Programme: THE SOCIETY FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON COPYRIGHT ISSUES (SERCI) ANNUAL CONGRESS

  8:30 am
[Auditorium]

WELCOMING ADDRESS / DISCOURS DE BIENVENUE

  9:00 am
[Auditorium]

INVITED SERCI LECTURE
Chair: Ruth Towse (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

William Baumol (New York University, Princeton University)
Intellectual Property – How Dissemination is Promoted by the Right to Keep it to Yourself

11:00 am

BREAK / PAUSE

11:15 am

[St-Charles]
FILE SHARING
Chair: Joelle Farchy (Université Paris-Sud 11 & Paris 1)

Norbert Michel (The Heritage Foundation)
The Impact of Digital File Sharing on the Music Industry

Fabrice Rochelandet, Fabrice Le Guel (Université Paris-Sud 11)
The Unauthorised Sharing Through P2P Networks: An Empirical Investigation with French Survey Data

[Auditorium]
THE MACROECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF COPYRIGHT INDUSTRIES
Chair: Gilles McDougall (Copyright Board of Canada)

Kit Boey Chow (Senior Fellow, IP Academy, Singapore)
Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Singapore

S. Carvalho, Antônio Buainain, S. Yamamura, G. Kopke (University of Campinas)
Economic Importance of Copyright-Protected Activities in Brazil

Dimiter Gantchev (WIPO)
WIPO’s Program on Economic Research of the Copyright-Based Industries

12:45 pm

LUNCH

  2:00 pm

[St-Charles]
MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF COPYRIGHT LAW
Chair: Richard Watt (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

Julio Robledo (University of Vienna)
The Effect of Litigation on Intellectual Property and Welfare

Michael Yuan (Roger Williams University), Zhixiong Chen (Mercy College)
Comparing the Current Copyright System with Indefinately Renewable Copyright: The Effect of Information Intermediaries

[Auditorium]
COPYRIGHT LAW
Chair: Wendy Gordon (Boston University)

Estelle Derclaye (Queen Mary, University of London)
An Economic Analysis of the Contractual Protection of Databases

Ariel Katz (University of Toronto)
Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and the Presumption of Market Power

  3:00 pm

BREAK / PAUSE

  3:30 pm
[Auditorium]

ROUND TABLE SESSION – THE PRICING OF MUSIC COPYRIGHTS
Chair: Marcel Boyer (CIREQ, CIRANO, Université de Montréal)

Paul Audley (Paul Audley & Associates & York University)
Claude Brunet (Ogilvy Renault)
Lilla Csorgo (Competition Tribunal, Canada)
Fred Lazar (York University)
Gilles McDougall (Copyright Board of Canada)

  5:00 pm

BREAK / PAUSE

  5:15 pm

SERCI BUSINESS MEETING

  7:30 pm

GALA SUPPER / DINER

  8:30 am
[Auditorium]

MUSIC PIRACY
Chair: Abraham Hollander (Université de Montréal)

Stan Liebowitz (Univrsity of Texas at Dallas)
The Impact of File-Sharing 5 Years On

Brett Keintz (Deloitte Consulting / Fulbright Association)
Music Piracy in Spain

David Bounie (ENST), Marc Bourreau (CREST-LEI), Patrick Waelbroeck (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, FNRS)
Pirates or Explorers? Analysis of Music Consumption in French Graduate Schools

10:00 am

BREAK / PAUSE

10:20 am

[St-Charles]
COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF SOFTWARE
Chair: Paul Stepan (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Antônio Buainain, Cassia Mendes (University of Campinas)
Free Software, Copyleft and Trends in Intellectual Property

Heli Koski (Helsinki School of Economics, ETLA)
OSS Production and Licencing Strategies of Software Firms

[Auditorium]
STRATEGIC DETERRENCE OF COPYING
Chair: Julio Robledo (University of Vienna)

Dyuti Banerjee (Bond University), Tanmoyee Chatterjee, Ajitava Raychaudhuri (Jadavpur University)
Optimal Enforcement and Anti-copying Strategies to Counter Copyright Infringement

Joelle Farchy (Université Paris-Sud 11 & Paris 1), Heritiana Ranaivoson (Université Paris 1)
DRM and Competition: The Consequences on Cultural Diversity for the Case of the Online Music Market

11:20 am

BREAK / PAUSE

11:30 am
[Auditorium]

CURRENT ISSUES IN COPYRIGHT
Chair: Antônio Buainain (University of Campinas)

Martin Kretschmer (Bornemouth University)
The Aims of European Competition Policy Towards Copyright Collecting Societies

Giovanni Ramello (Università Carlo Cattaneo), Francesco Silva (Università di Milano)
Access Versus Exclusion to Knowledge: Balancing the Effects of Copyright on Social Creative Networks

Paul Stepan (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Availability of Feature Films in the Internet

  1:00 pm

LUNCH

  2:15 pm
[Auditorium]

AUTHOR REMUNERATION (1)
Chair: Giovanni Ramello (Università Carlo Cattaneo)

Stan Liebowitz (University of Texas at Dallas)
Micropayments for Intellectual Properties: Price Discrimination or Unbundling, or Both?

Ville Oksanen, Mikko Valimaki (Helsinki University of Technology)
Alternative Compensation Methods and ICT Development

  3:15 pm

BREAK / PAUSE

  3:30 pm
[Auditorium]

AUTHOR REMUNERATION (2)
Chair: Ville Oksanen (Helsinki University of Technology)

Marcel Boyer (CIREQ, CIRANO, Université de Montréal)
Equitable Remuneration for Performers and Producers of Recorded Musical Works: Underlying Principles

Ruth Towse (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Richard Watt (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
A Model of Author Time Allocation

  4:30 pm

FINAL COMMENTS / CULTURE