CREATe Public Lecture Series: Autumn 2023
‘Fifteen Years of Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900): changing world views and what comes next’

Time and date: 5.30pm - 7pm UK time, Monday 16 October 2023.

Location: Hybrid event, held at the Advanced Research Centre, Seminar Space - Level 2, University of Glasgow.

Speakers: Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge) and Martin Kretschmer (CREATe, University of Glasgow), together with a panel of national copyright experts including: Patricia Akester (GPI-IPO), Jose Bellido (University of Kent), Marius Buning (University of Oslo), Elena Cooper (CREATe, University of Glasgow), Victor Drummond (Universidade Gama Filho), Jane Ginsburg (Columbia Law School), Friedeman Kawohl (CREATe Fellow), Magne Klasson (University of Oslo), Joanna Kostylo (Jagiellonian), Frédéric Rideau (Université de Poitiers), Katie Scott (The Courtauld) and Stef van Gompel (Vrije Universiteit).

Please see below the login details for online attendance. If you chose to join in-person, we will see you in the ARC building.

When: Oct 16, 2023 05:30 PM London

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/86216097502?pwd=QXR6V1F5bWtsVGY1YTNlK3RORnpBUT09

Passcode: 504967

Abstract: The open access digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), www.copyrighthistory.org , was launched in 2008, making available original source material about the history of copyright law for five national sections – Great Britain, France, German speaking countries, France and USA - each curated by a specialist national editor. The stated aim of the project was to make available primary source material that (i) opened up alternative interpretations of copyright history, (ii) illustrated the interaction of copyright with commercial and/or aesthetic developments, and (iii) evidenced influences across jurisdictions. Fifteen years later, the digital archive now spans a total of ten jurisdictions – also, the Netherlands, Spain, Jewish sources, Portugal/Brazil and the Vatican - with a further section, Scandinavia, in progress. In this public lecture, the general editors of the archive – Lionel Bently and Martin Kretschmer – will chart the development of the digital archive over the past fifteen years, and look to its future, in conversation with a panel of the archive’s current national editors. 

For more details on the Primary sources on copyright, please visit our website.