ALAI Congress 2015: Remuneration for the Use of Works - Exclusivity vs. Other Approaches

June 18 - June 19, 2015


ALAI Deutschland has organized, on 18 and 19 June 2015 in Bonn, the annual international ALAI Congress, entitled “Remuneration for the use of works – Exclusivity vs. alternative approaches”.

You will find below the program of that Congress, the questionnaire on the different aspects of the program, and the national reports by national ALAI groups.

 

Program

Thursday, June 18: Legal models to assure remuneration for use

9:30 – 10:00

Welcome speeches:

Victor Nabhan, President of ALAI

Michele Woods, Director, WIPO Copyright Law Division

Adolf Dietz, Former President of ALAI Deutschland

Reto Hilty, President of ALAI Deutschland

Session 1: Legal models to assure remuneration for use de lege lata

10:00 – 11:10

1. Exclusive rights

 
  • Introduction by moderator – Thomas Dreier
  • Scope and enforcement tools to assure remuneration (general report) – Marshall Leaffer
  • Mechanisms to ensure adequate remuneration for creators and performers (general report) - Tristan Azzi
  • Discussion

11:40 - 13:00

2. Statutory remuneration rights

 
  • Moderator – Pierre-Yves Gautier
  • Scope and enforcement tools to assure remuneration (general report) – Christophe Geiger
  • Mechanisms to ensure adequate remuneration for creators and performers (general report) – Tobias Holzmüller
  • Discussion

Session 2: Considerations de lege ferenda  

14:30 – 15:30  

1. Could and should the approach of the German Copyright Act of 1965 (limitation and statutory remuneration right for private copy) be further developed?

  • Moderator – Michel Walter
  • Speaker – Ysolde Gendreau
  • Panelists – Richard Pfohl / Paloma López / Rainald Ludewig

15:30 – 16:30

2. How could contract law mechanisms be developed to improve economic protection of creators and performers?

  • Moderator – Frank Gotzen
  • Speaker – Pierre Sirinelli
  • Panelists – Silke von Lewinski / Sylvie Nerisson / Rudolf Leška

17:00 – 18:00

3. Remuneration based on the national budget (examples: Spanish and Israeli private copy system) or alternative models: potential for development?

  • Moderator – Gillian Davies
  • Speakers – Ignacio Garrote, Tamir Afori
  • Panelists – Helga Tabuchi, João Pedro Quintais

Friday, June 19: Business models today and options for the future

Session 1: Examples for business models in the digital environment and their legal assessment

10:00 – 11:10

Keynote – Stefanie Hubig

Introduction by the moderator – Matthias Leistner

 

1. Music Flatrates

  • Presentation – Alvaro Hernández-Pinzón
  • Legal Assessment – Alvaro Hernández-Pinzón
  • Q&A

 

2. CCC / RightsDirect and VG Wort

  • Presentation – Frederic Haber
  • Legal Assessment – Robert Staats
  • Q&A

 

Micro Licensing

  • Presentation – Olaf Wolters
  • Legal Assessment – Ole Jani
  • Q&A

11:40 – 13:00   

Moderator – Jan Rosén

4. Open Access in Science Publishing

  • Presentation – Frank Sander
  • Legal Assessment – Carlo Scollo Lavizzari
  • Q&A

 

5. Payment-based online access to newspapers

  • Presentation –  Patricia Riera Barsallo
  • Legal Assessment – Rafael Sánchez Aristi
  • Q&A

 

6. Free, advertisement-financed services

  • Presentation – Cédric Manara
  • Legal Assessment – Rafal Sikorski
  • Q&A

 

Discussion with the audience

Session 2: Challenges for the legislature and courts

14:30 – 16:00  

1. Need for regulation of such business models?

  • Moderator – Mihály Ficsor
  • Speaker – Susy Frankel
  • Panelists – Jørgen Blomqvist / Maria M. Frabboni / Pál Tomori

 

2. Role of collective administration in such business models?

  • Moderator – Raquel Xalabarder
  • Speaker – Martin Schaefer
  • Panelists –Romana Matánovac Vučković / Brigitte Lindner

16:30 – 17:30

3. Participation of creators and performers

  • Moderator – Axel Metzger
  • Speaker – Franck Macrez
  • Panelists – Maria Martin-Prat / Eddie Schwartz / Maureen Duffy

17:30 – 17:45

17:45 – 18:00

18:00 – 18:30

Conclusions:  Antoon Quaedvlieg

Closing remarks: Victor Nabhan, President ALAI

ALAI General Assembly

The conference proceedings have been published and may be purchased here.


Questionnaire and national reports

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