8th Jan 2016 5:00pm
King's College, Strand London, WC2R 2LS
Event
Featuring critically and/or politically motivated examples alongside artistic and creative narrative driven experimentations, speakers at the event present and consider these works alongside established film industry practices through the lens of intellectual property.
A panel of creators, academics and IP law specialists from the UK, US and EU will debate the opportunities, challenges and futures of audiovisual content reuse in the context of the currently shifting sands of territory specific intellectual property legislation set against the wider backdrop of the global digital economy.
Confirmed speakers and panelists:
Richard Misek is a film theorist and montagist. His essay film Rohmer in Paris (2013) has screened at over twenty film festivals on five continents, and at venues including the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the BFI and Barbican (London), and the Museum of Moving Image and Anthology Film Archives (New York). He is currently Principal Investigator on the ARHC project, ‘The Audiovisual Essay: a digital methodology for film and media studies’. He lectures in digital arts at the University of Kent.
Graham Rawle is an internationally renowned writer and collage artist and lectures in visual communication at the University of Brighton. Graham's visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly 'Lost Consonants' first appeared in the weekend Guardian in 1990 and ran for 15 years. He has produced other regular series for the press, while his book Woman's World has been celebrated world-wide.
Prof. Charlotte Waelde is Professor of Intellectual Property Law. Her focus is on the interface between intellectual property law and changing technologies, the changes in the law wrought by those technologies, and the impact that those changes have on the way that the law is both perceived and used by the affected communities. Prof. Waelde is the IP consultant on the TRI-PACT project.
Julia Reda has been a Member of the European Parliament representing Germany since 2014. She is Vice-President of the Greens/EFA group and the president of the Young Pirates of Europe. She has declared to make copyright reform her focus for the legislative term.
Dr. Owen Gallagher is a co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2014) and has published a number of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers on remix culture, intellectual property and visual semiotics. He is the founder of TotalRecut.com, an online community archive of remix videos, and a co-founder of the Remix Theory & Praxis seminar group. Owen received his PhD in Visual Culture from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and is a lecturer of web media (filmmaking, animation, game design) at Bahrain Polytechnic.
Daniel Herbert is an associate professor in Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. His research examines the relationships between the media industries, geography, and cultural identities. He is author of Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (UC Press, 2014). His essays appear inCanadian Journal of Film Studies, Creative Industries Journal, Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video, as well as in several edited collections.
