Can they really steal your fair use?
Rethinking copyright exceptions in a fundamental rights perspective
The lecture focuses on the recent trends in copyright exceptions. Over the last decades the original balance drawn by international and national copyright laws has been materially altered by a number of technological, legislative and economic phenomena. Building on a comparative analysis of the EU and US experiences before and after the WIPO-WTO harmonization treaties, the talk highlights new clashes between copyright and fundamental rights, calling for a revised interpretation of copyright exceptions in standardized contractual relationships.
Caterina Sganga (Ph.D Sant’Anna, Pisa, LL.M. Yale) is a Research Fellow at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, where she completed her doctoral degree in early 2011. She is research and teaching assistant in Private Comparative Law at University of Pisa, and was adjunct lecturer in Business Law at CEU Business School in the academic year 2010/11. At Sant’Anna she worked as executive coordinator of the Permanent Observatory of Personal Injuries and authored several articles on comparative tort law, property law and intellectual property, published in Italian and American law journals. She carried out research at WIPO (Geneva) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (Munich), and was visiting researcher at the Center for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University (Montreal). She is attorney-at-law at the Italian State Bar and passed the New York Bar Exam in November 2009.