Presentation: Birgit Kolkmann (Deutschlandradio)
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8:30 am | Admission and accreditation |
9:30 am | Welcome address: Prof. Jeanine Meerapfel, |
President of the Academy of Arts | |
Introduction: | |
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pfennig, | |
Initiative Urheberrecht spokesperson | |
Greeting: Iris Berben, Actress, | |
President of the German Film Academy | |
10:15 am | Keynote: Günther Oettinger, |
European Commissioner for the | |
Digital Economy and Society | |
10:45 am | Coffee break |
11:15 am | Presentation: Prof. Dr. Matthias Leistner |
LL.M. (Cambridge), "The need for reform in | |
substantive copyright law" | |
11:45 am | Statement: Matthias Hornschuh, |
Composer, Publicist | |
11:55 am | Audience discussion |
with | |
Prof. Dr. Matthias Leistner, LL.M. (Cambridge), | |
Universität Bonn | |
Matthias Hornschuh, Composer, Publicist | |
Moderation: | |
Prof. Dr. iur. Eva Inés Obergfell, HU Berlin | |
12:15 pm | Keynote: Heiko Maas, |
Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection | |
1:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00 pm | Greeting: Prof. Dr. h.c. Bernd Neumann, |
former Minister of State, President of FFA | |
2:05 pm | Panel session on pending legislative proposals |
and subsequent audience discussion | |
Leonhard Dobusch, Junior professor, | |
Freie Universität Berlin | |
Prof. Dr. Enjott Schneider, Composer, | |
GEMA-Chairman of the supervisory board | |
Dr. Susanne Schüssler, | |
Verlag Klaus Wagenbach | |
Adj. Prof. Dr. Silke von Lewinski, MPI | |
3:00 pm | Presentation: Prof. Dr. Karl Riesenhuber, "The |
growing importance of centralized protection | |
of rights and the role of collecting societies" | |
3:30 pm | Statement: Peter Weber, ZDF Legal Adviser |
3:40 pm | Audience discussion |
with | |
Prof. Dr. Karl Riesenhuber, | |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum | |
Peter Weber, ZDF Legal Adviser | |
4:00 pm | Coffee break |
4:30 pm | Panel session on pending legislative proposals |
and subsequent audience discussion | |
Christian Flisek, MdB | |
Ansgar Heveling, MdB | |
Prof. Dr. Alexander Peukert, | |
Goethe-Universität | |
Dr. Robert Staats, | |
Executive Board Member VG WORT | |
5:50 pm | Closing remarks: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker, |
Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht | |
Board Member | |
6:00 pm | End |
6:30 pm | Reception in Club Room of the |
Academy of Arts | |
Greeting: State Secretary Björn Böhning | |
(Head of Senate Chancellery Berlin) | |
Only for conference attendees or | |
upon invitation! |
Subject to change.
9:00 am | Admission |
9:30 am | Welcome address |
9:40 am | Presentations on topic: "Creativity |
at the start of the cultural value chain" | |
Prof. Dr. Fred Breinersdorfer (Berlin), | |
Screenwriter, Producer, Lawyer | |
Richard Malka (Paris), Comic author, Lawyer | |
followed by discussion | |
11:00 am | Keynote: Prof. Monika Grütters, MdB, |
Minister of State for Culture and Media | |
11:30 am | Statement from the cultural industries: |
Prof. Dieter Gorny, | |
President of the Federal Music Industry | |
Association and Creative Officer at the | |
Federal Ministry of Economics | |
11:45 pm | Presentation: Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, |
"The responsibility and liability of | |
intermediaries" | |
12:15 pm | Statement: Renate Künast, MdB, |
Chairman of the Committee for Justice and | |
Consumer Protection, Chairman of the | |
Parliamentary Group Alliance 90/The Greens | |
12:30 pm | Audience discussion |
With continued participation of among others | |
Prof. Klaus Staeck, Grafic designer, Lawyer | |
1:15 pm | Lunch |
2:00 pm | Report by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pfennig about |
the keynote by Günther Oettinger, European | |
Commissioner for the Digital Economy and | |
Society, presented on December 1 | |
2:10 pm | Statement: Joan Smith, |
Author and Journalist (London) | |
2:20 pm | Presentation: Jean-Philippe Mochon, |
Ministry of Culture and Communication, | |
Paris, "European harmonization policy | |
from the perspective of France" | |
2:45 pm | Presentation: Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Paulus, |
Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court | |
of Germany, | |
"The European need for integration | |
and national regulatory competence" | |
3:15 pm | Coffee break |
3:45 pm | Panel session and subsequent discussion |
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Köster, MdEP | |
in conversation with | |
Nina George, Author and activist for | |
authors' rights | |
Dr. Tilo Gerlach, Manager GVL | |
John Groves, Composer, Music producer | |
Jean-Philippe Mochon, Ministry of Culture | |
and Communication, Paris | |
4:50 pm | Closing remarks: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pfennig, |
Initiative Urheberrecht spokesperson | |
5:00 pm | End |
English-German interpretation will be provided.