Fourth Annual ISHTIP Workshop

Intellectual Property as cultural technology

25-26 June 2012

London School of Economics, London UK

Workshop website

 

Monday 25 June

9.00 – Narrating creativity

Chair: Martha Woodmansee (Case Western Reserve)

• Lorraine Piroux (Rutgers), ‘What Can the Possessed Possess?’; Intellectual Property, Authorship, and Diderot’s Two Conceptions of Genius’
• Barton Beebe (NYU), ‘Bleistein; Or, intellectual property law and the problem of aesthetic progress’.
• Dan L Burk (UC Irvine) & Jessica Reyman (Northern Illinois), ‘Patents as genre’.

11.30 – IP as cultural technology (1) 

Chair: Luke McDonagh (LSE)

• Plamena Popova (UniBIT), ‘Copyright law: impacts on urban shaping’
• Matteo Ferrari  (Trento/McGill) ‘GI Narratives’
• Jessica Silbey (Suffolk), ‘The work of craft: work makes work’

14.30 – IP as cultural technology (2)

Chair: Mario Biagioli (UC Davis)

• Catherine M. Montgomery and Javier Lezaun (Oxford), ‘Virtual drug development and the material trans/missions of intellectual property’.
• Gregory Radick (Leeds), ‘Understanding technoscience: The case for an expanded conception of intellectual property’.
• Steven Wilf (Connecticut), ‘The imagined patent in late nineteenth-century America’.
• Lida Barner (UCL), ‘Deviating from the norm? ‘Jewish inventors’ in Nazi Germany’.

 

Tuesday 26 June

9.00 – Techniques of creative appropriation

Chair: Simon Stern (Toronto)

• Laura J Murray (Queens), ‘Nineteenth-century US newspaper exchanges: Legal, Cultural, and Professional Contexts’
• Kirsty Robertson (Western Ontario), ‘The art of the copy: A look at appropriation, copyright and labour’.
• Mario Biagioli (UC Davis), ‘Strange appropriations: the plagiarist function in science’.
• Martin Fredriksson (Linköping), ‘The ideology of piracy – a study of pirate parties in North America’.

11.15 – Forensic technologies

Chair: Dev Gangjee (LSE)

• Michele Gazzola (Humboldt) , Linguistic Justice and Intellectual Property: An Evaluation of the Distributive Effects of the Language Regime of the European Patent Office
• Niels Van Dijk (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Immaterial Matters of Dispute. A Cartography of Intellectual Rights in Practice
• Michael J Madison (Pittsburgh), The Wages of the Work, in Copyright and Beyond

14.00 – Culturing knowledge

Chair: Josh Sarnoff (De Paul)

•  Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside), “Intellectual Property and the Culture of Exploration”
• Chloe S Georas (Puerto Rico), The “Internet-Museum” and Digital Debris
• Tina Piper (McGill), The military origins of intellectual property law.

16.30   Closing discussion

Chair: Kathy Bowrey (UNSW)

• Emanuela Arezzo, Luiss Guido Carli, Roma
• Jose Bellido, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Lionel Bently, Cambridge U
• Mario Biagioli, Harvard U
• Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv U
• Maurizio Borghi, Brunel U
• Kathy Bowrey, University of New South Wales
• Dan L. Burk, U California, Irvine
• Margaret Chon, University of Michigan Law School
• Rosemary J. Coombe, York University, Toronto
• Peter Decherney, University of Pennsylvania
• Johanna Gibson, Queen Mary U
• Gustavo Ghidini, U degli Studi di Milano
• Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén, Uppsala U
• Andrew Herman, York University, Toronto
• Peter Jaszi, American U
• Friedeman Kawohl, Bournemouth U
• Martin Kretschmer, Bournemouth U
• Fiona MacMillan, Birkbeck, University of London
• Luca Molà, Warwick U
• Maria Lilla Montagnani, Bocconi U
• Alain Pottage, LSE
• Katarina Renman-Claesson, Stockholm U
• Brad Sherman, University of Queensland
• Sukhpreet Singh, Bournemouth U
• Jamie Stapleton, Birkbeck, University of London
• Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve U

 

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)
• • 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)

• • 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)