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Activities
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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.
Below you find an overview of past and
upcoming activities of the Institute.
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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.
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HERA
30 October 2010
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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.
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Bijgewerkt
19.01.2011
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