9:00 – 9:30
Opening
Hannes Siegrist (Leipzig)
Augusta Dimou (Leipzig)
Cindy Daase (Leipzig)

9:30 – 11:00
Institutionalization of Intellectual Property Rights and Professionalization - Chair: Augusta Dimou (Leipzig)

Juliane Scholz (Leipzig): Screenwriters and Copyright in East-Central Europe (1910-1970): The Struggle for Appreciation of Intellectual Property Rights in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia

Karin Rolle (Leipzig): Intellectual Property in Central Europe. The Making of Law and Case Studies from the Interwar and the Socialist Period in Czechoslovakia

Katarzyna Gracz (Florence): Explaining the Divergence between the Social and Legal Norms with Regards to the Access to Knowledge and Culture or why did the Anti-ACTA Movement start in Poland

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00
Expansion of Intellectual Property Law, its Limits and Ambiguities - Chair: Louis Pahlow (Frankfurt/M.)

Debora Halbert (Honolulu): Samizdat, Copyright and the State: Copyright as Censorship and the Differences between East and West

Lida Barner (London/Washington D.C.): Intellectual Plunder? IP Rights of Jews under the Nazi Regime

Stina Teilmann-Lock (Kolding): Legal Designs: On the Use of Designers as Court-Appointed Experts in Danish Copyright Infringement Cases

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00
The Transfer of Intellectual Property Rights – A History of Adaption? - Chair: Peter Tschmuck (Vienna)

Friedemann Kawohl (Bournemouth): Conflicts between Nineteenth-Century Prussian Copyright Concepts and East Central European Legal Cultures

Giuliano D’Amico (Volda): Henrik Ibsen and Copyright

18:00
Public Evening Lecture
Adolf Dietz (Munich): The Influence of EU Copyright Harmonization Directives on the Building of Post-Socialist Copyright Law in Central and Eastern Europe
Venue: Centre for Area Studies (CAS)

Saturday, 3 November 2012

10:00 – 11:30
Tansformation of Intellectual Property Law since 1989 - Chair: Cindy Daase (Leipzig)

Mišo Dokmanović (Skopje): New Concept in Old Context: The Transformation of the Intellectual Property Legal Framework in Macedonia after the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

Tamar Taliashvili (Tbilisi): Reinventing the Intellectual Property Concept in the Post-Soviet Society – The Georgian Experience

Tina de Vries (Munich): The Development of Copyright- Law in Poland from the Interwar Period until Today, Exemplified through Cases decided by Polish Courts

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30
Globalization and Internationalization of Intellectual Property Law - Chair: Isabella Löhr (Heidelberg)

Christophe Germann (Geneva): Cultural Diversity against Piracy: Variable Geometry for Copryright Duration?

Michael Birnhack (Tel Aviv): The Melting Pot of Copyright Law: Urheberrecht in Jerusalem

13:30 – 14:00
Concluding Remarks
Augusta Dimou (Leipzig)
Cindy Daase (Leipzig)