Final Programme - International Bar Association

Section and Committee information
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Intellectual Property,
Communications and
Technology Section 41–43
Council Liaison Officers
Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados,
Madrid, Spain; IBA Treasurer; LPD Secretary-Treasurer
Peter Bartlett Minter Ellison, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
With nearly 1,700 members, the Intellectual Property,
Communications and Technology Section is one of the largest
sections in the Legal Practice Division.
Art, Cultural Institutions
and Heritage Law 42
Chair
Massimo Sterpi Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associati, Rome, Italy
The committee is concerned with all aspects of law as it relates to art,
artists and cultural heritage in the broadest context. This extends from
archaeology and the protection of ancient monuments to national
heritage and public and private collections to the art trade and
contemporary art. ‘Art law‘ is an interdisciplinary field involving tax
(individual estates and charities), commercial transactions, intellectual
property in all aspects and private and public international law.
Communications Law 42
Co-Chairs
Fabrizio Cugia di Sant’Orsola Cugia Cuomo & Associati, Rome, Italy
Christopher Watson CMS Cameron McKenna, London, England
The Communications Law Committee is a leading global forum
for legal practitioners with specialist expertise or interest in the
communications sector. The committee offers members access to
a worldwide network of leading practitioners, in-house counsel
and regulators active in telecommunications and media markets.
The scope of the committee’s work covers network, service and
content-related developments across all delivery platforms. This
provides members with access to practical global perspectives on the
array of technological, commercial and policy issues that confront
communications lawyers, their companies and clients.
Intellectual Property
and Entertainment Law 42
Co-Chairs
William Bunker Knobbe Martens Olsen & Bear, Irvine, California, USA
Matthias Nordmann SKW Schwartz Rechtsanwälte, Munich, Germany
This committee focuses on intellectual property and entertainment
law. The term ‘intellectual property’, as it is commonly referred to
today, includes a diverse range of areas of law. The main areas are
patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets and unfair competition.
Allied to these are a number of related areas including data
protection, database protection, privacy, design rights and domain
names. In the entertainment law area, the key focus is on the
creation, provision and delivery of content in relation to print, films,
broadcasts, cable programmes, musical works and sound recordings.
There is also involvement with media law including defamation and
privacy and authors’ rights in a more general sense.
Media Law 42
Chair
David Schulz Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, New York, USA
The committee is dedicated to gathering and disseminating
knowledge in all areas of law related to the media industry. This
encompasses both content and communication issues.
Space Law 43
Chair
Rachel A Yates Holland & Hart, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA
The committee provides a forum for lawyers to address the increasing
number of practical legal issues arising in commercial and regulatory
activities in this specialised area of domestic and international law.
Technology Law 43
Co-Chairs
Erik Valgaeren Stibbe, Brussels, Belgium
Bart van Reeken De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
The Technology Law Committee brings together lawyers practising
aspects of the law particularly relevant to modern technologies.
They have in common that they deal with developing bodies of law
coming to grips with the new questions posed by new technologies.
The mandate of this committee is broad and includes virtually any
kind of technology.
International Sales,
Franchising and Product
Law Section 43–44
Council Liaison Officer
Lynda J Zadra-Symes Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, Irvine,
California, USA
The International Sales, Franchising and Product Law Section has over
1,200 members from around the world.
International Franchising 43–44
Chair
John R F Baer Greensfelder Hemker & Gale, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The International Franchising Committee focuses on the law and
business of international franchising. Committee interests include
competition law principles, cross-border sales and licensing issues,
the business forms employed and trademark and intellectual property
protections required to assure franchising success.
International Sales 44
Co-Chairs
Amir Singh Pasrich ILA Pasrich & Company, New Delhi, India
Steven M Richman Duane Morris, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA
The International Sales Committee examines legal issues fundamental
to the growth and development of international commerce, including
international sales contracts, agency and distribution, cross-border
acquisitions, warranties and financing of international sales.
Product Law and Advertising 44
Chair
Juan Pablo M Cardinal Richards Cardinal Tutzer Zabala & Zaefferer,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The committee covers a broad range of topics and problems, which are
of increasing importance to the international lawyer in both national
and transnational work in the field of product law and advertising.