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Speaker: Professor Haochen Sun Biography: Haochen Sun is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. His recent scholarship has focused on the theoretical and policy foundations of intellectual property, Chinese intellectual property law, and technology law and the public interest. He has published numerous articles and co-edited books published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. His opinions about intellectual property and technology law have appeared in many media outlets such as Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, South China Morning Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Abstract: In this seminar, Haochen Sun will discuss his groundbreaking work that analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest. He examines technology companies' growing power and their increasing disregard for the public good. To tackle this asymmetry of power and responsibility, he argues that we must reexamine the nature and scope of the right to technology and dynamically protect it as a human right under international law, a collective right under domestic civil rights law, and potentially a fundamental right under domestic constitutional law. He also develops the concept of fundamental corporate responsibility requiring technology companies to compensate users for their contributions, assume an active role responsibility in upholding the public interest, and counter injustices caused by technological developments. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Speaker: Professor Haochen Sun Biography: Haochen Sun is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. His recent scholarship has focused on the theoretical and policy foundations of intellectual property, Chinese intellectual property law, and technology law and the public interest. He has published numerous articles and co-edited books published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. His opinions about intellectual property and technology law have appeared in many media outlets such as Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, South China Morning Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Abstract: In this seminar, Haochen Sun will discuss his groundbreaking work that analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest. He examines technology companies' growing power and their increasing disregard for the public good. To tackle this asymmetry of power and responsibility, he argues that we must reexamine the nature and scope of the right to technology and dynamically protect it as a human right under international law, a collective right under domestic civil rights law, and potentially a fundamental right under domestic constitutional law. He also develops the concept of fundamental corporate responsibility requiring technology companies to compensate users for their contributions, assume an active role responsibility in upholding the public interest, and counter injustices caused by technological developments. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars

Speaker: Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, NYW Law School Biography: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYU Law School and a Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. She is a leading scholar of intellectual property law as well as other science and technology topics. She was a research chemist prior to law school, and later clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger of the US Supreme Court. Among her works on international intellectual property issues are A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: Building a Resilient International Intellectual Property System(2012, with Graeme Dinwoodie), and several co-edited books, including Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st century: Integrating Incentives, Trade, Development, Culture, and Human Rights (2018, with Elizabeth Siew Kuan Ng); and the IILJ Project volume Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle Over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (2014, with César Rodríguez-Garavito). She was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge University for 2019–20. Abstract: Many countries have responded (or have considered responding) to the COVID pandemic by modifying their intellectual property laws to ensure the availability of vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and related information. Some have asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a waiver to excuse any steps they might take that are inconsistent with obligations under the TRIPS Agreement. Although a waiver would protect WTO members from challenges in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, a state that is a party to an international investment agreement (IIA) that includes investor-state dispute resolution has something else to worry about. Investors could claim that its actions amount to an indirect expropriation or a denial fair and equitable treatment in violation of the obligations in the IIA. In this piece, I conduct a thought experiment on how such suits might unfold. The first part describes how states sought or may seek to exercise control over the knowledge and products needed to protect public health during the global pandemic. The second part considers the challenges that investors might lodge and how they might be resolved. I identify the places where safeguards in IIAs that are intended to protect sovereign authority over healthcare may fall short. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Speaker: Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, NYW Law School Biography: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYU Law School and a Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. She is a leading scholar of intellectual property law as well as other science and technology topics. She was a research chemist prior to law school, and later clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger of the US Supreme Court. Among her works on international intellectual property issues are A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: Building a Resilient International Intellectual Property System(2012, with Graeme Dinwoodie), and several co-edited books, including Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st century: Integrating Incentives, Trade, Development, Culture, and Human Rights (2018, with Elizabeth Siew Kuan Ng); and the IILJ Project volume Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle Over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (2014, with César Rodríguez-Garavito). She was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge University for 2019–20. Abstract: Many countries have responded (or have considered responding) to the COVID pandemic by modifying their intellectual property laws to ensure the availability of vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and related information. Some have asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a waiver to excuse any steps they might take that are inconsistent with obligations under the TRIPS Agreement. Although a waiver would protect WTO members from challenges in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, a state that is a party to an international investment agreement (IIA) that includes investor-state dispute resolution has something else to worry about. Investors could claim that its actions amount to an indirect expropriation or a denial fair and equitable treatment in violation of the obligations in the IIA. In this piece, I conduct a thought experiment on how such suits might unfold. The first part describes how states sought or may seek to exercise control over the knowledge and products needed to protect public health during the global pandemic. The second part considers the challenges that investors might lodge and how they might be resolved. I identify the places where safeguards in IIAs that are intended to protect sovereign authority over healthcare may fall short. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars

