Speakers Using Fairly

Lucky Belder is Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Media Law and Art Law at the University of Maastricht. She has studied History of Art and Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam, and worked as a curator at museums and galleries for contemporary art. She has also been advisor to the Dutch UNESCO Committee on the special projects ‘Cultural Diversity’ and ‘Internet, Human Rights and Culture’. Representative publications include: ‘Cultural Heritage in International Law’, chapter 1 in Belder, Lucky and Schneider, Hildegard eds., Art Law, Cases and Materials, University of Maastricht Publishers, 2005.

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science and Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Uppsala University. Her most recent book is No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2004). The same Press will publish her new book on the public domain and the commons, preliminarily entitled It’s a Jungle Out There: Thickets and Clearings on the Intellectual Commons, in 2008.

Fiona Macmillan is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, London. She is admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.  Immediately prior to her appointment in the School of Law at Birkbeck, Fiona Macmillan was Associate Professor of Law and Copyright Director of the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Institute at Murdoch University in Western Australia. She is the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Network to Consider New Directions in Copyright Law, and the Editor of the New Directions in Copyright Law series edited by Edward Elgar.

Kembrew McLeod is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa. He is the author of two books on intellectual property and culture, Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership & Intellectual Property (Lang, 2001) and Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (Doubleday/Random House, 2005). In 2006 Kembrew McLeod received the Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award by the Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the American Library Association.

Jan von Bonsdorff is Professor of Art History at the Department of Art History, Uppsala University. Dr. phil. in Art history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel in 1990, Senior Lecturer in Art history at the University of Tromsø, Norway in 1993, and Acting Professor at the same university in 1998. Visiting scholar and Professor at Uppsala University 1997, University of Turku 1998, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich 1999-2000, and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2002. Among other matters, von Bonsdorff has written on social structures of specialized artisanship as a presupposition for creativity and the dissemination of luxury commodities and church art in the Baltic sea area in the Middle Ages.