Chun-Chi Hung, Queen Mary, London University, UK, ‘Can Indigenous People’s Traditional Cultural Expressions be a Means of Resistance against the Power of Global Intellectual Property Law?’

Andrea Wallace, Glasgow University and National Library of Scotland, UK, ‘Cultural Institutions and Surrogate Intellectual Property Rights: Resisting an Artwork’s Transfer into the Public Domain’

Claudy Op den Kamp, Swinburne Law School, Australia, ‘Film Archives as ‘Sites of Resistance’: Exploiting the Public Domain

Natacha Estèves, Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France, ‘‘All are Patent are Belong to You?” ‘Open Patents’ as a Form of Resistance

Chair: Gregory Hagen, University of Calgary, Canada

Betsy Rosenblatt, Whittier Law School, USA, ‘Fair Use as Resistance’ –  Commentator: Danilo Mandic, University of Westminster, UK

Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law, USA, ‘Counting Patents as Path to Full Citizenship: The Case of American Suffragists’ – Commentator: Kathy Bowrey, University of New South Wales, Australia

Chair: Peter Decherney, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Joe Karaganis, The American Assembly, Columbia University, USA, ‘Shadow Libraries’ – Commentator: Maria Lilla’ Montagnani, Bocconi University, Italy

Balazs Bodo, IVIR, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, ‘Custodians.online – An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement’ – Commentator: Martin Kretschmer, CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK

Chair: Peter Jaszi, American University, Washington College of Law, USA

Augusta Dimou, University of Leipzig, Germany, ‘Global Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights and ‘Reflex Reactions’ from the World’s Peripheries: A Contribution to the History of IP in the Interwar Period’ – Commentator: Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Université Lille, France

Neil Netanel, UCLA School of Law, USA,  ‘Jewish Copyright Law as Imperfect Resistance’ – Commentator: Diana V. Ivanova, Belarusian State University, Belarus

Stef van Gompel, IVIR, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, ‘Legal pragmatism in nineteenth-century intellectual property lawmaking: A case study of the 1869 patent abolition in the Netherlands’ – Commentator: Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law, USA

Chair: Stina Teilmann-Lock, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Marc Perlman, Brown University, USA, ‘Two Ways to Defend the Public Domain’ – Commentator:  Chen Wei Zhu, University of Birmingham, UK

Kevin Emerson Collins, Washington University School of Law, USA ‘Copyright and Architectural Practice in the United States’ – Commentator: Elena Cooper, CREATe, Glasgow University, UK

Marta Iljadica, Southampton University, UK, ‘Publicly Displayed Works and the Right to the City’ – Commentator: Merima Bruncevic, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Chair: Marianne Dahlén, Uppsala University, Sweden

Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv University, Israel, ‘National Trademark’ – Commentator: Lionel Bently, Cambridge University, UK

Lucero Ibarra Rojas, Centre for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE), Mexico, ‘Beyond Trademarks: What Law Says and What Law Means’ – Commentator: Luke McDonagh, City University, UK

Chair: Maurizio Borghi, Bournemouth University, UK

Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer, New York University School of Law, USA, ‘Are We Running Out of Trademarks? Evidence from the U.S. PTO Principal Register’ – Commentator: Jose Bellido, University of Kent, UK

Alexander Peukert, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ‘Resisting the Ontology of IP: IP Rights as the Regulation of Actions’  – Commentator:  Jonathan Griffiths, Queen Mary, UK

Dan Burk, University of California, Irvine, USA, ‘Copyright and the Cybernetic Circuit’ – Commentator: Christopher Buccafusco, Cardozo Law School, USA