euroCPR invites you to its 26th Conference. This years conference =
focusses on Online Content: Policy and Regulation for a Global Market. =
The conference takes place in Ghent, Belgium. Registration details are =
available at www.eurocpr.org
The 26th EuroCPR conference will start Sunday March 27th at 17.00 with =
the key note session. The first speaker is Richard Collins, Professor of =
Media Studies at the Open University, UK. The second speaker is Simon =
Hampton, Director European Public Policy, Google. =20
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Program
Sunday 27 March 2011
17.00 =96 19.00 Key note session
Chair: Adam Watson-Brown, European Commission
Content online, policy, regulation and the end of
public media?
Richard Collins, Professor of Media Studies,
Open University, UK
Content and the Cloud: implications for policy
Simon Hampton, Google,
Director European Public Policy
19.30 Dinner, Het Pand
Monday 28 March 2011
9.00 =96 10.50
Social networks and legal innovations
Chair: Monica Ari=F1o, Director International, Ofcom
Risk-reducing regulatory strategies for illegal and
harmful content in online social networks
Eva Lievens, K.U. Leuven
Discussant: Anders Henten (CMI, Aalborg University)
Social networks, legal innovations and the =91new=92
music industry
Paschal Preston and Jim Rogers, Dublin City University
Discussant: Jason Rutter, Marie Curie Research Fellow at
K.U. Leuven
11.20 =96 13.00
Safeguarding privacy
Chair: Anastasia Constantelou, University of Aegean
Dataveillance and privacy in social computing:
conceptual exploration and analysis of corporate
profiling techniques
Jo Pierson and Rob Heyman,
Free University Brussels (VUB)
Discussant: Rosa Barcelo, Legal advisor to the European
Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
Privacy by design: alternative for existing practices
in safeguarding privacy
Linda Kool, Marc van Lieshout and Bas van
Schoonhoven, TNO
Discussant: Georges Rossides, European Commission
13.00 =96 14.00 Lunch
14.00 =96 15.40
Online content: trends and policy issues in Asia, USA and
Latin America
Chair: Robin Mansell, London School of Economics
An Asian perspective
Pirongrong Ramasoota, Chulalongkorn University
(Thailand) and CPRSouth
Online vs. Offline. Media in the US
David Waterman, Indiana University (USA) and TPRC
Music and movie downloading in Brazil: the profile
of online pirates
Luis Claudio Kubota, Rodrigo Abdalla Filgueiras de
Sousa, IPEA (Brazil) and Acorn
16.10 =96 17.50
Competitiveness of the EU=92s Media Sector
Chair: Herbert Ungerer, formerly European Commission
How important is the media and content sector in
the European economy?
Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman, Chalmers
Discussant: Matteo Maggiore, BBC
The role of public sector information in the European
market for online content services: a never-ending
story or a new beginning?
Katleen Janssen, K.U. Leuven
Discussant: Jean-Pierre Chamoux,
Universit=E9 Paris Descartes
19:30 Dinner, Restaurant Caf=E9 Theatre
Tuesday 29 March 2011
9.00 =96 10.40
Regulating online content: networks and content
Chair: Eric van Heesvelde, University of Ghent
European regulation of mobile net neutrality
Chris Marsden, University of Essex
Discussant: Eirini Zafeiratou, Vodafone
The digital era: the position and interests of creators
and performers
Ilan van de Akker (SEO), Joost Poort (SEO), Paul Rutten
(University of Leiden) and Jarst Weda (SEO)
Discussant: Giuditta de Prato, JRC-IPTS, Seville
11.20 =96 12.40
Reinventing consumer protection and business models for
online content
Chair: Michael Latzer, University of Zurich
It=92s not about toasters! =96 Making consumer
protection work for the digital content market
Lucie Guibault, Natali Helberger, Marco Loos and
Chantal Mak, Institute for Information Law (IvIR)
Discussant: Kostas Rossoglou, The European Consumers=92
Organisation (BEUC)
Cable wars and business battles in broadcasting
markets: implications for Internet television
Tom Evens (Ghent University) and Karen Donders,
Free University Brussels (VUB)
Discussant: Ross Biggam, Association of Commercial
Television in Europe (ACT)
12.40 =96 13.30 Lunch
13.30 =96 15.00
New EU policies for online content?
Chair: Emilie Normann, Danish Technological Institute (DTI)
Cloud computing in the EU policy sphere
Jasper Sluijs, Wolf Sauter and Pierre Larouche, Tilburg
Law and Economics Center, Tilburg University
Discussant: Verena Weber, OECD
Search engines and dominance in the European
digital economy
Aysem Diker Vanberg, University of Essex
Discussant: Andrea Renda, CEPS and Luiss Guido Carli
University, Rome
15.05 Taxi bus to Brussels Zaventem Airport=