Mr. Michael Noah Schlesinger

• Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association grant recipient (June 2000), lecturing at Obirin University and Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan, on copyright and intellectual property law.

Articles, Publications, & Lectures

Articles

• Author, "Through the Lens of TRIPs Enforcement Text and WIPO 'Internet' Treaties: The Possible Shift to a Creative Economy in Southeast Asia," in Christoph Antons, Ed., The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Comparative Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region, Kluwer Law Books, 2010 (publication forthcoming).

• Author, "Legal Issues in Peer-To-Peer Filesharing, Focusing on the Making Available Right, in Alain Strowel, ed., Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Secondary Liability in Copyright Law," Edward Elgar Books, 2009.

• Author, "The Right of Making Available and its Implementation in National Law," Global Copyrights Forum, Korea, Korea Copyright Commission, 2008.

• Author, "Overview of Global Implementation of TPMs: Emerging Global Standards," Fordham University School of Law Fourteenth Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law & Policy, April 2006.

• Author, "WIPO Treaties Implementation Globally: The Key Issues, Fordham Twelfth Annual Conference, International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, April 2004 (with Mihály Ficsor).

• Author, "Exceptions and Limitations on the Prohibition of Circumvention of Access Controls, and on the Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures Protecting Traditional Rights Under Copyright," Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) 2001 Congress, June 2001.

• Author, "Copyright and the Information Revolution in the Arab World," Georgetown Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (2001).

• Author, "Enforcement of the TRIPS Agreement," National Bureau of Asian Research (2000).

• Author, "Crimes of Copyright Infringement Explained: the Prospect for Strong Judicial Enforcement Against Copyright Infringement, in Intellectual Property Law in China," Kluwer Law Books, 1999.

• Author, "Enforcement of Copyright in the People's Republic of China in the Post-Deng Era," Japan Information Access Project, 1997.

• Author, "Intellectual Property Law in China," Parts 1 and 2, East Asian Executive Reports, 1997.

• Author, "A Sleeping Giant Awakens: the Development of Intellectual Property Law in China," Journal of Chinese Law, Spring 1995.

Lectures

• Speaker, "The Right of Making Available and its Implementation in National Law," Global Copyright Forum, Seoul, Korea, April 2008.

• Presenter, "The Making Available Right," WIPO Asia - Pacific Regional Seminars on the Issues and Recent Developments of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2007.

• Speaker, "TRIPS enforcement in the US and SE Asia: a comparative performance-based analysis," Workshop on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Awareness Raising in the Asia Pacific Region in Wollongong, Australia, December 2007.

• Speaker, "What is the effect in the U.S. of the 'making available' right? Comparative approaches in Asia, interpreting the making available right, and also the intersection with secondary liability," Fordham International IP Conference, New York, March 2008.

• Keynote Speaker, "Recapturing the Moral Compact of Copyright," Inaugural Asia Pacific Entertainment and Media Summit, Los Angeles, California, November 2006.

• Speaker, "What are Counterfeiting and Piracy and How Do Intellectual Property Rights Holders Fight It?" Workshop on Effective Practices in the Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, U.S. Patent and Trademark and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Los Angeles, California, September 2006 (several panels).

• Presenter, "Copyright in the Digital Age: Comparative Analysis of Challenges, Issues and the WIPO Internet Treaties," Copyright in the Knowledge Economy: Challenges, Emerging Issues And Future Prospects, Commercial Law Development Program, Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, Department of Trade and Industry, Manila, the Philippines, September 2006 (several panels).

• Lecturer, "Copyright, Free Trade Agreements, and Regional Copyright Enforcement," Asia Pacific Legal Institute, Summer Intellectual Property Seminar, July 2006 (also 1999-2005).

• Speaker, "Overview of Global Implementation of TPMs: Emerging Global Standards," Fordham University School of Law Fourteenth Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law & Policy, April 2006 (also April 2004-2005).

• Presenter, "Meeting on Copyright Protection in Vietnam," Science and Technology Committee, Vietnamese National Assembly, Hanoi, Vietnam, September 2005 (co-led meeting).

• United States Rapporteur, Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) 2001 Congress, New York, June 2001.

• Keynote Address, "The Internet And Intellectual Property - Implications For China's Publishers," Beijing Normal University Press China - U.S. Publishing Conference, Beijing, China, May 2001.

• Lecturer, "The Internet And Intellectual Property," East China University School of Law and Politics, Shanghai, China, May 2001, Beijing University Law School, Beijing, China, May 2001

• Lecturer, "The Internet And Intellectual Property," Beijing University Law School, Beijing, China, May 2001.

• Presenter, "Protection of Copyrighted Work on the Internet: The WIPO Copyright Treaties Towards the Regional Development of Intellectual Property in Africa: The TRIPS Agreement and New Issues in the Digital Age,"Commercial Law Development Program and ECOWAS, Abuja, Nigeria, April 2001.

• Speaker, Asia Pacific Legal Institute and National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), "copyright," Taipei, Taiwan and Beijing, China, April 2000.

• Presenter, "Intellectual Property: Legal and Other Aspects," organized by the Legal Workshops & Joint Seminars Sub-Committee of the governments of Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Jerusalem and Ramallah, West Bank, February 2000.

• Presenter and Organizer, "The Enforcement of Copyright and Related Rights under the TRIPS Agreement," World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) National Seminar on Copyright and Related Rights, Beirut, Lebanon, September 1999.

• Presenter and Organizer, "The Ways and Means of Identifying Pirated or Counterfeited Goods" and "Effective Enforcement Actions: Running a Secure and Effective Raid and Preparing the Case for the Prosecutor," WIPO National Workshop on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, Beirut, Lebanon, September 1999.

• Presenter, "The new WIPO Treaties and the TRIPS Agreement, with particular attention to enforcement of rights," World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Regional Symposium for African Countries on the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), Windhoek, Namibia, March 1999.

• Presenter, "Enforcement of Copyright and Related Rights Under the TRIPS Agreement" and "Legal Aspects of Electronic Commerce; Implications on Copyright and Related Rights," World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Afro-Arab Symposium on Copyright and Related Rights, Tunis, Tunisia, November 1998.

• Lecturer, Diploma Program in Advanced Studies in Intellectual Property, WIPO and the Gulf Institute for International Law (GIIL), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 1998.