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From: Ville Oksanen ville.oksanen@effi.org
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Hi,
we are in process of organizing the seminar below. It is turning to be quite interesting, we have already 4 persons coming from EPO etc. there's going to be some rather interesting discussions..
Ville
PS: NGO rate is the same as the academic rate.
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Workshop: IPR Protection of Software: Copyright, Patent, and/or Open Source?
*Aim*
The aim of the workshop is to bring together the communities of software economists, lawyers and decision makers to discuss the state of research and practice on dealing with intellectual property rights and competion law on software.
*Date*
21.9-22.9.2006
*Venue*
Hotel Linna Helsinki, Finland Lönnrotinkatu 29 http://www.palacekamp.fi/etusivu.asp?lang=en&rest=hotelLinna
Rooms: single 120 eur, double 140 eur.
*Registration and Participation Fee*
Please send email about the registration to: Ville.Oksanen@hut.fi before 1st of September.
Fees: Academic: 85 EUR Corporate: 400 EUR
The fee should be payed to BANK-ID: SAMPO / account of Scandinavian Association of Law and Economics ACCOUNT NR: 800019-70984622 IBAN: FI1580001970984622 BIC: PSPBFIHH Reference: SERCI WORKSHOP
The registration fee includes admission to the workshop, breakfast and lunch on Friday and a copy of the proceedings.
*** Programme *** Day 1. 21.-22.9.2006
13:00
Richard Watt (SERCI) / Juha Laine (Helsinki University of Technology) - Opening of the Seminar
13:15
Jyrki Katainen Chairman, The Commitee for the Future, Finnish parliament - Keynote Speech
13:50
Mr. Jukka Liedes (Ministry of Education) - The History of Software Copyright
Professor Richard Watt - The History of Software Econonomics
14:50 Break
15:00 Presentation
Professor Stan Liebowitz (University of Texas) - What Economics Can Teach Us about Regulation in Software
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Presentation
Professor Francois Leveque (Ecole des mines de Paris) - Software, Antitrust and IPRs
17:30 Closing day 1.
19:30 Dinner
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Day 2. - 22.9.
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00 Presentations - Empirical view on Software Industry
Professor Heli Koski (Helsinki School of Economics) - The Results of EU-wide Software Business Survey
Professor Knut Blind (Technical University in Berlin) - The European Software Industry and Software Patents
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Presentation
Dr. Mikko Mustonen - University of Helsinki - Open Source and Economics
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Presentation
Victor Vazquez López, Senior Legal Counsellor, WIPO - Current Issues in the Protection of Software - WIPO Initiatives I
14:00 Policy panel
Nokia Microsoft Mikko Välimäki, Helsinki University of Technology / Hanken Georg Grave, Chairman, Free Software Foundation Europoe
16:00 Closing of The Workshop