[Air-L] Fwd: [Ipprofs] Conference: Access to Material and Immaterial Goods

[Dan L. Burk]

Of possible interest. Further information is available here:
registration [1] 

DLB 

Access to Material and Immaterial Goods 

Jan. 23-24, 2015 

University of Lucerne, Switzerland 

The aim of the conference is to explore the relationship between
intellectual property and its physical materialisations, with a
particular focus on the issue of access and the challenges of new
technologies. Though intellectual property protects the intangible, it
is indisputable that intellectual property goods (whether they be
copyrighted works, patented inventions or trade marks) classically had
to be physically materialised in order to be enjoyed or used, such as on
canvas, as a pharmaceutical and trade marked products. This
materialisation can, however, challenge our theoretical notion of the
intangible and the tangible as constituting discrete forms of property
and can have serious consequences on access to intellectual property
goods. A classic example is that of an owner of an original art work,
who may not own the copyright, but who can control access to the work
and thereby exert copyright-like rights. New technologies raise further
problems relating to the relationship between the intangible and
tangible. For example, biotechnology patents that cover or encompass
specific cell lines that are not reproducible from the patent disclosure
could be seen as protecting something tangible. What exactly constitutes
materialisation is also of significance. As an illustration, whether
digital reproductions of copyrighted works are considered to be
physically materialised can affect the doctrine of exhaustion and, thus,
access to a "second-hand" market. Indeed, the move away from classical
analogue materialisation, as a consequence of the digital age,
highlights the issue of what copyright means when there is no copy in
the classical sense. Our aim is to address the divide between the
intangible and the tangible from the perspective of issues of access and
problems relating to new technologies. 

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