IMPORTANT NOTICE

Due to the cancellation of the London Book Fair, the Charles Clark Memorial Lecture will not be going ahead. Thank you for your support of this unique event; we hope to see you at the Fair in 2021.

Professor Silke von Lewinski will deliver the Charles Clark Memorial Lecture at The London Book Fair on Tuesday 10th March 2020.

Silke von Lewinski is tenured at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, and specialises in international and European copyright law. Prof. von Lewinski is an Adjunct Professor at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, Munich, and Associate Professor at Zagreb University.

Professor von Lewinski will deliver a 30-minute lecture followed by a moderated Q&A. The lecture will end with a drinks reception for attendees.

Since its inception in 2008, the Charles Clark Memorial Lecture has grown to be the most important copyright event at The London Book Fair—the home of global copyright trading in the publishing industry. Supported by representative bodies from across the publishing industry—the Publishers Association, Copyright Licensing Agency, the Federation of European Publishers, the Publishers’ Licensing Services and the International Publishers Association—the lecture focusses on key developments in the world of copyright.

The event will bring together copyright experts, from academics to practitioners, publishing professionals, rights managers, authors, artists, professionals from the wider creative industries and those interested in the future of copyright for publishing and IP.

Please note: you must have a valid ticket to The London Book Fair 2020 to attend this event.

Prof. Silke von Lewinski

Prof. von Lewinski has frequently been a consulting legal expert for the European Commission (EC), including work on the Rental Rights Directive (drafting of EC proposal and steering it through the legislative process), and regarding the WIPO Diplomatic Conference 1996 (preparation; member of the EC delegation). At the WIPO Diplomatic Conferences 2000 and 2012 (Audiovisual Performances; outcome: Beijing Treaty) and 2013 (Access for Visually Impaired Persons; outcome: Marrakesh Treaty), she was a delegate for Germany (2012 and 2013, Deputy Head of Delegation). She has been the chief legal expert consulting the governments of Eastern and Central European and former Soviet countries on their copyright legislation in the framework of the initial EC’s TA programs from 1995 and has been working under subsequent programs, including in Asia.

Her book publications include The WIPO Treaties on Copyright, 2nd ed. OUP 2015, with Rein-bothe (1st ed: The WIPO Treaties 1996 (London 2002; Chinese ed. 2008, Renmin University Press), the treatise International Copyright Law and Policy (OUP 2008, Chinese ed. 2017), and, with MM Walter et al., European Copyright Law (OUP 2010); she edited Indigenous Heritage and Intellectual Property (Kluwer, 2004, 2nd ed. 2008; Chinese ed. 2011, China Democracy and Legality), and Copyright throughout the World (West Thomson, 2008, with annual updates).

Frequent visiting professorships worldwide (Paris XI; Toulouse 1; University of Laval, Québec; University of Melbourne; China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing) include First Walter Minton Visiting Scholar at Columbia University School of Law, New York (1998) and repeated invitations; the First Distinguished Visitor to the IP Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA, 2002); and The Hosier Distinguished Visiting IP Scholar, DePaul University, Chicago, 2005.

Membership includes Vice President of ALAI, President of ALAI Germany; Editorial Board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA; International Editorial Board of “Les Cahiers de la Propriété Intellectuelle”, Canada; Member of Administrative Council of VG Wort.

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Charles Clark Memorial Lecture 2020