirical research
Zsófia Lehóczki: Civil or public cultural support for musicians
Jarosław Mojsiejuk: Who launders money in the Internet? Laundering revenues from copyright infringements
Anna Gawlita: „Fair Trade” for film productions – remuneration for authors and makers of low-budget projects
Jan Strycharz: Efficiency and justification for collective management
Alina Gut: Copyright law in Muslim countries: Iraq and Turkey
Copyright Debate
Władysław Majewski: Rejection of Patent Directive – 10th anniversary
Katarzyna Wypchło: On ineffective ideas of internet users to protect their copyrights
Julian Hauser: What’s wrong and meta-wrong with copyright: philosophy and the copyright debate
Matija Šuklje: Implications of the EU Copyright Directive reform on Free Software
CopyArt I
Katarzyna Klich-Płocica: Royalties – the obscure object of desire
Kamil Jaczyński: Music in digital world – piracy or fair use?
Aleksandra Sewerynik: This song sounds familiar
Hanna Raszewska: Kinetography Laban and copyright law
Adrian Zwoliński: Level hard – computer games and copyright
Grzegorz Pacek: Copyright law was (not) designed to protect vanity
Dariusz Śmiechowski: Authors in urban space
CopyArt II
Aleksandra Janus: It’s only others’ works that I find interesting. About Zachęta Gallery exhibition (and) on appropriation in arts
Bean Gilsdorf (reader: Kathryn Zazenski): Lateral Appropriation and the Obligations of Artist-Peers
Izabela Smelczyńska/Antoni Michnik: Off register. Talks about music and copyright – making of
Maciej Jakubowiak: Literary models of copyright
Anna Jarmuszkiewicz/Anna Smywińska-Pohl: Orphan works in Polish copyright law
Marta Dubowska: Blind gossips vs freedom of speech
Weronika Szczawińska: Field of research: registered trade mark
Copyright Enforcement
Paweł Szulewski: Copyright law in present days – does it pay?
Lucie Straková/Matěj Myška: Who shall pay? The development of the communication to the public right in Czech case law
Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel: Shaping mechanisms of EU copyright law
Marcin Maj: Why is copyright trolling harmful to authors and copyright law?
Pedro Henrique Batista: Sham Litigation Based on Copyrights: A Possibility in the European Union?
Karolina Andersdotter: Cross-border Copyfight: European libraries re-thinking the InfoSoc Directive
Technology and Innovation
Reinier Bakels: Patents, a Major Threat to Innovation
Natalia Łukaszewicz/Paweł Chojnacki: Green light for Makers – a new legal framework
Witold Chomiczewski: Aftermath of chomikuj.pl case. Will portals be obliged to monitor content for copyright infringements?
Joanna Łukaszyk/Damian Łukaszyk: On (non)compliance with copyright to software
Tadeusz Chełkowski: Towards self-organisation. Economy of social movements – some theory and one example
László Mészáros: Credits for all – alternative currencies
Copyright and Education/Users Rights
Alek Tarkowski: Leveraging copyright in support of education
Dominika Gałecka: Open access to museums (e-museums project)
Marek Troszyński: „Presentations from the Internet”. On life at universitites
Iga Bałos: Homework not done? New law and distance learning??
Michał Starczewski: When copyright hampers and when it suports scientists?
Bernd Justin Jütte: The EU Copyright „Reform” Ignores the User
CopyCamp 2015
The 4th International CopyCamp Conference took place on November 4 in Warsaw.
Special guest:
Dr. Lev Manovich is the author of seven books including Software Takes Command, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database, and The Language of New Media which was described as „the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” Manovich is a Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Director of the Software Studies Initiative that works on the analysis and visualization of big visual cultural data. In 2013 he appeared on the List of 25 People Shaping the Future of Design. In 2014 he was included in the list of 50 „most interesting people building the future” (The Verge).
Workshop
Take part in the workshop dedicated to the problem of copyright management in the 21st century – more information and registration.
Strategic partners: Google and ZIPSEE Cyfrowa Polska.
Partners: COMMUNIA International Association, Coalition for Open Education, Centrum Cyfrowe.
CopyCamp is a part of the project „Future of Copyright” conducted by the Modern Poland Foundation.
CopyCamp 2015 – programme
CopyCamp 2015 – speakers
CopyCamp 2015 – photo gallery
CopyCamp 2015 – recordings
CopyCamp 2015: detailed programme
09.00 – 10.00: registration
ROOM A
10.00 – 10.15: opening of the conference
10.15 – 10.45: plenary:
Jarosław Lipszyc, Modern Poland Foundation
Michał Kanownik, ZIPSEE Cyfrowa Polska
Giorgia Abeltino, Google
10.45 – 11.30: Lev Manovich: The Science of Culture? Learning about cultural trends and history from big cultural data
11.30 – 11.45: break
11.45 – 13.15:
Future of Copyright
Eoin O’Dell: Drafting Flexibilities in Copyright – Irish lessons for the EU
Ewa Laskowska/Grzegorz Mania: Music like water – two voices on the future of copyright
Walter van Holst: Let’s burn down Berne
Monika Gebel: Copyright territoriality – what next?
