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Lecture - Copyright Law Reform and Asian Development

When: Monday, December 11, 2017 - 12:00 to 13:30
Venue: SMU School of Law Level 5, Meeting room 5.04, 55 Armenian Street, Singapore 179943

Synopsis

The “Asia-Pacific region” is often so broadly defined that it becomes hard to argue that countries have much in common. What is possible, however, is to find similarities between countries following similar development models and pathways. In parts of East and Southeast Asia, a development model emerged after World War II that responded to foreign pressure for law reform with the selective adaptation of a variety of foreign models and selective implementation using administrative laws with wide discretionary powers. In copyright and other fields of IP, foreign pressure increased from the middle of the 1980s onwards. The presentation traces these developments and provides examples of how countries reacted in the field of copyright. While some countries have turned from policies tolerating infringement to strong promotion of intellectual property, others continue the process of selective adaptation and attempt to mould concepts introduced from elsewhere into national copyright laws that serve domestic economic and social needs.

 

Speaker

Christoph ANTONS is Professor of Law at the Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle, Australia. He is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich; Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn; and Senior Associate at the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the University of Melbourne. He is currently Project Leader of three Australian Research Council funded projects: ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage across Borders: Law, Structures and Strategies in China and its ASEAN Neighbours; ‘Building an Intellectual Property System: The Indonesian Experience’ and ‘Food security and the governance of local knowledge in India and Indonesia’. His latest book publications are Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region (Springer, 2015, co-edited with Reto Hilty) and The Routledge Handbook of Asian Law (2017). 
 

Chair

Kung-Chung LIU holds LL.B. and LL.M. from National Taiwan University and a Doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian Universitaet (University of Munich). He was a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan until 2017. In 2003, he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and  Visiting Senior Research Fellow for the IP Academy of Singapore. Professor Liu has served as one of the founding Commissioners of the National Communications Commission in Taiwan between 2006 and 2007. In 2014-15, he was a Visiting Professor at the School of Law, Singapore Management University, and the Founding Director of the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA). In addition, he has been co-appointed Professor at the Renmin University, China (2017), and the Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (since 2010).
 

This event is by invitation only.

Last updated on 02 Nov 2017 .