Innovation Law and Theory Workshop
Professor Yoav Mazeh
Ono Academic College, Israel
Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Fixation in Copyright:
Should Works of Copyright be Fixed in Tangible Form?
Date: Thursday November 15, 2007
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Place: Seminar Room FA3, Falconer Hall, 84 Queen’s Park
In order for a work to be protected by copyright it must be fixed in a tangible form. The fixation requirement is quite odd in that it requires a physical embodiment, of a work which is in its essence intellectual, that is, intangible. Yet fixation requirements are made in Canada, the UK, the US and in Israel (among other places), even though the requirements differ in each of these jurisdictions. The question which needs to be addressed is whether the fixation requirement is actually justified. In his paper, Professor Yoav Mazeh will examine the justifications for the fixation requirement. The paper will demonstrate that the current form of the fixation requirement does not achieve its goals, and that in order to achieve these goals fundamental changes need to be made to the current form of the requirement for fixation.
Professor Yoav Mazeh teaches Intellectual Property and Family Law at the Ono Academic College, Israel, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. Yoav qualified as a lawyer at the Israeli Bar in 2000, having completed his articles with the Israeli Commissioner of Patents, Designs and Trademarks. He went on to study at Oxford University, as a Fellow of the WIPO World Wide Academy, and obtained his M.St and D.Phil, both focusing on copyright law. He has published in Canada, England and Israel, and has submitted reports to the UK and Israeli governments.
Please RSVP to centre.ilp@utoronto.ca or 416-978-3724
A light lunch will be provided.
Sponsored by the Microsoft Law and Information Society Project