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      PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
      `Rights, Limitations & Exceptions: Striking a Proper Balance'
      
      An International conference to debate rights and exceptions to 
      copyright legislation relating to digital trading
      
      Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      30-31 October 1997
      
      DAY ONE 30 October, 1997 
      · Keynote Speech
      · Working Groups
      
      KEYNOTE SPEECH: Dr Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute for Information 
      Law, University of Amsterdam
      The scene will be set with a keynote presentation by Dr 
      Hugenholtz, which will provide the background to the current 
      situation regarding rights and exceptions in copyright law.
      
      WORKING GROUPS: Delegates will split into working groups for the 
      rest of the day.  All participants will discuss the same issues 
      in 7 groups (maximum 15).   Each group will be led by a Chairman 
      with considerable reputation and expertise in the field.   Dr 
      Thomas Dreier of the Max Planck Institute, Mr Ralph Oman, former 
      Register of Copyrights, US Copyright Office, Mrs Tarja 
      Koskinen-Olsson, General Manager of KOPIOSTO and Mr Jean-Paul 
      Triaille, member of DGXIII's Legal Advisory Board have already 
      agreed to act as Chairmen of the working groups.
      
      DAY TWO 31 October 1997
      · Plenary Session with Reports from the Working Groups · Question 
      & Answer 
      · Response from Panel
      · Final Q & A Session
      
      REPORTS FROM WORKING GROUPS: Conference delegates will reconvene 
      for a plenary session.  Each Working group will report to the 
      conference on the substance of their previous day's discussions.
      
      OPEN FORUM - Q & A SESSION
      
      PANEL RESPONSE:  Representatives from DG XV of the European 
      Commission; WIPO; the US Copyright Office; Central and Eastern 
      Europe will be invited to respond from their perspective.
      
      FINAL OPEN FORUM:  There will be an opportunity for further 
      questions before the close of the conference.
      
      TOPICS FOR THE WORKING GROUPS
      The same range of topics will be looked at by each working group 
      and will cover:
      
      · Scope of rights in copyright
      Transient copying; incidental copying; caching; browsing · 
      Non-commercial uses
      Libraries and archives; education; disability; personal use; 
      private copying
      · Commercial and technical solutions
      Site licences; technical protection systems; rights management 
      information
      · Public Interest
      News; criticism; review; public domain/duration; moral rights; 
      non-voluntary licences
      
      WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE CONFERENCE?
      
      Anyone interested in the balance of rights would benefit from 
      attending this conference, particularly those whose business 
      involves maintaining a role for copyright in the digital 
      information environment - publishers, the record industry, film 
      producers and television companies, broadcasters, hardware and 
      software producers, collecting societies, libraries online 
      service providers etc.
      
      FURTHER DETAILS, including registration forms, will be available 
      shortly via the IMPRIMATUR Web Site and will also be widely 
      circulated by mail and email.   
      The Conference is being jointly organised by IMPRIMATUR* and IFLA 
      (International Federation of Library Associations and 
      Institutions) and the planning of the Agenda has been undertaken 
      by a Steering Committee consisting of representatives from the 
      IPA, FEP and International STM; ACT and EBU; IFPI; EACEM; FIAPF; 
      IFRRO; Telia Infomedia (Telcos);GESAC; ECUP; EWC, Bild Kunst 
      (visual artists) EMF.
      
      * Partners in the IMPRIMATUR consortium are: Authors' Licensing 
      and Collecting Society, Bertelsmann AG, The British Library, 
      Confédération des Sociétés d'Auteurs, Editeurs et Compositeurs, 
      Tagish Ltd., Croft Communication Consultants, DigiCash, EUSIDIC, 
      Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, 
      International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, The 
      Digital Copyright Forum of the USA, Teles AG, Telia Infomedia, 
      University of Florence.  Affiliate partners are: EDItEUR, United 
      States Copyright Office, EBLIDA, International STM, IFRRO, 
      Association of European Performers' Organisations.
      
      Contact information:  
      Janet Hurrell, IMPRIMATUR 
      fax: +44 171 436 5579   email: [log in to unmask]      
      Sarah Keates, IFLA 
      fax: +44 1937 546478   email: [log in to unmask]



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