Alfons Karabuda: Copyright and Human Rights
Ana Ramalho: Judicial discretion gone bad? The judicial activism of the Court of Justice in the field of copyright
Cédric Manara: Copyright and the 99% – time to make copyright simple
13.15 – 13.45: break
13.45 – 15.15:
Copyright Debate
Ian Hargreaves: Copyright reform: lessons from the UK
Arzak Khan: Public Perception in Pakistan towards Copyright and Use of Internet
Władysław Majewski: Rejection of Patent Directive – 10th anniversary
Katarzyna Wypchło: On ineffective ideas of internet users to protect their copyrights
Julian Hauser: What’s wrong and meta-wrong with copyright: philosophy and the copyright debate
Matija Šuklje: Implications of the EU Copyright Directive reform on Free Software
Julia Reda: Reframing the copyright debate
15.15 – 15.45: break
15.45 – 17.15:
CopyArt II
Aleksandra Janus: It’s only others’ works that I find interesting. About Zachęta Gallery exhibition (and) on appropriation in arts
Bean Gilsdorf: Lateral Appropriation and the Obligations of Artist-Peers
Izabela Smelczyńska/Antoni Michnik: Off register. Talks about music and copyright – making of
Maciej Jakubowiak: Literary models of copyright
Anna Jarmuszkiewicz/Anna Smywińska-Pohl: „Orphan works in Polish copyright law”:ttps://youtu.be/I86MuFeQqec
Marta Dubowska: Blind gossips vs freedom of speech
Weronika Szczawińska: Field of research: registered trade mark
17.15 – 17.45: break
17.45 – 19.15:
Technology and Innovation
Reinier Bakels: Patents, a Major Threat to Innovation
Natalia Łukaszewicz/Paweł Chojnacki: Green light for Makers – a new legal framework
Diana Cocoru: Text and Data Mining – Do we need to distinguish between commercial and non-commercial use?
Witold Chomiczewski: Aftermath of chomikuj.pl case. Will portals be obliged to monitor content for copyright infringements?
Joanna Łukaszyk/Damian Łukaszyk: On (non)compliance with copyright to software
Tadeusz Chełkowski: Towards self-organisation. Economy of social movements – some theory and one example
László Mészáros: Credits for all – alternative currencies
ROOM B
10.00 – 11.30: live broadcast from ROOM A
11.30 – 11.45: break
11.45 – 13.15:
Models of Remuneration
Marcin Wilkowski: Unpleasant role of copyright in the times of invisible labour
Michał Krawczyk: IPiracy 2012-2015 – summary of empirical research
Zsófia Lehóczki: Civil or public cultural support for musicians
Jarosław Mojsiejuk: Who launders money in the Internet? Laundering revenues from copyright infringements
Anna Gawlita: Fair Trade” for film productions – remuneration for authors and makers of low-budget projects
Jan Strycharz: Efficiency and justification for collective management
Alina Gut: Copyright law in Muslim countries: Iraq and Turkey
13.15 – 13.45: break
13.45 – 15.15:
CopyArt I
Katarzyna Klich-Płocica: Royalties – the obscure object of desire
Kamil Jaczyński: Music in digital world – piracy or fair use?
Aleksandra Sewerynik: „This song sounds familiar”:
Hanna Raszewska: Kinetography Laban and copyright law
Adrian Zwoliński: „Level hard – computer games and copyright”:
Grzegorz Pacek: Copyright law was (not) designed to protect vanity
Dariusz Śmiechowski: Authors in urban space
15.15 – 15.45: break
15.45 – 17.15:
Copyright Enforcement
Katarzyna Błeszyńska: Legal status of photography in the Internet – protection and execution of rights
Paweł Szulewski: Copyright law in present days – does it pay?
Lucie Straková/Matěj Myška: Who shall pay? The development of the communication to the public right in Czech case law
Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel: Shaping mechanisms of EU copyright law
Marcin Maj: Why is copyright trolling harmful to authors and copyright law?
Pedro Henrique Batista: Sham Litigation Based on Copyrights: A Possibility in the European Union?
Karolina Andersdotter: Cross-border Copyfight: European libraries re-thinking the InfoSoc Directive
17.15 – 17.45: break
17.45 – 19.15:
Copyright and Education / Users Rights
Alek Tarkowski: Leveraging copyright in support of education
Dominika Gałecka: Open access to museums
Marek Troszyński: „Presentations from the Internet. On life at universitites
Iga Bałos: Homework not done? New law and distance learning
Michał Starczewski: When copyright hampers and when it suports scientists?
Bernd Justin Jütte: The EU Copyright „Reform” Ignores the User
Katarzyna Strycharz: Have we reached a compromise? Reforming the copyright exception for education
19.15 – 19.30: closing of the conference
Who?
🔸Nov 23th (Monday), 5 pm (CET)
Pandemic: Regulatory Framework and Practices
Lisa Macklem
is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Western Ontario whose research focuses on digital content delivery, IP, and the Entertainment Industry. Recent speaking engagements include the Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest and the Intellectual Property Scholars Conference. „Fair Dealing, Online Teaching and Technological Neutrality: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis,” cowritten with Samuel Trosow is in the Intellectual Property Journal Vol. 32, Iss. 3 (Sept 2020).
Teresa Nobre
is currently the Vice-President of Communia. Teresa is an attorney-at-law based in Lisbon, Portugal. She is also the Creative Commons Portuguese Chapter Lead. At Communia, Teresa works across the spectrum of user rights, with a special focus on education. She is part of Communia’s “Copyright for Education” team and she led several legal research projects on the area of education. She also represents Communia at the WIPO’s Standing Committee of Copyright and Related Rights.
Susan Isiko Štrba
combines teaching and research with providing policy and legislative advice and technical training to governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society. She focuses mainly on human rights, intellectual property, trade and development. She is the author of International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries: Exploring Multilateral Legal and Quasi-Legal Solutions. She researches technology, IP and the African Continental Free Trade Area.
🔸24.11 (wtorek), 17.00
Lockdown: twórcy i użytkownicy w nowej rzeczywistości
(Session in Polish only)
Marek Hojda
director of Music Export Poland. Former owner of the record company. Vice-president of Polish Society of Authors and Composers, member of CIAM ExCo. Jazz, pop and rock music composer, arranger, singer and music producer.
Paulina Richter
The creator and coordinator of the winning grant project Active Citizens British Council and the Krakow City Hall. Since 2018, she has been associated with PWM Edition as a coordinator of subsidized projects, incl. by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. As a promotion specialist she was responsible for organizing, among others press conferences, workshops, concerts, publications, film production and new recordings. Coordinator of the campaign „You are a creator – you have the right”.
Kamil Śliwowski
trainer, advisor to institutions and non-governmental organizations. He learns how to implement new technologies, create and publish open resources. He teaches teachers, librarians and trainers how to find, select, and use them properly in their daily work. He cooperates with the Szkoła z Klasą Foundation, Panoptykon Foundation and the Geek Girls Carrots community.
🔸Nov 25th (Wednesday), 5 pm (CET)
Content Filtering and other Internet Disputes
Julia Reda
is a copyright expert and project lead at German fundamental rights litigation organization GFF for the project control ©. Between 2014 and 2019, Julia was a Member of the European Parliament, where she focused her work on the EU copyright directive and the regulation of online platforms. Julia is a Shuttleworth Fellow and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Bernd Justin Jütte
is Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property At the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. His research interest focuses on digital aspects of copyright law in the EU, in particular transformative creativity and the role of fundamental rights. He teaches at various European universities and is a Senior Research at the Faculty of Law, Vytautas Magnus University.
Giulia Priora
is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and affiliated researcher at the CEU Center for Media Data and Society in Budapest. Her research focuses on intellectual property law and EU digital innovation policies, with particular regards to EU and comparative copyright law, copyright flexibilities, and distributive theories in digital cultural markets. She has been a visiting researcher at, among others, the Columbia Law School, University of Hamburg, CIPPM Bournemouth University, and served as visiting lecturer at the University of Münster, Yangon University, Central European University, and AILUN Nuoro.
Edyta Bednarczyk
Student of the law faculty at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She took a part in the international exchangers programs at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and at University in Heidelberg. Her plans for the future assume work with the copyrights, new media, and international law. She took a part in national and university conferences, whereas discussing the problems as sampling or copyrights in PRC.
🔸Nov 26th (Thursday), 5 pm (CET)
Directive 2019/790 – Implementation and Interpretation
Julija Kalpokienė
is an Associate at a Lithuanian law firm JurisConsultus, specialising in IP, IT & data protection law and dispute resolution. Julija is also a PhD candidate at Vytautas Magnus University where she a teaches technology law course. Julija’s research focuses on technology and its regulation with particular focus on AI-generated works and copyright law.
Alkistis Kympari
holds a PhD in law from the University of Nantes, France, which was presented on October 2020. Her PhD thesis entitled “Author’s rights and commercially unavailable works” examines solutions in order to make currently unavailable works accessible to the public. Alkistis is an attorney-at-law registered at the Bar of Athens and specializing in intellectual property. She is interested in digital rights management technologies and copyright law in cultural heritage institutions.
🔸Nov 27th (Friday), 5 pm (CET)
Game of Money: Copyright in the Gaming Industry
Luca Guidobaldi
is qualified lawyer in Italy and works as a Managing Associate at Nctm Studio Legale in Rome. Luca’s career has always been highly focused on intellectual property law – a field in which Luca also earned an LL.M. in the U.S. in 2011 – and he has a solid expertise, besides copyright, designs and trademarks, also in the fashion, media, entertainment and art law practices. Luca is listed as a Rising Star in Managing IP’s Rising Stars latest listings for Italy.
Marta Musidłowska
5th year law student at the University of Warsaw. Her main interests focus on Intellectual Property Law, in particular – within creative sectors.. A member of Youth Internet Governance Forum Poland, European Horizons policy incubator and Women in AI, which brings together enthusiasts of artificial intelligence from various backgrounds. Despite legal interests, she wishes to become a journalist – you can find her articles in Rzeczpospolita, Pospolita.eu or lately, Poznaj Świat magazine.
CopyCamp 2014: speakers
Irina Baraliuc is a PhD candidate at the Research Group Law Science Technology & Society, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, focusing her research on the public/private dichotomy in copyright and the legal construction of a private space in the digital environment in relation to enjoyment of copyright-protected content. Her interests also include intellectual rights, privacy, data protection and other fundamental rights, and new technologies.
Natalia Bartsch – lawyer, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at Warsaw University and the Faculty of Sciences of Theatre Theatre Academy in Warsaw. She also studied at the Faculty of Law degli Studi di Univerista Teramo, Italy. Nominated for Pro Bono Lawyer Award 2008 granted by the newspaper „Rzeczpospolita”. In 2012, she won the competition Professionals Forbes 2012 – Competition for Public Trust lawyers. Natalia Bartsch is copyright lecturer at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw.
Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt is the Policy Advisor to The International Music Managers Forum (IMMF), an organization that brings together artist representatives associations from 24 countries. It represents managers and the artists they work for to create better trading conditions for creators through networking, sharing, and discussions. Jake also works as a rights specialist for a selection of recording artists and music copyrights, and manages composer Peter Gregson, and rock band Go Back To The Zoo.
Dagmara Białek – event manager and marketer, was nominated for Personality of the Year of MICE magazine for her achievements. Creates brand Creative Poland and promotes it on the foreign forum – including the flagship project of the Baltic Sea Region. Active in the Partnership Creative Poland and develops project networkingownia.pl.
Andriy Bichuk is a Legal counsel of the advertising agency THINK! McCann Kyiv and member of the legal team of Creative Commons Ukraine. He graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine „Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” specializing in intellectual property law. Andriy is engaged in intellectual property issues, alternative ways of protecting copyright and related rights.
Anna Biernacka – lawyer, graduate of Warsaw University, counsellor, copyright law specialist. Spokesperson of the Association of Authors ZAiKS.
Milena Bogdanowicz – lawyer in the law firm LSW. She specializes in intellectual property (particularly copyright) law, media and advertiining law. In 2013, she was on the first place on the list of „rising stars in the field of law” organised by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and LexisNexis.
Michał Boni was born in Poznan in 1954. He graduated from the Department of Polish Language at the University of Warsaw where he later worked as a researcher. He was elected to the Sejm and was a deputy since first tenure. He was also the Minister of Labour and Social Politics (1991) and the Secretary of State (1992-93). He headed the team of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s strategic consultants. The founder and the leader of a team responsible for programming the Government’s activities; since 2009, member of the Polish Cabinet. He prepared the intellectual capital report, Young 2011 report and Poland 2030 report which determined strategic agenda of the Government until 2020 and was taken into consideration during choice of priorities for programmes that benefit from the EU resources until 2020. He was the originator and the first head of the Ministry of Administration and Digitization. Its actions were focused on both supporting computerisation and e-services, and gradually increasing citizens’ digital literacy. In May of 2014, he was elected a Deputy of the European Parliament. He’s a member of the LIBE Committee and vicepresident of the ITRE Committee.
Radek Czajka – lead developer at Modern Poland Foundation, where he maintains the WolneLektury.pl digital library, among others projects. He is interested in the junction of software, copyright and digital rights. Privately, he is an author of the StrataKazika.pl website.
Dr Gaetano Dimita is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, an Executive Committee Member of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association, the UK national group of the Association Litteraire et Artistique Internationale, the faculty Advisor and Guest Editor of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute Journal, Edward Elgar; and the Editor of the Queen Mary School of Law SSRN series. He is a qualified Avvocato in Italy (Italian Bar Association – Rome).
Dimitar Dimitrov is a Bulgarian political scientist who currently works as Free Knowledge Ambassador of the Wikimedia Movement to the EU. He is based in Brussels where his major focus is to „fix copyright”. Loves coffee, hates carrot juice and considers Twitter a benign version of the internet.
Yaroslav Dytyniuk has been employed by State Organization Ukrainian Agency of Copyright and Related Rights since 2010. He is actively involved in the implementation of the tasks entrusted to the State organization „Ukrainian Agency of Copyright and Related Rights”. The basic job profile is to represent rights and legally protect interests of authors in the courts of general jurisdiction, collection of royalties from unscrupulous users. The range of professional interests is the following: the question of collective management of proprietary copyright, copyright protection on the Internet, the exclusive rights. Dytyniuk Yaroslav has a law degree. In 2012 he graduated from the National University of Tax Service of Ukraine with a master’s degree in law in „Management of economic and legal activity.” The lawyer has a relatively thorough experience of copyright protection in the courts of Ukraine. Regularly participates in conferences, round tables and seminars.
Maciej Giermak – graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Opole (2012). Trainee solicitor at the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Opole. Associate of the Laboratory of Intellectual Property Rights and Intangible Goods at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Opole.
Konrad Gliściński – lawyer. PhD student in the Department of Civil Law at Jagiellonian University. In-house legal counsel in the group of the Jagiellonian Innovation Centre. Graduate of the Law Faculty at the Jagiellnian University and of the post-graduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. In 2010 rewarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the contest organized by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland for the best master’s thesis. Author of the critical law opinion regarding ACTA treaty. Spoke at several conferences and coducted trainings on intelectual property laws.
Mariusz Gniadek – theatre theoretician and culture researcher, for many years professionally involved with developement of Polish e-commerce as well as designing and conducting Internet projects. Founder and long-time manager of the music department of Merlin.pl Internet shop. Promoter of music and collaborator of phonographic companies. Currently, he’s developing an innovative platform PeopleRead.me for e-book distribution buiding an internet television procinema.tv. Since recently, he’s conducted a blog enduserlab.wordpress.com dedicated to the human ability to adapt to the digital reality.
Jarosław Góra – lawyer, head of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Team at Ślązak, Zapiór i Wspólnicy, Kancelaria Adwokatów i radców Prawnych. Author of IPBLOG.PL blog.
Karolina Grodecka – e-learning methodologist. She works in the Centre of e-Learning (CeL AGH). After launching the Open AGH service – the first academic-level Open Educational Resources repository in Poland, she continues to work on opening the AGH resources within the Open AGH e-textbooks project. She prepares and conducts e-learning courses, trains lecturers at universities in the field of Open Educational Resources. Since 2009, she has cooperated with the Coalition for Open Education.
