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Intellectual Property and The Image

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11 March 2024 - 11 March 2024

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Kentworthy Hall, St Mary's College, Durham University, Elvet Hill Rd, Durham DH1 3LR

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Join us for an afternoon workshop with Dr Angelia Jia Wang and Dr Van Anh Le (Durham Law School), on intellectual property (IP) in relation to ‘the visual’. Come prepared for an eye-opening session! Part of the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Visual Methods Workshop Series.

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Intellectual Property and 'The Image'  

In this two-part workshop, we'll cover an introduction to copyright law, as applied to visual materials, across analogue and digital forms, from basic principles, how to use and attribute images and their derivatives, how to protect our own materials from conception to commercialisation, and AI-related issues for images in the digital world. 

These sessions are suitable for people without any background in Law, but will also provide worthwhile interest and insights for law specialists.  

Part 1: Dr Van Anh Le:

  1. Subject matters of copyright 
  2. Main copyright principles: Ideas/expression; Territory; Fixation
  3. Copyright infringement
  4. Fair use/fair dealing
  5. Moral rights

Part 2: Dr Angelia (Jia) Wang:

  1. Authorship/ownership
  2. Terms of protection
  3. The life cycle of commercialisation: registration; licensing through collective society; creative commons licenses
  4. AI-related issues: e.g.:
    • Can prompts be protected by copyright?
    • Can the style of artwork be protected?
    • Who can be the author/owner of an AI-generated artwork? 

The following readings offer a suitable background preparation for those attending the workshop:

 

Speakers

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Jia Wang

Associate Professor in the Durham Law School; Fellow in the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy

Dr Angelia Jia WANG is an Associate Professor at the Law School, Durham University. Previous experience includes a Teaching Fellowship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Research Fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (now the Berkman Klein Centre), Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Law School, Singapore Management University. Her research interests include intellectual property law, law and technology and corporate law.

Van Anh Le (portrait)

Van Anh Le

Assistant Professor in IP Law in the Durham Law School

Dr Van Anh Le joined Durham Law School in 2023 as an Assistant Professor of IP Law. Following LLP and PhD studies at Bangor University (UK) and a research scholarship at the Max Planck Institute, her distinguished career has included positions at Oxford University, Warwick University, and Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (Vietnam). Her specialism in IP and access to medicines in developing countries underpins her current activities, influencing policy in Southeast Asia through IP law.

Pricing

Free to attend

Where and when

Kentworthy Hall, St Mary's College, Durham University, Elvet Hill Rd, Durham DH1 3LR

11th March, 2024, 12:00-5:00 pm (includes lunch and refreshments)

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