Consortium of Chinese and European Research Institutions IPRNME
CO-REACH, the network of European institutions for science and technology funding, which support cooperation with China in natural sciences, medicine, technology as well as in the social and human sciences, has decided to promote a consortium of Chinese and European Research Institutions, IPRNME (Intellectual Property Rights in the New Media Environment).
The main objective of the project is to foster the exchange of knowledge about regulatory concepts with regard to copyright and intellectual property for the Information Society and their implementation, as well as jointly work on concepts of regulatory choice to meet new challenges that are brought about through social and technological change in new media environments. For this purpose, joint working papers will be developed and workshops as well as international summer schools for students and doctoral candidates will be executed. Summer schools already took place in Xi'an, Nanjing, and Shanghai in summer 2010. Also students from the Faculty of Law at Hamburg University discussed questions of internet legislature in China.
A workshop hosted by the Institute in Hamburg in May 2010 dealt with law enforcement on the Internet and thereby created synergies with the innovation workshop (project 14). This was followed by workshops in London in December 2010 on questions of provider liability and in Utrecht in April 2011 on the topic of “private copy”. In autumn 2011 a final workshop will take place in Bejing and Hong Kong, which will comparatively consider the project’s result and during which project partners discuss the perspectives of further cooperation.
The partners are the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Strathclyde University, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University, and the Hans Bredow Institute.
For Germany, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) participates in CO-REACH.
Lectures
"The Enquete Commission's Report on Copyright Policy", presentation by S. Heilmann at the final workshop for the Co-Reach project "Intellectual Property Rights in the New Media Environment" at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on 18 October 2011 in Beijing.
“Private International Law (Conflict of Laws) and Copyright Law”, moderation of the discussion by W. Schulz at the workshop “CO-REACH – Intellectual Property Rights in the New” in Utrecht on 28 April 2011.
“Country Report Germany”, presentation of the country report by W. Schulz at the Co-Reach Workshop “Intellectual Property Rights in the New Media Environment” in London on 7 December 2010.
“Liability from a Regulatory Perspective”, lecture by W. Schulz at the “CO-REACH-Workshop on Law Enforcement on the Internet” at the Hans Bredow Institute in Hamburg on 18 May 2010.
"Copyright in a Digital Environment – Governance Perspective", presentation by W. Schulz and S. Heilmann at the Workshop "Intellectual Property Rights in the New Media Environment" at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing on 13 November 2009.
Contact person
Hans-Bredow-Institut
Heimhuder Straße 21
D - 20148 Hamburg
Tel. +49 (0)40 45 02 17 - 0
Fax +49 (0)40 45 02 17 - 77
Co-operation partners
Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Strathclyde University Glasgow, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University