Anna Gruhn coordinates the project of media education in the Modern Poland Foundation. Co-author of the Catalogue of Media and Information Literacy (part: Media Economy). Columnist of the mises.pl website, where she comments on copyright, open access and the book market. Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Warsaw University where she’s preparing a doctoral thesis entitled The commercialization of science as a factor of innovation policy in Poland. The effectiveness of the adopted solutions.
Dr Lucie Guibault is Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She studied law at the Université de Montréal (Canada). In 2002, she defended her PhD thesis on Copyright Limitations and Contracts: An Analysis of the Contractual Overridability of Limitations on Copyright at the University of Amsterdam. She is specialized in international and comparative copyright and intellectual property law. Lucie Guibault has been carrying out research for the European Commission, Dutch ministries, UNESCO and the Council of Europe. Her main areas of interest include copyright and related rights in the information society, open content licensing, collective rights management, limitations and exceptions in copyright, and author’s contract law. She has been involved as legal partner in Creative Commons Netherlands since 2005 and in projects related to Europeana (EuropeanaConnect and Europeana Awareness) since 2009. She is in charge of the coordination of the IViR International Copyright Law Summer Course. Dr. Guibault is member of the international editorial board of Les Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Intellectual Property and Information Technology (JIPITEC), and correspondent for the Netherlands for Computer Law Review International (Cri).
Alexey Gumenchuk, at the beginning of 90th was a bass guitarist of one of the Ukrainian rock groups, in 1993 graduated from law department of the Kiev University, since 1997 has worked only in the sphere of copyright and related rights. In 2003 having the agreement from Universal Music, EMI, the First musical publishing house and a number of the Ukrainian producers, he created Ukrainian League of the Musical Rights, organization of collective management of related rights in the sphere of public performance. At the time of creation of League there was no single contract for royalty payment in the sphere of public performance in Ukraine, therefore for 7 years all contracts with cafes, bars and restaurants both on copyright and related rights were entered into under the assistance of League. At the present time is advisor to Director General of SO „UAACR”, the author’s organization of collective management, member of CISAC.
Wojciech Hardy – PhD candidate at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw, member of the GRAPE research team, enthusiast of music and new technologies. For over two years, assistant in the project Intellectual property protection in the Internet era. Economin analysis, within which he conducted research on ethical perception of „piracy” and analyses of its relation with authorised sale of cultural goods.
Marek Hojda – music composer, pianist and vocalist. The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Jazz Department graduate. Music producer and arranger, who works with many Polish artists and music bands such as De Mono, Vox or Emigranci. Vicepresident of the Association of Authors ZAiKS and head of the Non-Governmental Organizations Council by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Kamil Jaczyński – sport and culture animator. Public relations and music marketing expert. Strongly involved with the hip-hop culture since its emergence in Poland. For over 15 years, he has actively animated the hip-hop culture on many different levels. CEO of Wielkie Joł record label. Lecturer at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Music Managers Academy. He was an editor of HIP-HOP.PL website (the most important hip-hop website in Poland) and a judge in Polish national freestyle battles – WBW. He was an executive producer of bestsellers such as Warszafski Deszcz band’s album Powrócifszy and Tede’s album Ścieżka Dźwiękowa. Co-author of theatre spectacle score to 12 Ławek (directed by Jarek Staniek), shown in Musical Theatre in Gdynia. In Wielkie Joł record label, he is responsible for public and media relations as well as coordinating and supervising musical and visual publications. He also lectures hip-hop culture in the HipHop Academy founded by Wielkie Joł record label and SonicDance dancing group.
Miłada Jędrysik – publicist writing about new technologies and civilisational changes they carry; for many years, world correspondent for Gazeta Wyborcza, currently, editor of culture.pl website.
Paweł Kaźmierczyk – PR specialist in Creative Poland.
Vladimir Kharitonov is CEO in Webpublishers Association (Russia), journalist, publisher. In 1990 he was graduated from the Ural State University, where he defended his PhD and lectured philosophy and history of culture. Since 1997 he has worked as a publisher in U-Factory, AST, Ultra.Culture etc. Consultant and advisor for start-ups Bookmate.com, Bookincard.ru and Ridero.ru. Member of the Russian Literature Academy. Co-author of books Copyright in the Net (2010) and Transformations of copyright in the Internet (2013). Webpublishers Association takes active part in liberalisation of copyright in Russia.
Bogna Kietlińska – art historian and anthropologist of modernity. PhD candidate at the Institute of Applied Social Sciencesat the University of Warsaw, member of the Research Network team within the Living Culture Observatory project. She is also a Secretary of the Board of OŻK-SB Foundation. She is mostly interested in visual sociology, multisensual ethnography and urban research.
Rafał Kownacki – chief International Officer of ZAiKS, Polish leading collective rights managament organisation. Before joining ZAiKS, he was a senior analyst on international and EU law at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, then CEO of the European Foundation for Law. He is a lawyer specialised in IP and competition law with an extensive experience in transnational projects. He is an alumnus of European and American universities, an author of over 50 publications & member of the Department of International Public Law at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Dr Michał Kruk is a lawyer and political science expert, a graduate of the Jagiellonian University Law and Administration Department. For 10 years he has been working in the Polish Patent Office; during this job he took part in 1,5 year long internship at the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. Currently, he is a member of the Office’s disputable issues board. He obtained two scholarships at Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. In 2012, he defended his PhD thesis at the Law Sciences Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences (Trademarks contradictory with the public order or good habits in the European Union. The category of unconditional premises to refuse lawful protection). Since 2013, he has worked in the Modern Civilization Problems Institute of Warsaw School of Economics, where he deals with education and copyright protection matters. He wrote numerous scientific and popular science articles in Poland and abroad; he’s an active lecturer who works on education and intangible goods protection.