Dr Peter Coe (University of Reading) gave an evening seminar entitled "Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism" on 11 March 2022 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Biography: Dr Peter Coe has been a Lecturer in Law specialising in Media Law and Criminal Law at the University of Reading since September 2019. Prior to this, he was a practising barrister specialising in privacy, defamation and reputation management, having been Called to Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 2007 as a Lord Denning Scholar and Hardwicke Entrance Scholar. He has also held a Senior Lectureship in Law at Aston University, where he taught Media Law and Criminal Law. His primary research interests are: (i) citizen journalism's impact on free speech, media freedom and regulation, and the concepts of privacy and reputation; (ii) defamation, including the protection of corporate reputation; (iii) media power and plurality, the role the media plays within society and its impact on democracy. His work in these areas has been published in leading journals such as Legal Studies, the University of Melbourne's Media & Arts Law Review, the Journal of Business Law and Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. Peter is also co-editor (with Professor Paul Wragg) of "Landmark Cases in Privacy Law" which will be published by Hart Publishing in 2022. In 2021, his research led him to be invited to join the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Information Law and Policy Centre as an Associate Research Fellow, having been a Research Associate at the ILPC since 2018. In 2020 he was also appointed as an Advisor to the University of East London's Online Harms and Cyber Crime Unit. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars

Dr Peter Coe (University of Reading) gave an evening seminar entitled "Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism" on 11 March 2022 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Biography: Dr Peter Coe has been a Lecturer in Law specialising in Media Law and Criminal Law at the University of Reading since September 2019. Prior to this, he was a practising barrister specialising in privacy, defamation and reputation management, having been Called to Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 2007 as a Lord Denning Scholar and Hardwicke Entrance Scholar. He has also held a Senior Lectureship in Law at Aston University, where he taught Media Law and Criminal Law. His primary research interests are: (i) citizen journalism's impact on free speech, media freedom and regulation, and the concepts of privacy and reputation; (ii) defamation, including the protection of corporate reputation; (iii) media power and plurality, the role the media plays within society and its impact on democracy. His work in these areas has been published in leading journals such as Legal Studies, the University of Melbourne's Media & Arts Law Review, the Journal of Business Law and Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. Peter is also co-editor (with Professor Paul Wragg) of "Landmark Cases in Privacy Law" which will be published by Hart Publishing in 2022. In 2021, his research led him to be invited to join the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Information Law and Policy Centre as an Associate Research Fellow, having been a Research Associate at the ILPC since 2018. In 2020 he was also appointed as an Advisor to the University of East London's Online Harms and Cyber Crime Unit. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars

Speaker: Professor Herbert Zech, Humboldt University, Berlin Biography: Professor Dr. Herbert Zech is Chair of Civil Law, Technology Law and IT Law at Humboldt University, Berlin and Director at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Abstract: In the discussion about the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) on the one hand and access to data for training purposes on the other hand, one aspect has so far been neglected: the liability of data providers. AI training data have a different damage potential than data that are only used in "conventional" big data analyses. This raises the question of how existing liability rules apply and whether these rules should be changed. From a regulatory point of view, the parallel between intellectual property protection and civil liability should also be considered. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars

Speaker: Professor Herbert Zech, Humboldt University, Berlin Biography: Professor Dr. Herbert Zech is Chair of Civil Law, Technology Law and IT Law at Humboldt University, Berlin and Director at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Abstract: In the discussion about the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) on the one hand and access to data for training purposes on the other hand, one aspect has so far been neglected: the liability of data providers. AI training data have a different damage potential than data that are only used in "conventional" big data analyses. This raises the question of how existing liability rules apply and whether these rules should be changed. From a regulatory point of view, the parallel between intellectual property protection and civil liability should also be considered. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Saturday 7 March 2020, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the Annual Spring Conference 2020 entitled 'Is IP Good for Our Health?'. This conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policymakers to examine the latest decisions, research and political developments in intellectual property and health. For more information about the conference and CIPIL, see https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference