Michael Palmedo will present his PIJIP Working Paper, A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions, at the upcoming IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference.

Palmedo's working paper describes PIJIP's novel, survey-based dataset that describes changes to 24 countries’ laws on copyright exceptions over time. The data is explored through two indices from subsets of survey questions; one that focus on exceptions related to ICT technologies and another that focuses on educational uses. The indices show that copyright exceptions have grown stronger since 1990, and that wealthier countries tend to have stronger exceptions than poorer ones. Initial empirical tests suggest that exceptions related to ICT technologies are stronger in countries with larger ICT sectors, and exceptions for educational uses are stronger in countries with higher educational attainments.

Palmedo will present during the conference's panel on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations, held on February 10, 2022, at 2:30pm Singapore Time (7:30am Geneva Time). It is open to registered conference attendees; to register, email IPResearchersAsia@gmail.com.

The panel will be chaired by Michele Woods, Director of the Copyright Law Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization. It feaures the following presentations:

• Sonal Singh, National Law University, Odisha 
  Access to Legislative and Judicial Documents: Understanding the Related Copyright Issues

• Saleena Basheer, School of Law, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi   
  Data Mining Exceptions: Fair Use or Fair Dealing

• Dennis Khong, Faculty of Law, Multimedia University
  The Challenges of Implementing Fair Use in Malaysian Copyright Law

• Charu Srivastana, School of Law, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies   
  Limitations on the Copyrights of an Owner/Author of a Cinematograph Film in India, The US, and Germany

• Michael Palmedo, American University Washington College of Law    
  A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions

• Ataul Karim, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center
  Internal Limits of IP: Why Data Sharing for Text and Data Mining should be Legal?

Full the IPIRA Conference runs from February 9-12. It is organized by the IPIRA Network in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the following academic institutions: the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia; Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia; Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University; Texas A&M University School of Law; and the Faculty of Law, University of Geneva.