Programme
14/03/16
“CONTENT CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET”
Monday, 14 March 2016
13.30 – 14.00
Registration and Coffee
14.00 – 16.00
Opening session
Chair: Andrea Renda, CEPS, Chair of the Scientific Committee of EuroCPR
14.00 – 14.10
Welcome
14:10 – 15:00
Keynote Speakers:
· Bruno Soria, NERA “A new regulatory framework for the digital ecosystem”
· Alexandre de Streel, University of Namur, “Towards a robust regulatory framework for the 21st century information society”
15.00 – 16.00
Industry dialogue:
Augusto Preta (ITMedia Consulting), Grégoire Polad (Association of Commercial Television in Europe), Tobias McKenney (Google)
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 – 18.30
Session 1:
Perspectives on the distribution infrastructure: deployment and regulation
Chair: Lorenzo
Pupillo, Telecom Italia
· Felice Simonelli and Giuseppe Mazziotti, “Another breach in the wall: copyright territoriality in Europe and its progressive erosion on the grounds of competition law” Discussant: Alexandre de Streel, University of Namur
· Jean Paul Simon and Pierre Jean Benghozi, ”Out of the blue: the rise of CDN networks” Discussant: Adam Watson-Brown, European Commission
· Stefan Herwig and Lukas Schneider, “Are we harmonizing failing markets?” Discussant: Bruno Soria, NERA
19.30 – 22.00
Conference dinner at Restaurant De Ultieme Hallucinatie
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
09.00 – 09.30
Registration and Coffee
09.30 – 11.00
Session 2: Users and uses: an active role in making and breaking media policy
Chair: Patrice Chazerand, Director Public Affairs, Digital Europe
· Fabrice Le Guel, Grazia Cecere and Nessrine Omrani, “Who reads privacy policies?: Consequences for privacy regulation” Discussant: Cory Robinson, Linköping University
· Jean Paul Simon, “User generated content: Users, community of users and forms: towards new sources of co-innovation” Discussant: David Sweeney, Sweeney Consulting
· Judith Möller, Damian Trilling, Natali Helberger and Claes de Vreese, “The shrinking core? Exploring the differences between traditional and personalised news” Discussant: Colin Blackman, CEPS
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee
11.30 – 13.00
Session 3: Media & markets: new dynamics and changing technology (I)
Chair: Aviva Silver
· Volker Rieck, “Unregulated content distribution on the Internet: the underestimated role of data centres and registrars” Discussant: Marie Sellier, Vivendi
· Luis Aguiar and Joel Waldfogel, “Digitisation, the European Digital Single Market, and their Effects on Film consumers” Discussant: Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam
· Tim Raats, Ilse Schooneknaep and Caroline Pauwels, “How 21st century-proof is national film distribution support?: Analysis of 20 years of national distribution enhancing mechanisms for film circulation in the EU” Discussant: Annick Schramme, Antwerp Management School
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Session 4: Getting media regulation right
Chair: Colin Blackman, CEPS
· Nico van Eijk and Wolfgang Schulz, “Towards a new approach for the regulation of audiovisual media” Discussant: Goradan Grahovac, Independant consultant
· Katharine Sarikakis, Olga Kolokytha and Krisztina Rozgonyi, “The case of ‘content-exception’ as a policy compromise between public needs and private interests” Discussant: Kristina Irion, University of Amsterdam
· Kristina Irion and Natali Helberger, “Privacy, data protection and personalization with smart TV and in the online media sector” Discussant: Cory Robinson, Linköping University
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30
Session 5: Media & markets: new dynamics and changing technology (II)
Chair: Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Université Paris Descartes
· Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius and Joost Poort, “Legal and economic effects of online personalized pricing” Bertin Martens, IPTS
· Georgios Alaveras, Estrella Gomez and Bertin Martens, “Cross-border circulation of films in the EU Digital Single Market” Discussant: André Lange-Medart
17.30 – 17.45
Concluding remarks: Colin Blackman, CEPS
17.45 – 19.00
Closing reception
Important Dates
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September 2015 |
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31 October 2015 |
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30 November 2015 |
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15 February 2016 |
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14-15 March 2016 |