Annual Report 1999

CHAPTER 4 - PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN 1999

Gerard Mom
University lecturer with the Intellectual Property, Media and Information Law department.

(with M. Haven and P.J. Keuchenius (ed.)), Contracten en (multi)media, Deventer: Kluwer 1999, 88 p.

Collection of the speeches which were made during the ‘Contracts and (multi)media’ symposium which was organised by Stichting Auteursrechtmanifestaties on 19 November 1998. This collection of speeches discusses, inter alia, the question as to what influence the new technology has in the area of multimedia, such as Internet and CD-ROM, on already existing (standard) contracts and to what extent there is a need to revise or supplement these contracts and the agreements made therein (e.g. on the royalties to be paid to the entitled parties) or indeed to replace them with new contracts.

Publications:

‘Artikel 24 van de Auteurswet 1912’, in: J.J. Brinkhof, F.W. Grosheide and J.H. Spoor (eds.), Intellectuele eigendom, artikelsgewijs commentaar (loose-leaf), The Hague: Elsevier bedrijfsinformatie BV, 6 p.

Commentary – for those people who are professionally involved with intellectual property law – on Article 24 of the Copyright Act, regarding the right of painters to produce the same painting again, even though they have previously transferred the copyright to such painting.

‘Artikel 25a van de Auteurswet 1912’, in: J.J. Brinkhof, F.W. Grosheide and J.H. Spoor (eds.), Intellectuele eigendom, artikelsgewijs commentaar (loose-leaf), The Hague: Elsevier bedrijfsinformatie BV, 6 p.

Commentary – for those people who are professionally involved with intellectual property law – on Article 25a of the Copyright Act, concerning the term ‘surviving dependants’ set out in Paragraph 6 of the Copyright Act (in Articles 19, 20 and 21 of the Copyright Act, which are dedicated to rights relating to representations of personal likenesses): the parents, spouse or registered partner and the children of the deceased whose likeness is represented in some way.

‘Rechtspraak in het kort’, Informatierecht/AMI 1999-2, p. 31; 1999-2, p. 32; 1999-3, pp. 47-48; 1999-3, p. 48; 1999-4, p. 67; 1999-5, pp. 83-84; 1999-7, p. 120; 1999-8, pp. 135-136; 1999-8, p. 136; 1999-10, p. 167.

A permanent article in this scientific journal, in which Dutch (lower court) case law is set out in abbreviated or edited format.

‘Licentie’, in: G.J.H.M. Mom & J.A. Schaap (ed.), Adfo Juridisch - Elektronische Vraagbaak

‘Modellen’, in: G.J.H.M. Mom & J.A. Schaap (ed.), Adfo Juridisch - Elektro­nische Vraagbaak

‘Databankbescherming’, in: G.J.H.M. Mom & J.A. Schaap (ed.), Adfo Juridisch-Elektro­nische Vraagbaak

Non-specialist publications:

Auteursrecht Aspecten. Informatie over auteursrecht, 3rd rev. pr., Amstelveen: Stichting Auteursrechtmanifestaties 1999, 31 p.

Brochure intended for the public at large, providing information on copyright (inter alia by using questions and answers).

Other activities:

‘Copyright’, guest lecture at the Utrecht Academy of Arts, for 2nd year students of ‘Art and Media Management’, Utrecht, 26 May.

Positions:

- member of the board of Stichting Auteursrechtmanifestaties;
- editor, editorial secretary and editor-in-chief of Informatierecht/AMI;
- secretary of Stichting Fonds Victor Hugo;
- editor of Adfo Juridisch - Juridische Aspecten;
- member of the editorial board of Intellectuele eigendom, artikelsgewijs commentaar.