Sunday Surprises

Here are the latest opportunities and events to find out about.

A Kat in the Metaverse

Events

28 February 2023: “Shaking the Good Old IP Kit: The Metaverse”

Fide and TIPSA (Transatlantic Intellectual Property Academy) will present the 25th Global Digital Encounter on 28 February 2023. The topic of this encounter is "Shaking the Good Old IP Kit: The Metaverse”. This encounter will notably aim at answering the following questions: “Are we going to witness the emergence of lex metaversum akin to medieval lex mercatoria? How can copyright and/or civil law doctrine deal with the subject matter? Will our privacy rights be honoured in the Metaverse world? More specifically, how to implement the right to be forgotten on the blockchain where nothing can be actually erased?”. More details and registration link here.

3-7 July 2023 : IViR's Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy

IViR will hold its traditional Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy in Amsterdam from 3 to 7 July 2023. The goal of the course is to provide participants with valuable insights into the most crucial current issues of copyright law, examined from a comparative law perspective and in the light of recent international and regional agreements. More information is available on the IViR website here.

Calls

Call for abstracts: 15th-anniversary conference of the European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network (EIPTN)

The EIPTN will organize its 15th-anniversary conference at the Copenhagen Business School, on 6 and 7 October 2023. The theme of this conference is “Sustainability and Diversity in Intellectual Property Teaching – Academic and pedagogical research as a support to teaching: Sustainability and Diversity in IP at the heart of Academics’ work”. The deadline to send abstracts is 30 May 2023. More details can be found here.

Call for applications: IP Researchers Europe Conference (IPRE) 2023

The IPRE 2023, organised by the School of Law of the University of Geneva (UNIGE), will take place in person in Geneva on Thursday, 29 June 2023, at WIPO and on Friday, 30 June 2023, at WTO. The details of the Call for Applications, Submission Process, and Conference Schedule can be found here. The deadline to submit an application to present at the IPRE 2023 is 20 March 2023.