Krzysztof Lewandowski – lawyer, specialist in copyright law, law of culture and intellectual property, director general of the Association of Authors ZAiKS. Academic teacher, commentator, manager of culture. Adviser of creators and performing artists, cultural institutions and non-governmental organizations. Arbiter of the Commission of Copyright Law under auspices of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Jarosław Lipszyc – president of the Modern Poland Foundation, author of concept of the website “Włącz Polskę” of the Ministry of National Education, member of the committee of the Citizens of Culture, journalist, participant of debates about ACTA and the future of the copyright. Activist of the free culture movement.
Izabela Litwin – economist by education. By internal conviction – educator and promoter of economic knowledge, especially in the field of accounting and taxation. Since 1995 she has managed a tax advisory office. She is a practitioner of economic life. Beyond accounting systems, she specializes in establishment, liquidation, merger and bankruptcy of companies, assessment of the proprietary, economic and financial condition of enterprises. Together with her daughter she published „Before we take the streets”.
Alex Lungu does video work. Editing, mostly. For film, music videos, advertising and film festivals, most recently. He loves to recombine things, and just like in editing, he really enjoys the power of a good remix. But he’s got a dark side. He sometimes acts on what the little troll in his ear tells him to do. So he uses those video skills to talk about copyright, open culture, equal rights and political issues from Romania, his home country.
Jacek Łęgiewicz – Head of Public Affairs at Samsung Electronics Poland. For many years, he has been professionally involved in digital economy sector. In the past, he served as a Digital Europe’s member of the Executive Board, VP of the Polish Chamber of IT & Telecommunications and VP of the Polish IT & Telecommunications Employers and. Apart from that, Jacek worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw. He was awarded the Cross of Merit by the President of Poland for his social activity and popularization of modern IT technology. Loves trekking and Polish nature reserves.
Natalia Lukaszewicz is a PhD Candidate at the LMU Munich where she is finishing her project “A study on a patent exception for user-generated innovations”, supported by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in Munich (2012) and GRUR (2013-2014). She works also at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Patents and Licensing Department.
Łukasz Łyczkowski – graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration and of the European Centre at Warsaw University; since 2013 trainee advocate in Warsaw, currently works in the law department of Association of Authors ZAiKS.
Joanna Matczuk – lawyer, graduate of University of Wrocław and Queens Mary University of London (LL.M. with the specialization of intellectual property). She is focused on copyright, new technologies, personal data and unfair competition. She takes particular interest in international and comparative law aspects of copyright, as well as in the discusion about the future of copyright in the view of freedom of speech and cultural rights.
Magdalena Miernik – author of the first legal blog for creative people Lookreatywni.pl, graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Warsaw University (2011) and the School of Intellectual Property Rights at the Hugo Grotius Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (2013). Author of numerous publications in the field of intellectual property rights (including Lookreatywni.pl, Grafmag, Startup Magazine), speaker at conferences (including Startup Art, Graphic Knowledge Fair 2013 and 2014) and trainer in the field of intellectual property rights.
Natalia Mileszyk – lawyer in the Institute of Law and Society INPRIS, graduate of the Warsaw University, the School of American Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Warsaw University and the Central European University in Budapest. Academically, her main interest lies in human rights on the Internet. Her thesis work at CEU is dedicated to the issue of human rights protection in the European Union, freedom of speech and the right to privacy in particular, on the example of the liability of intermediaries for the content published on the Internet.
Simon Morrison works in Google’s Public Policy Strategy team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In this role he oversees intellectual property, media regulation and intermediary liability issues. He holds degrees in English Literature and African Studies from Macalester College and Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice. He joined Google in 2007.
Matěj Myška received his degrees in Law from Masaryk University in 2009 (Mgr.) and 2013 (JUDr.) and currently pursues his Ph.D. Since 2010 he has held the position of a full time lecturer and research fellow in law and technology on the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. Since 2013 he cooperates with the Technology Transfer Office (Masaryk University) as a lawyer. Since 2013 he acts as the Legal Lead of the Creative Commons Czech Republic.
Maksym Naumko currently works as a legal adviser in UDC Licensing Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine. He also is a Legal Lead of Creative Commons Ukraine. He graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine „Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” with a degree in law and from the Odessa National Law Academy with a degree in intellectual property.
