- Start Date - 20/05/2014
- End Date - 20/05/2014
- Start Time - 12.00
- End Time - 13.00
- Location - Albert Lecture Theatre, St. Stephen’s Green
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Dated - 20
Presenter: Dr. Eoin O’Dell, BCL (NUI), BCL(Oxon), PhD (Cantab), FTCD, Barrister-at-Law. Associate Professor of Law, Trinity College | Chair, Copyright Review Group (Ireland)
Convenor: Catherine Bruen, Technology Enhanced Learning Manager, HPEC
This talk will focus on the experience of academics and students with copyright law and practice. It will begin with an overview of the basic principles of copyright, having regard to existing legislation and precedence (copyright past). It will then look at the important issues around copyright in the current Irish academic environment (copyright present). It will conclude with how these issues might change for the better if current reform proposals are implemented (copyright future). This session will be of interest within the context of European Commission’s Research & Innovation Strategy in relation to Intellectual Property (IP) management and H2020 applications.
Dr Eoin O’Dell is an Associate Professor of Law in Trinity College Dublin. He researches and publishes primarily in the fields of freedom of expression, and private and commercial law (including Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), IT and CyberLaw). Called to the Irish Bar in 1983, he holds a masters (LL.M.) and Doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School
He has been President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, a Member of the Council and Executive of the Society of Legal Scholars in the UK and Ireland, and Editor of the Dublin University Law Journal; and he is the Chair of the Fellows of Trinity College Dublin. He was a member of the group which advised the Department of Justice on the Defamation Act, 2009; he was a member of the Advisory Group on a European Civil Code which advised the EU Commission on common principles of European private law; and he is a member of the Statute Law Revision Committee advising the Department of Public Service and Reform on the process of revising the Irish Statute Book.