National Library Board Copyright Information Seminar cum Tender Briefing

16 Nov 2010 4.00pm to 6.00pm

(Registration Begins at 3:30pm)

Possibility Room, Level 5, The National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street

Making the right investments is crucial for enhancing the market value of businesses and content owners. Also, understanding how to use new and increasingly popular approaches to intellectual property (IP), including Creative Commons licensing, will be essential in enabling new ways of doing business with creative content. Using effectively relevant IP knowledge can strongly enhance your content base and increase future productivity. Investment in developing a good IP portfolio is, therefore, much more than a defensive act against potential competitors. It is a way of increasing your market value and improving future profitability as a content owner.

Join us on the 16th of November as panelists from Creative Commons Singapore and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) share their leading insights on copyright mechanisms and what they mean to content owners.

Programme

1    Introduction

2    Creative Commons Singapore (Giorgos Cheliotis & Lam Chung Nian) - Creative Commons: What it is and How to use it in Singapore

3    Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Jeffrey Wong) - Clearing the Way: Copyright and Licenses

4    Question & Answer segment

5    Tender Briefing & Closing by Government & Business Information Services, National Library Board

Free admission. Light refreshments will be served after the event.

About the Speakers:

Giorgos Cheliotis is Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the National University of Singapore (NUS). During his time at NUS, he has also been a  visiting researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Before joining NUS, Giorgos was a visiting professor at the School of Information Systems of Singapore Management University, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and with a new media startup in Switzerland, and a post-doctoral researcher with IBM Research at the Zurich Research Laboratory, where he also worked as a doctoral student, earning a PhD in Telecommunications and Information Systems from his home institution, the National Technical University of Athens. He is an associate fellow of the Center for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL) at Nanyang Technological University and the public lead of Creative Commons Singapore. Giorgos is also editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and founder of the Free Culture research conference, an annual interdisciplinary event promoting academic dialogue on issues of freedom, sharing and control on the Internet. His work has appeared in several refereed journals, books and international conference proceedings, while he is a frequent speaker on open licensing and new media trends, in public events, on television and in the popular press.

Lam Chung Nian heads the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Practice at WongPartnership LLP. His main areas of practice are intellectual property ("IP"), media, telecommunications and information technology ("IT") law and he handles both contentious and non-contentious matters. He has worked on numerous projects involving the creation, licensing and exploitation of intellectual property, having advised on many projects involving entertainment, film production, book publishing and new media initiatives. Chung Nian also advises government agencies on media issues, licence schemes, content creation agreements and new media research and development projects. He speaks regularly at public talks and lectures on intellectual property law, legal clinics and seminars organised by various government and public sector. He has been appointed to the WIPO Panel of Film and Media Mediators, Arbitrators and Experts, and to the International Bar Association Communications Law Committee as the Regional Representative Asia General. He also contributes to the Computer Law & Security Review, published by Reed Elsevier, and in a pro bono capacity, is legal lead for Creative Commons Singapore.

Jeffrey Wong is Senior Assistant Director at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. He graduated from National University Of Law in 2002 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2003. He was a litigator for two years. In 2006, he joined a management and leadership development multinational company for three years as Regional Coordinator, managing both legal and business matters. He have been working with IPOS since May 2009, as part of the Legal Policy and International Affairs Division. He has been working on copyright policy since he joined IPOS, and have represented IPOS at international meetings on copyright issues.