Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s “The Uneasy Case for Copyright”: A 40th Anniversary Symposium

This event is co-sponsored by The George Washington Law Review, The GW Law Intellectual Law Program, and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center

Agenda

All panels will be held in the Jacob Burns Moot Court Room (Lerner 101)

Thursday, November 4:

7:30 - 8:30 am
Breakfast in Kelly Lounge


8:30 - 8:45 am
Welcome and Introductions

Senior Associate for Academic Affairs Dean Gregory E. Maggs


8:45 - 10:15 am
Panel: Production of Creative Works as an Economic Sector

Moderator: Robert Brauneis, Professor, The George Washington University Law School

Michael Abramowicz, Professor, The George Washington University Law School

Oren Bracha, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Talha Syed, Professor, The University of California, Berkeley

Stan Liebowitz, Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas


10:15 - 10:30 am
Break


10:30 am - Noon
Panel: Copyright and Specific Industries

Moderator: Dawn Nunziato, Professor, The George Washington University Law School

Niva Elkin-Koren, Professor, The University of Haifa

Pamela Samuelson, Professor, The University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Josef Drexl, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property

Seth Ericsson, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center


Noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch

Welcome by Dean Frederick Lawrence, The George Washington University Law School

Remarks by the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Location: RSVPs - Faculty Conference Center (Burns, 5th Floor) or open seating with video in the Jacob Burns Moot Court Room (Lerner 101)


1:30 - 3 pm
Panel: Historical and Empirical Perspectives on the Institution of Copyright

Moderator: Ralph Oman, Professor, The George Washington University Law School

Zorina Khan, Professor, Bowdoin College

Martin Kretschmer, Professor, Bournemouth University


3 - 3:15 pm
Break


3:15 - 4:45 pm
Panel: Supporting Creativity and its Dissemination: Alternative Ends, Alternative Means

Moderator: Roger Schechter, Professor, The George Washington University

Wendy Gordon, Professor, Boston University

John Duffy, Professor, The George Washington University

F. Scott Kieff, Professor, The George Washington University

 


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