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Activiteiten

Each year IViR hosts a number of international symposia, workshops and other meetings for high level discussion on current research projects. Furthermore, IViR staff and personnel meet each other at bi-weekly ’leestafels’ and monthly ’spreektafels’ to which it regularly invites experts from related legal and non-legal fields.

IViR staff also contributes to public consultations concerning future policies relating to the information society, and its researchers are frequently asked as commentators in newspapers and broadcast media.
 


Workshops:
  • Digitisation and Online Exploitation of Broadcasters' Archives
    24 april 2010
    The archives of many television broadcasters now contain materiel which includes more than half a century of contemporary, documentary and entertainment history and are of immense cultural and economic value. Digitisation has created an entirely new technical basis for making these assets available to a wide audience, and there are a whole range of projects aimed at opening up audiovisual archives (including those of broadcasters). However, many projects to open up broadcasters' archives and exploit them online generally run up against serious problems when it comes to clearing the rights for these archived works. These problems arise, firstly, due to a contractual practice that developed in the pre-digital era and to aspects of copyright law that do not really meet the needs of the digital age. Secondly, the very large number of works stored in archives constitutes a challenge that is not easily overcome. The aim of this workshop was to discuss the subject from a number of different perspectives. The contributors to the workshop were accordingly made up of representatives of many different interests: copyright holders and those who look after their interests, television broadcasters, lawyers and copyright experts.
    This workshop resulted in an IRIS Special publication, see here for more information about this publication.
  • Grondrechten in het digitale tijdperk
    15 februari 2010
    Maandag 15 februari 2010, 12.00-17.00 uur heeft in het documentatiecentrum de rondetafelbijeenkomst 'Grondrechten in het digitale tijdperk revisited' plaats. Het is een besloten bijeenkomst met leden van de staatscommissie grondrechten (http://www.staatscommissiegrondwet.nl/) en met name academische deskundigen op het gebied van 'digitale grondrechten'. De staatscommissie is gevraagd te adviseren over herziening van de grondwet. De bijeenkomst moet input leveren voor het (al of niet) aanpassen van de bepalingen over uitingsvrijheid, privacy en het communicatiegeheim.


Conferences:
  • The UN and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical perspectives
    23 april 2010
    Conference organised by the ACIL and the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, UvA, with the collaboration of Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. The Conference is organised with the generous financial support of: the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Department of Constitutional Affairs and Legislation), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW), the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, and the University of Essex.
     
  • Open Content Symposium
    9 januari 2010
    Congres georganiseerd ter ere van honorair hoogleraarschap van professor Lessig.


 

 

Bijgewerkt 03.07.2012