Emilie Bouchet – Le Mappian – France

Emilie Bouchet-Le Mappian promoted in 2009, in Nantes (France), on the subject: Intellectual property and the concept of property in English, German and French law. Her Ph.D. deals with the question whether intellectual property was shaped as a true property right in history and in present law.

She already addressed professionals on the issues of digitization and copyright laws. The last occurrences were, beside the TransISTor sessions of 2008, the playing of video clips aimed at teachers about the use of new technologies in schools and universities. At the University of Nantes, she teaches several fields of law (introduction, torts, goods…) at the licence and master levels.

Abstracts

Legal issues I: Copyright and audiovisual works

• Copyright laws vary in Europe, but works circulate throughout the Union without caring for this diversity. Which general orientations, ensuing from a common European culture and from the European community laws, can bridge the national juridical gaps? Is copyright a hindrance to the preservation and the diffusion of works, especially audiovisual?

Legal issues II: Trademarks, designs, patents rights and audiovisual works

• Not only copyright, but also trademark, design and patent rights can be of interest for audiovisual professionals, in their action of storing and restoring, preservation, collection and diffusion of audiovisual works. What rights do they hold and what rights do they have to respect?