Copyright, Education, and Disability: Past, Present, and Future

Copyright Reform in Ireland and Reflections on the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty

  4 April 2014

6 – 7.30pm

Seminar Room THB-G010, The Hardiman Building
National University of Ireland, Galway

https://www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp/forthcoming_events.html

A seminar organized jointly by DREAM (https://www.nuigalway.ie/dream/), DISCIT (http://www.discit.edu) and the Centre for Disability Law & Policy (NUI Galway) (https://www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp/)

Main Speaker:
Dr. Eoin O’Dell, Associate Professor of Law, Trinity College & Chair of the Copyright Review Committee of Ireland.

Respondents: 
Samantha Holman, CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency
Abigail Rekas, Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow
Neil O'Brien, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway

The Centre for Disability Law & Policy is pleased to announce a public seminar on copyright reform in Ireland on 4 April, 2014 at 6pm. The seminar will reflect on the recent Copyright Review Committee report, Modernising Copyright, and the new World Intellectual Property Organisation Marrakesh Treaty, aimed at creating exceptions and limitations to benefit persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled, as well as easing cross-border transfer of accessible format books.

Dr. Eoin O'Dell, one of the authors of the Modernising Copyright, will speak on the experiences of academics, students and persons with disabilities dealing with copyright law and practice. It will begin with an overview of the basic principles of copyright, having regard to existing legislation and precedents (copyright past). It will then look at the important current copyright issues - in particular the problems which copyright law poses for people in education and for people with a disability (copyright present). And it will conclude with how these issues might change for the better, if current reform proposals are implemented and if international treaties are implemented (copyright future).

RSVP to Abigail.rekas@nuigalway.ie