The Instability of Intellectual Property

Uppsala, Sweden July 2-4, 2014

The conference is free of charge and supported by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). The organizers will provide refreshments/lunch to all registered participants.

Hosted by the Department of Archival Science, Library & Information Science and Museology & Heritage Studies (ALM), Uppsala University in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University and Linköping University in Sweden.

By choosing the theme of The Instability of Intellectual Property for the 2014 ISHTIP workshop at Uppsala University we want to focus on the ways in which intellectual property moves and travels across disciplinary, legal, linguistic, and geopolitical borders.

Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property – Special ISHTIP 2014 Issue
Accepted presenters will be invited to submit their papers to a special issue of the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property devoted entirely to the 2014 ISHTIP Workshop and the “Instability of Intellectual Property” theme. More information will follow during the spring.

Provisional Programme

Download a PDF version of the programme.

The programme is also available as a web page here.

Uppsala

Uppsala University

Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest Nordic university. Carolus Linneaus, Olof Rudbeck and Anders Celsius are some of Uppsala’s most well-known historic figures. Today, Uppsala University is home to more than 40.000 students (More Information).

Registration

Attending ISHTIP is free of charge but places are limited. If you wish to join us in Uppsala, please use the Eventbrite form below.

Getting here

Uppsala is just 15-20 minutes north of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. Stockholm is 30 minutes south of the airport. From Arlanda you can take a bus, train or taxi to Uppsala.

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Hotels

The organizers have reserved a number of rooms in three different hotels, all within a 5-minute walk from the University Main Building where the workshop will take place. Participants should contact the hotels directly to reserve a room, indicating a preference for single or double accommodation, and whether a double room is acceptable in lieu of a single. Again, these rooms will be allocated according to the order of receipt of requests. Payment will be made by participants directly to respective hotel, but in order to benefit from the preferential workshop rates, participants need to quote the reference indicated below at the time of booking. Rooms have been reserved for the period of July 1 to July 5, and will be held by the hotels until May 31, when they become available for general booking. Room prices are given in Swedish Kronor/Euro/U.S. dollars and include a breakfast buffé (but please note that the exchange rate may fluctuate!).

Hotel Uppsala http://www.profilhotels.com/hoteluppsala/
E-mail: hoteluppsala@profilhotels.se
Tel. +46 (0)18 480 50 07
Single/double: 669/ 869 SEK     77/100 €                105/135 $
Reference: 140494

Clarion Hotell Gillet http://www.clarionhotelgillet.com
E-mail: cl.uppsala@choice.se
Tel. +46 (0)18 -68 18 00
Single/double: 580/880 SEK     65/100€                90/135 $
Reference: 82332

First Hotell Linné http://www.firsthotels.se/linne
E-mail: Linne@firsthotels.se
Tel. +46 (0)18 10 20 00
Single/double: 690/890 SEK     78/100€                106/136 $
Reference: -30UPP010714

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.

>> Programme <<

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)

An updated list of members of the ISHTIP Executive and Advisory Board has been posted.

Information is now posted about the Third Annual ISHTIP workshop to be held at Griffith University Brisbane Australia 5-6 July 2011 . This includes a call for abstracts and registration information.

See here