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The Dudley Knowles Lecture in Political Philosophy

 - The Stevenson Trust for Citizenship - 

Professor David Archard (Queens University Belfast)

‘'Senior Citizens: Rights, Duties and the Old'

• Thursday 1 March at 6 p.m.
• Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre (Corner of Gibson Street and University Avenue) 
• All staff, students, and members of the public are welcome.  No advance booking is necessary.  For further information contact: stevensontrust@glasgow.ac.uk

It is all too easy to think of the old within our society as the beneficiaries of collective care at the inequitable expense of others and at the same time as possessed of civic rights – such as that of voting - that are exercised to the detriment of the interests of those who will outlive them. Yet whilst we do have duties to the old there is reasonable disagreement as to the value of longer lives and the place of old age within these. Such disagreement can only be resolved by political deliberation. The right to vote should not be accorded only on the basis of a principle of affected interests. Moreover, the senior citizen has a particular status, perhaps not one as the repository of accumulated wisdom, but as that of our collective memory.

David Archard is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. He is Honorary Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy and Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. For twelve years he was a Member and latterly the Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority.

Professor Dudley Ross Knowles (1947 – 2014) was a renowned political philosopher who taught at Glasgow University from 1973 to 2011.  He was a staunch supporter of the Stevenson Trust and insisted that the Trust’s commitment to public education must include the contribution of political philosophy to examining issues of contemporary relevance in a manner accessible to all citizens.  In 2015 the Stevenson committee endorsed his view by instigating an annual public lecture on political philosophy in his memory.  

UofG Gaelic Language Day 2018 - March 1

A' brosnachadh cànan agus cultar na Gàidhlig do choimhearsnachd an Oilthighe. Sreath de thachartasan a tha fosgailte do dhuine sam bith. Barrachd fios gu h-ìosal agus fàilte romhaibh uile.

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Celebrating Gaelic language and culture amongst the University community. Our programme of events are open to all. More details here:

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CREATe Spring Public Lecture

The Predictable Decline of Fair Dealing? On Dialogue and Duelling Rights. With Dr Carys Craig, York University, Toronto. Wednesday 21 March 5.30pm - 7pm, Humanities Lecture Theatre.

Fair dealing permits fair uses to be made of copyright protected works without incurring liability for infringement. It has long been a matter of debate whether the defence is properly conceived of as a narrow exception, a limited privilege, or a user’s right . In Canada, which inherited its fair dealing provisions from the United Kingdom, the Supreme Court has defined fair dealing as a “user right” essential to striking copyright’s “balance” between authors and the public interest. It is widely thought that a user rights-based approach to fair dealing—or its US counterpart, fair use—is likely to lead to a greater ambit for the defence, and a more limited scope for copyright owners to preclude publicly beneficial downstream uses of their work. The judicial and statutory evolution of fair dealing in Canada seemed to support this assumption—until recently.

Craig’s presentation will highlight two 2017 cases on fair dealing for education and parody purposes, respectively, which suggest that the recognition of fair dealing as a user right did not produce the paradigm shift that many perceived. Craig has cautioned that the rise of “user rights” may be more rhetorical than real, and may bring more risks to the public interest than we might realize. With a view to these two cases, she will explain why a rights-based balancing approach both permits and legitimizes a restrictive interpretation of fair dealing. She will argue that the fair use doctrine requires, rather than individual duelling rights, a fuller appreciation of the dialogic nature of copyright’s work.

Carys Craig is Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations), and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. She is the Academic Director of the Osgoode Professional Development LLM Program in Intellectual Property Law. Dr. Craig holds a First Class Honours Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Queen’s University in Kingston, and a Doctorate in Law (SJD) from the University of Toronto, where she was a graduate fellow of Ontario’s Centre for Innovation Law and Policy.

Book here (Eventbrite)

 

 

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First published: 26 February 2018