Katarzyna „Novika” Nowicka – for years, one of the most active characters in the Polish club scene. Initially, the singer was part of the band Futro and she cooperated with Smolik. Her solo debut album Tricks of life (2006) was nominated for Polityka’s Passport. Subsequent albums: Lovefinder (2010) and an album of remixes Mixfinder (2011) were presented with the Fryderyk music award in the club music category. Novika also collaborated with Marcin Czubala (“Stay Close”, Mobilee 2012) and with renowned German producer Lovebirds (This time, Toolroom 2012). She performed at the most important Polish festivals (Open’er, Freeform, Audioriver, Selector, Tauron Nowa Muzyka) and abroad (Wilsonic Festival, Great Escape, Waves Vienna, Expo in Shanghai). In 2013 she released her third album Heart times, the most mature and individual of her works. Although no longer playing as a DJ, Novika regularly sings in clubs across the country as a part of the collective Beats Friendly, mostly in duet with DJ Mr. Lex. For over 10 years she has conducted her own radio programmes. Leniwa niedziela (Lazy Sunday), Strefa miejska (City zone), Miastosfera (in duet with Lex) were broadcasted in Radiostacja, Radio Jazz, Radio Bis, Roxy and Kampus.
Adam Pacuski – director of the Warsaw district in Association of Authors ZAiKS, lawyer. He is involved in, among others, current assessment of whether in a given situation the public performance is based on statutory license.
Ioana Pelehatăi writes. She sometimes sleeps, too. Also, never seen not drinking coffee. Ioana is a Bucharest-based digital content writer, who creates and manages optimized content for a digital agency and who also writes for Romanian youth culture magazine SUB25. She’s got a knack for stories and the English language, a serious track record as a screenplay writer and translator, an old passion for interwar history and a new one for open culture. She also has a deep-seated love for the still image, a work-in-progress M.A. in visual studies/anthropology, and a penchant for gender studies.
Petros At FreeLab – a former believer in free market and practitioner of capitalism. Currently, he’s a theoretician and a practitioner of anarcho-positivism who incorporates the thought of the commons and concepts of peer-to-peer in his search for methods of grassroots self-organisation. Wandering storyteller. Political writer. Traveller. He follows the principle of Krishnamurti: it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Dr Mariusz Piotrowski – employee of the Department of Culture Research Methods at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw, member of the Research Network team within the Living Culture Observatory project and vice-president of the board of OŻK-SB Foundation. He is mostly interested in anthropology of the Internet and cultural studies in which he uses his digital competences and passion for databases.
Bartosz Pudo – lawyer, PhD candidate at Law and Administration Department at the University of Silesia, winner of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Award for the best written scientific work in a contest organised by Polish Patent Office.
Dr Krzysztof Siewicz, Ph.D., is a lawyer who specializes in the legal aspects of information processing. He works in the Centre for Open Science ICM UW, he’s an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Kardynał Wyszyński University and an of counsel of GWW LEGAL law company. He graduated from the Law and Administration Faculty of the Warsaw University and he obtained a LMM degree at the Central European University in Budapest. He defnded his PhD thesis on freedom of softawre users protection at the Leiden University in Holland. Author of several scientific publications on the subject of using IT and communicational technologies.
Rafał Sikorski – lecturer at the Law and Administration Faculty of University of Poznań. Lawyer and partner in Sójka Maciak Matczyński law company, where he chairs the Department of Intellectual PopertyPrawa Własności. The husband of a cellist and father of three sons. He listens to jazz and plays basketball.
Dr Yngve Slettholm joined Kopinor, the Norwegian Reproduction Rights Organisation, as Executive Director in 2006. Dr. Slettholm holds a PhD from State University of New York at Buffalo. For many years he was Assistant Professor at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, teaching music theory and composition. His political career summitted in 2001– 2005, when he served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Culture, also responsible for copyright matters. Dr. Slettholm has over the years held several honorary posts in the field of music and culture, among them 12 years as Executive Board member of TONO (the Norwegian performing rights’ society). Since 2012 he has served as Chair of the Arts Council of Norway. He is a profiled and recognized composer in Norway, though currently less active than before. Dr. Slettholm was elected Director of the Board of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) in October 2012.
Jan Sowa (1976) is a materialistic-dialectical theorist of culture, doctor of sociology, his defended his post-PhD dissertation in the filed of cultural studies. He’s a research fellow in the Antropology of Literature and Culture Research Department at the Jagiellonian University. Member of the National Programme of the Humanities Development Council. He has published about one hundred papers in Poland and abroad, as well as three books. Recently, Phantom Body of a King. Peripheral struggle with modern form (2012).
Maira Sutton works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a Global Policy Analyst, monitoring and advocating for human rights as it applies to emerging tech policy. She leads EFF’s international work in defending users rights against expansive copyright provisions that restrict users’ rights and impede innovation, particularly in opaque international policymaking venues such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP).
Attila Szervác is a Hungarian copyleft composer/freedom activist within non-profit organizations. His works are primarily published on the Mutopia, International Music Score Library and SourceForge websites. He erected the KOMP-Csoport composer’s group with his friends. They have given concerts between 1996-2001. He started the Copyleft projects in 2000. Since 2004 he has been the help of the local Közadat program helps the Hungarian government to implement free software. In 2008 he initiated the foundation of the Creative Commons Hungary Association.
Kamil Śliwowski – animator and trainer of media education. He works with the Coalition for Open Education (which is a member of the Presidium of the Coalition). Blogging about open educational resources www.otwartezasoby.pl, teaches the use of new media in the humanities at the School of Social Psychology. He works at the Panoptykon Foundation.
Alek Tarkowski (1977) – PhD in sociology, head of Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska. Coordinator of Creative Commons Poland, vice-president of the Open Education Coalition and a board member of the Management Council of COMMUNIA. Member of the movement Obywatele Nauki, responsible for the subject of open resources. He’s occupied with public policies on intellectual property which serve the public interest.
