ASEAN-USPTO Workshop on Digital Copyright and Copyright Collective Management, Organized by the ASEAN Secretariat and the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Bangkok, 16-19 July 2007

Monday, 16 July 2007

I. Session 1:  Welcome and Opening Remarks
 
Haji Shuib B. Md. Yusop, Chairman, ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation; and Director General, Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia 
  
Jennifer Ness, IPR Regional Attaché, U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, U.S.Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand 
  

II. Session 2: The International Framework for Copyright Protection post-TRIPs:  The WIPO Copyright Treaty and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
   
Presenter: Richard Owens, Director, Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
   

III. Session 3: Opportunities and Challenges:  The Impact of Digital Technology on Copyright

Presenter: Professor Rohazar Wati Zuallcobley, Deputy Director General, Industrial Property, Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia
 

IV. Session 4:  Prohibitions on Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures and Alteration of Rights Management Information

Presenter: Michael Schlesinger, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, International Intellectual Property Alliance, Washington D.C.
  

V. Session 5:   Content on the Internet:  the Right of Making Available and Other Rights Implicated by the Internet

Presenter: Ann Chaitovitz, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia ( Doc | Pdf )

 

VI. Session 6: Content on the Internet:  Practical Demonstrations, Including the Use of Technological Protection Measures and Rights Management Information

Presenters: 

  1. Patricia L. Judd, Executive Director, International Copyright Enforcement and Trade Policy, Association of American Publishers, Inc., Washington D.C.
  2. Gadi Oron, Legal Advisor, Global Legal Policy Department, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, London, United Kingdom
  3. Teerin Charoenpot, Intellectual Property Specialist, U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, U.S.Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand 
      

 

Tuesday,  17 July 2007
    

VII. Session 7: Copyright Law Provisions in the Digital World (Temporary Copies, Exceptions and Limitations)

Presenter: Marla Poor, Policy Planning Advisor, Office of Policy and International Affairs, United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.


VIII. Session 8:  ASEAN Approaches to the WIPO Treaties

Presenters: 

  1. Adi Supanto, Head of Copyright Division, Directorate of Copyright, Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Indonesia

  2. Nazura Abdul Manap, Senior Lecturer, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
          

IX. Session 9:   How Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Programs Work
 
Presenter: Tarun Sawney, Director of Anti-Piracy, Asia-Pacific Region, Business Software Alliance, Singapore 

 

X. Session 10: Internet Service Provider Liability
   
Presenter: Jennifer Ness, IPR Regional Attaché, U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand    

XI. Session 11: Notice and Take-down Systems 
  
Presenters: 

  2. Marla Poor, Policy Planning Advisor, Office of Policy and International Affairs, United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., U.S.
  4. Piset Chiyasak, Managing Director, Phonorights (Thailand) Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand


Moderator:  Jennifer Ness, IPR Regional Attaché, U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand 


Wednesday, 18 July 2007

 

XIII. Session 13:  Digital Copyright Law in Practice:  Case Studies
 
Presenter: Michael C. Ellis, Senior Vice President and Regional Director, Asia Pacific Region, Motion Picture Association-International, Singapore

 

XIV. Session 14: Collective Management Overview

Presenter: Ann Chaitovitz, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
   

XV. Session 15: International Aspects of Collective Management

Presenter: Scot Morris, Director, International Relations, Australasian Performing Right Association/Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society, New South Wales, Australia
  

XVI. Session 16:  Collective Management in ASEAN Countries:  Issues and Difficulties
 
Moderator:  Jennifer Ness, IPR Regional Attaché, U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand  
 
Presenters: 

  1. Adi Supanto, Head of Copyright Division, Directorate of Copyright, Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Indonesia
  2. Nheune Sisavad, Director General, Department of Intellectual Property, Standardization and Metrology, Science Technology and Environment Agency, Vientiane, Lao PDR
  3. Siti Salwa Hj Ghazali, Copyright Officer, Malaysia Intellectual Property Corporation, Putrajaya, Malaysia


XVII. Session 17: Collectives for Print Media

Presenter: Caroline Morgan, Chair, Asia Pacific Committee, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations; General Manager, Copyright Services, Copyright Agency Limited, Australia
     

Thursday, 19 July 2007

 

XVIII. Session 18: An ASEAN example of a Collective for Print Media

Presenter: Paul Wee, General Manager, Copyright Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore Ltd., Singapore


XIX. Session 19: Collectives for Music Authors and Composers

Presenter: Ang Kwee Tiang, Regional Director and Regional Counsel for Asia-Pacific International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, Singapore

 

XX. Session 20: An ASEAN Example of a Collective for Music Authors and Composers

Presenters: 

  2. Chan Miew Lan, General Manager, Music Authors' Copyright Protection Berhad., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


XXI. Session 21:  Collectives for Producers and Performers
   
Presenters: 

  1. Ong Peng Chu, Asia Coordinator, Societies’ Council for the Collective Management of Performers’ Rights; General Manager, Performers and Artistes Rights Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  2. Gadi Oron, Legal Advisor, Global Legal Policy Department, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, London, United Kingdom

 

XXII. Session 22:   An ASEAN example of Collectives for Producers and Performers
 
Presenter: Ong Peng Chu, Asia Coordinator, Societies’ Council for the Collective Management of Performers’ Rights; General Manager, Performers and Artistes Rights Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 

XXIII. Session 23:  The Way Forward

Moderator:  Ann Chaitovitz, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.

Presenters: 

  1. Scot Morris, Director, International Relations, Australasian Performing Right Association/Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society, New South Wales, Australia
  2. Caroline Morgan, General Manager, Copyright Services, Copyright Agency Limited, Australia
  3. Ong Peng Chu, Asia Coordinator, Societies’ Council for the Collective Management of Performers’ Rights; General Manager, Performers and Artistes Rights Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  4. Chan Miew Lan, General Manager, Music Authors' Copyright Protection Berhad., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  5. Debra Ann P. Gaite, General Manager, The Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Inc., Manila, Philippines
  6. Paul Wee, General Manager, Copyright Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore Ltd., Singapore

 

XXIV. Session 24:  Program Wrap-up:  Closing Remarks and Comment Forms