Opening Session

Mihály Ficsor: Opening speech

Dr. Miklós Bendzsel: Opening speech

Geoffrey Yu: Opening speech

Petya Tocharova: Opening speech

Victor Nabhan: Opening speech

Topic 1: Copying and Dissemination Through Digital Networks

Tarja Koskinen-Olsson: Introduction

Eric Baptiste: The creators' viewpoint

Emery Simon: The software industry as a harbinger of evolving distribution models

Maria Martin-Prat: The viewpoint of the phonographic industry

Debate

Topic 2: Private Copying: Existing Legislative Solutions And Proposals for Future Legal Development

Jane Ginsburg: Questionnaire on digital private copying prepared by the Working Group

Jane Ginsburg: Introduction

Hannah Shay: General Report - Part A National provisions relating to private copying

Margo E. Crespin: General report - Part B The definition of private copying

Jane Ginsburg: Remarks between the presentations

Stefan Martin: General Report - Part C Summary of the national reports on the questions concerning the regime of private copying in the analog domain

Antoine Latreille: General Report - Part D Legislative activity concerning private copying

Thomas Dreier: General report - Parts E/F/G implementation of the EU directive. Factual background. existing studies

Debate

Topic 3: Policy Questions Concerningthe Legal Treatment of Copying and Dissemination through Digital Networks

William Cornish: Introduction

Pierre Sirinelli: Reproduction and dissemination through digital networks from the viewpoint of French law

Shira Perlmutter: Availability of works, choice for consumers, confidence in markets

Bernt Hugenholtz: The future of copyright levies in the digital environment

Alain Strowel: C: C & C Copyright: Control and compensation

Takashi B. Yamamoto: How to approach limitations in the digital network environment

Alberto Bercovitz: Political questions relating to the legal treatment of reproduction and dissemination through digital networks

Jon Bing: Policy questions concerning the legal treatment of copying and dissemination through digital networks

Debate

Topic 4: Existing Levy Systems

Claude Brunet: Introduction

Willem Wanrooij: Remuneration systems for private copying in Europe

Gillian Davies: The position of the United Kingdom

Margarida Almeida-Rocha: The situation in Portugal

Robert Hadl: Levies in the United States - myths and reality

Irina V. Savelieva: Private copying under the Russian copyright law

Adolf Dietz: Existing levy systems - Germany

Ramón Casas Vallés: Private copying remuneration in Spain

Gabriel e. Larrea Richerand: Private copying as seen from Mexico

Gun Magnusson: The Swedish levy system

Vincent Salvadé: The rights to remuneration in Switzerland

Debate

Topic 5: Technologically Controlled Dissemination through Digital Networks

Jan Rosén: Introduction

Ted Shapiro: The film industry's viewpoint

Pawel J. Stelmaszczyk: The software industry's viewpoint

Carlo Scollo Lavizzari: The viewpoint of the publishing industry - Current practices and outlook

Hideki Nogata: The viewpoint of authors' societies - The case of mobile phone ringtones in Japan

Debate

Topic 6: Summary of Discussions

Thomas Dreier: Summary

André Lucas: Observations to the summary

Eric Smith: Observations to the summary

Henry Olsson: Observations to the summary

Debate

Topic 7: "The Closest Neighbors": Protection of Performers' Rights after the 1996 and 2000 WIPO Diplomatic Conferences

Questionnaire concerning topic 7

Michel Walter: Introduction

Pál Tomori: Protection, exercise and enforcement of performers' rights after the 1996 and 2000 WIPO Diplomatic Conferences summary and analysis of the answers to the questionnaire

Benoît Machuel: The definition of "phonogram" in the WPPT

Dominick Luquer: The protection of audiovisual performances

Topics 8 and 9: The Protection of Performers' Rights Concerning their Aural Performances

Willem Grosheide: Introduction before Topic 8

Luis Cobos: Budapest Manifesto What do artists want?

Willem Grosheide: Introduction before Topic 9

Fabienne Brison: International protection of performers. taking a look back and another one towards the future

Paloma López Peláez: The implementation of the information society directive in Spain: the Issue of the Right of Making Available. Other topics related to the performers' situation in Spain

Ysolde Gendreau: The protection of neighboring rights of performers in Canada in the light of the 1996 WIPO Treaty

Debate

Topics 10 and 11: The Protection of Performers' Rights Concerning Their Audiovisual Performances

Jean Vincent: Introduction

Monica Randall: Audiovisual performers' hopes and demands before the preparation of a third try after 1996 and 2000

Abelmartín Villarejo: Reflections on the protection of audiovisual performances

Silke von Lewinski: The protection of performers in the audiovisual field in Europe and the United States

Ralph Oman: The protection of actors' rights: The U.S. perspective

Samuel Shu Masuyama: Recent Developments in Japan

Debate

Closing session

Victor Nabhan: Closing speech