Mikhail Volchek – pirate, co-creator and inspirer of pirate movement in Belarus (from 2013). Studies at the Law Department (BSU) and drills copyright laws in Belarus and around the world. He organizes drupal, opendata, wiki meetups. Currently engaged as a coordinator with deployment Creative Commons Affiliate in Minsk spreading the word about tools which can overcome the copyright facets and limits. He’s an opensource soldier.
Piotr Waglowski – lawyer, publicist and webmaster, founder of the VaGla.pl service. Employee of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the Warsaw University. Member of the Council for Digitization at the Ministry of Administration and Digitization, columnist in monthly magazines „IT w Administracji” and „Gazeta Bankowa”. He participates in the Citizen Legislation Forum’s works in the Stefan Batory Foundation within the Responsible State project (formerly Anti-Corruption). In 1995 he founded the first Polish online discussion list devoted to the subject of law. Piotr Waglowski is a founding member of the Internet Society Poland, he was a member of the board of ISOC Polska and of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications. He was also a member of Information Technology Council at the Ministry of the Interior and Administration and member of the Information Technology Council at the Ministry of Administration and Digitization, member of the team for Open Data and Resources at the Council of Ministers for Digitization. He also worked as a social advisor of the President of the Office of Electronic Communications in the field of the media market, particularly in terms of net neutrality. In the years 2009-2014, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Modern Poland Foundation, at the same time he was also a member of the Panoptykon Foundation’s Programme Council. Consultant, trainer, lecturer, author of publications on legal aspects of the information society. Author of the book Prawo w sieci. Zarys regulacji Internetu (The Law on the Web. Internet Regulation Outline).
Marcin Węgrzynowski is an acknowledged hairdresser and hairstylist. He started his career almost 20 years ago; with years, he has opened his own hair hairdressing studio „Beauty”. Since then he has been developing his skills and learning newest trends. He became Master Hairdresser in 2001. He is a lecturer in a hairdressing school. In private, he propagates healthy lifestyle and jogging. In 2013, he started to „buck the system” by refusing to pay ZAIKS (Polish Society of Authors and Composers) royalties for listening to the radio in his studio, arguing he already pays the radio and television licence fee. He denied gaining financial benefits from his clients listening to the radio. The two parties ended up in court. On April 14, 2014, the trial finished with a new precedent set in favour of the hairdresser. Although ZAIKS has lodged an appeal against the verdict, it was dismissed by the Appellate Court in Wrocław on August 29, 2014.
Benjamin White – Head of Intellectual Property at British Library. Member of the UK Copyright Hub, UK Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance and Chair of the Council of European National Librarians Copyright Working Group. Writings on copyright published include articles in New Statesman, Copyright World and Archives et Bibliotheques de Belgique.
Michał Wiśniewski – singer and author of lyrics. In 1995, together with a composer Jacek Łągwa, he launched Ich Troje band which for almost 20 years has been successfully present on the Polish music scene. Over the years, he created other music projects such as Spooko, Red Head, Renia Pączkowska and Michał Wiśniewski & Drużyna Wawrzyna. In 2002, Sylwester Latkowski made a film about him entitled Gwiazdor (A Star). 3 years later, he played one of the main characters in Mikołaj HAremski’s film Lawstorant. In 2009, he went back to acting, playing an episode in Zamiana (Exchange) by Konrad Aksinowicz. In 2012, he became a host of aTV programme Opowiedz nam swoją historię (Tell us your story). In 2013, he co-hosted a TV programme Świat się kręci (The world turns around). In private, founder of the Polish Poker Union, aviation and care race enthusiast.
Marcin Wilkowski – interested in interrelations between history and the media (the Internet in particular); creator of the History and Media website (historiaimedia.org), author of Introduction to Digital History (Gdańsk, 2013). Coordinator of the Open Education Coalition (within the Modern Poland Foundation). He cooperates with the Urban Culture Institute in Gdańsk. Member of the movement Obywatele Nauki and the KARTA Centre, involved in activities devoted to development of social archival studies.
Ewa Wojnarska-Krajewska – legal advisor specialized in intellectual property law. Works in Bureau of Parliamentary Analysis at Sejm Chancellery. The author of the blog WPrawo.
Michał 'rysiek’ Woźniak – expert in Web security, privacy and media literacy. Social voluteer, promoter of open source software and technology in education, social services and business. The chairman of the Free and Open Software Foundation board. Co-author of the Catalogue of Media Literacy and media education materials. Trainer on copyright law and free licenses. Founfing member of the Warsaw Hackerspace, active in hacker community.
Jacek Zadrożny – graduated from the Warsaw University, where he studied social policy. For fifteen tears, his occupation has been information accessibility for people with disabilities, primarily: digital information. His interests are developing towards digital inclusion, he’s an author of many articles and publications in both thematic areas. Member of an expert committee supporting the Human Rights Defender, employee of the Foundation Vis Maior, husband and father.
Kacper Zagadka – he was born and lives in Poland. Language studies at the University of Wroclaw meant translating excerpts of ancient works. Then writing his own stories came. Initially caused by pure pleasure of creating the story from the beginning, it soon became a kind of rest from professional life. After 15 years of such „accidental writing”, some of the finished text were published under the pseudonym of Kacper Zagadka (Caspar The Riddle).
Krzysztof Zuber – lawyer, represented the Authors’ Society ZAiKS in the trial against the hairdresser, who refused to pay royalties for making available radio music in his studio.