PROPERTY and COMMONS

The new issues of shared access and innovation

International Seminar - Paris, 25-26 avril 2013, Hôtel Novotel Bercy

This seminar will present for discussion the results of three years of surveys and research carried out within the framework of the PROPICE project (Intellectual Property, Commons and Exclusivity), sponsored by the French National Research Agency. By combining historical and empirical studies in multiple fields (ICT, biotech, pharmaceuticals, cultural goods, etc.) with economic and legal approaches, the research carried out in PROPICE is intended to help portray the promises and difficulties inherent in the construction of commons as alternatives to the implementation of exclusive IPR.

The PROPICE project, under the scientific direction of Benjamin Coriat, is a research programme of the Labex (LABoratory of EXcellence) SITES: Science Innovation et Technique en Société. It brings together three partners:
   • The CEPN: Centre d'Economie de Paris Nord (UMR CNRS 7234) from the University of Paris 13, (Sorbonne Paris Cité); PROPICE team directed by B. Coriat
   • The CRDST: Centre de Recherche sur le Droit des Sciences et des Techniques from the University of Paris 1; PROPICE team directed by C. Noiville
   • The SESSTIM (UMR INSERM/IRD) from the University of Aix-Marseille; PROPICE team directed by F. Orsi
and two associated research centres:
   • The CECOGI: Centre d'Etudes sur la Coopération Juridique Internationale, from the University of Poitiers ; PROPICE team directed by Marie Cornu
   • The IRJS: Institut de Recherche Juridique de la Sorbonne from the University of Paris 1, PROPICE team directed by Judith Rochfeld.

Thursday 25 April 2013

9h-10h45 - Introductory session

9h-9h15 Welcome speeches

9h15-9h30 Benjamin Coriat > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) ~ Scientific Objectives of the Seminar

9h30-10h45 Keynote Speeches :
Charlotte Hess > Syracuse University ~ On intellectual and « new » commons
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Jeanette M. Neeson > Department of History, York University, Toronto ~ Commons' Sense : the Failure and Success of British Commons'
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Silke Helfrich > Commons Strategies Group ~ Commons Rising: A Narrative beyond the Market/State Duopoly

10h45h-11h Break

11h-13H15 - Session 1 : Defining the commons

11h-12H15 • The concept of commons : Ostrom and beyond, chaired by Roland Perez, Université Montpellier
Benjamin Coriat > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) ~ Natural-resource commons and intellectual commons : shared traits and differences
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Olivier Weinstein > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) ~ How are the commons constructed? Questions developed from Ostrom
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Discussant : Agnès Labrousse, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne (CRIISEA)

12h15-13h15 • The key role of property and its attributes, chaired by Florence Bellivier
Fabienne Orsi > IRD, Université Aix-Marseille (SESSTIM, UMR 912) ~ Property as a "bundle of rights": what implications for the commons?
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Judith Rochfeld > Université Paris 1, Institut de Recherche Juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS) ~ Which model(s) for the commons? Between expanding and transcending property
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Discussant : Mikhael Xifaras, Institut d'Étude Politique, Paris.
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14h30-17h45 - Session 2 : Commons and Public Domain

14h30-15h Keynote speaker : Michel Bauwens > The real commons economy: how to make the commons sovereign

15h-16h15 • Public domain and private rights, chaired by Valérie Laure Benabou Université de St-Quentin (DANTE)
Marie Cornu > Université de Poitiers CECOGI, UMR CNRS and Françoise Benhamou > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) ~ The interlacing of public and private in the domain of museums
Nathalie Moureau and Alain Marciano > Université de Montpellier, France, LAMETA ~ Property Rights, Copyrights and Abuse of dominance, the case of Museums and photographer
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Discussant : Dominique Sagot Duvauroux > Université d'Angers

16h15-16h30 Break

16h30-17h45 • Property Rights, Commons and Access, chaired by Geertrui van Ovewalle > Université de Louvain, faculté de droit, Centre sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle
Françoise Bellivier > Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre and Christine Noiville > Université Paris 1, director of CRDST, UMR 8103 CNRS ~ Museum collections, biological collections: from conservation to access?
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Fabienne Orsi > IRD, Université Aix-Marseille (SESSTIM, UMR 912) and Jean Benoit Zimmermann > Université Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) GREQAM / CNRS et EHESS ~ The model of access to antimalarials, between regulation and failure
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Discussant : Bernard Remiche > Université catholique de Louvain and law firm partner

Friday 26 April 2013

9h-12h45 - Session 3 : Commons, Value Creation and Financialization

9h-9h30 Keynote speaker : Eduardo Brondizio > University of Indiana et Institut d'études Avancées Paris ~ The social-cultural context of biodiversity and ecosystems valuation
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9h30-10h45 • The ambivalence of the market for patents, chaired by Christine Noiville
Catherine Carpentier and Luis Miotti > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) ~ Rationales of research valorization in the light of litigation
Yann Dietrich > vice président d'Electronics-IT chez France Brevets ~ France Brevets: a different approach to patents
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Discussant : Fabio Montobbio > University of Turin

10h45-11h Break

11h-12h25 • Biodiversity: between markets and commons, chaired by Pierre Benoit Joly > president of the LABEX SITES (Sciences, Innovation et Techniques en Société)
Hélène Tordjman > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) and Valérie Boisvert > Université de Lausanne, IGD ~ Biodiversity, free-market ideology and green finance
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Sarah Vanuxem > Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (GREDEG - CREDECO) ~ PIPRA: the obstruction of a commons for agricultural technologies
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Discussants : Gilles Allaire > INRA, Toulouse et Delphine Marie-Vivien > Cirad, UMR Innovation, Montpellier/Hanoi

12h25-12h45 Conférence invitée : Séverine Dussolier > Université de Namur ~ Communs et domaine public

14h-17h15 - Session 4 : Commons and Innovation

14h-14h30 Keynote speaker : Paul David > Stanford University and United Nations University MERIT ~ Securing the knowledge foundations of future innovation: the role of the contractually constructed commons in the era of Big Data
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14h30-15h45 • Commons and the digital economy, chaired by François Moreau > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234)
Pierre André Mangolte > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) ~ Free software as a wealth-creating commons
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Philippe Barbet > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) ~ Depletion and marketization of a common resource in the Internet: the case of IP addresses
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Discussant : Valérie Peugeot > Orange Labs and President of VECAM

15h45-16h Break

16h-17h15 • Commons and open innovation, chaired by: Jean-Benoit Zimmerman > Université Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) GREQAM / CNRS and EHESS
Isabelle Liotard > Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEPN (UMR 7234 CNRS ) and Valérie Revest > Université Lyon 2, TRIANGLE ~ Internet and the renewal of innovation prizes
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Anne Branciard > CNRS, Université Aix Marseille, SESSTIM, Marseille ~ DNDi: from open innovation to the impetus of the commons for essential drugs?
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Discussant : Philippe Aigrain > essayst and co-founder of La Quadrature du Net

17h15-18H30 - Round Table :
Governing the commons : chaired by Benjamin Coriat

Invited Panellists :
Charlotte Hess, Mikhael Xifaras, Séverine Dussolier, Geertrui Van Overwalle, Paul David.