First Annual ISHTIP Workshop
The Construction of Immateriality
Practices of Appropriation and the Genealogy of Intellectual Property
Università Bocconi, Milan Italy
26-27 June 2009
The ISHTIP 2009 Workshop has been organised with the kind support of Angelo Sraffa Department of Law and of ASK Research Centre of Bocconi University, Milan.
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Friday 26 June
- 9:45: Opening Remarks (Gustavo Ghidini, Università degli Studi di Milano and LUISS Guido Carli, Roma)
- 10:00-13:00: Morning session (chair: Gustavo Ghidini)
- Michael Birnhack (Tel Aviv University), “Hebrew Authors and English Copyright Law in Mandate Palestine”
- Friedeman Kawohl (Bournemouth University) “Copyright History as a Means to Justify Current Positions on Copyright Politics”
- Jaime Stapleton (Birkbeck College, University ofLondon) “The Immaterial Image: Creative, Legal and Economic Theory 1435-1607”
- 14:30-18:00 Afternoon session (chair: Fiona MacMillan, Birkbeck College, University of London)
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- Martin Kretschmer and Sukhpreet Singh (Bournemouth University) “The Paradox of Television Formats: Why pay forsomething that is free?”
- Emanuela Arezzo (Luiss Guido Carli, Roma) “Towards a New Definition of Technology andtowards a Broader Definition of the TermInvention?”
- Alain Pottage (LSE) and Brad Sherman (Universityof Queensland) “Reproducing Nature”
Saturday, 27 June
- 9:30-13:00: Morning session (chair: Peter Jaszi, American University)
- Jose Bellido (Birkbeck College, University ofLondon), “Copyright at a Distance: From Action to Management (1880-1910)”
- Kathy Bowrey (University of New South Wales) “Entertainment Rights in the Age of the Franchise: Audiences, Ownership and the Fictional Universe”
- Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania) “Gag Orders: Chaplin, Comedy, and Copyright”
- Margaret Chon (University of Michigan Law School) “Marks of Rectitude”
- 14:30-16:00: Afternoon session (chair: Dan Burk, University of California, Irvine)
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- Mario Biagioli (Harvard University) “Nature and the Commons: The Vegetable Roots of Intellectual Property”
- Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman (York University, Toronto) “Theories of Authorship, Ownership and Value in Networked Sociality”
- 16:00: Concluding remarks by Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge) and Martha Woodmansee (Case Western Reserve University)