Since 2016, the ECS has been holding an open conference on the day before its annual meeting.
The ninth annual ECS conference took place at the CREATe Centre at the University of Glasgow on 16 May 2025. The topic of the conference was “Beyond private law? The regulatory aims of copyright law“. 2025 ECS Program.
The eighth annual ECS conference was held at the Westend Campus of Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, on Friday, 24 May 2024. The topic was “The Conflict and Trust in the European Copyright System”. 2024 ECS Program.
The seventh annual ECS conference took place in Leuven on Friday 26 May 2023. The topic was “The Interface Between Copyright and Data Regulation”. 2023 ECS Program.
The sixth annual ECS conference took place in Nottingham on Friday 27 May 2022 with Lord Justice Arnold as keynote speaker. The topic was “The Constitutional Turn in Copyright Law – From human rights, to competition aspects and fairness concerns”. 2022 ECS program.
The ECS held its fifth conference online, on 21 May 2021, under the theme “Copyright Challenges During the Pandemic (and Beyond)”. 2021_ECS_program.
The ECS held its fourth conference on May 24th at the University of Oslo, under the theme “A Copyright for Authors and Performers,” to engage in a debate as to how creators and performing artists’ interests can be safeguarded in the current technological and economic environment. 2019_ECS_program
The ECS held its third conference in Brussels, on May 25th under the title “EU Copyright: Quo vadis?” The session examined several issues included in the current EU copyright package as well as the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence. 2018_ECS_program
The ECS second conference was held on Friday 11 May 2017, at SciencesPo, in Paris. under the title “Building a EU unitary copyright.” The topic of the one day event is how, and how far, to move EU copyright law from a series of directives towards a unitary EU title. 2017_ECS_program
The first ECS conference was held in Barcelona on Friday May 20, 2016: Copyright Law for the EU – An open debate with the European Copyright Society. Hosted by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (and supported by Obra Social ‘La Caixa’ many of the members of the ECS discussed previously published ECS positions and new responses to ongoing consultations. 2016_ECS_program
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