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The Future of Things: The Copyright Work as Legal Object

Vendredi, 5 octobre, 2012 12:30à14:00
Pavillon Chancellor-Day NCDH 202, 3644, rue Peel, Montréal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Un séminaire du CPPI avec le professeur Michael J. Madison, de l'École de droit de l'Université de Pittsburgh.

Prière de confirmer votre présence auprès de M. Francis Lord (francis.lord [at] mail.mcgill.ca). Une demande d'accréditation a été déposée auprès du Barreau du Québec pour fins de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes.

Résumé 

(Disponible en anglais seulement). This presentation explores the meanings and functions of the objects of intellectual property: the work of authorship (or copyright work) in copyright, the invention in patent, and the mark and the sign in trademark. It is usually argued that the central challenge in understanding the copyright work is to develop a sensible method for appreciating its boundaries, in the sense of its metaphorical "metes and bounds." The boundaries might be established by deferring to the intention of the author, or by constructing a sense of the work with reference to reader, viewer, or listener experience, or perhaps by mediating between those two poles.

The presentation re-considers the copyright work as a fundamental object of copyright. It rejects the premise that the purpose of interpreting the work is to properly understand its metes and bounds, either as a concept or as a token. The de-materialization of the work over the last century made that project deeply problematic from the beginning of modern copyright, and digital technology has made it even more difficult.

I argue instead that the idea of the work plays a central role in constructing expressive culture itself.

À propos du conférencier

Michael J. Madison est professeur de droit et directeur du Innovation Practice Institute à l'École de droit de l'Université de Pittsburgh, à Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanie, EUA. Il se spécialise dans le droit, la politique et la théorie de la propriété intellectuelle (PI). Il a publié ses recherches entre autres dans les revues de droit de Cornell University, Fordham University, Boston College, University of Notre Dame, College of William & Mary, et Case Western Reserve University. On peut consulter sa biographie et sa liste de publications à http://madisonian.net.

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