International Copyright Law and Policy
Silke von Lewinski
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Silke von Lewinski is head of the department specializing in international and European copyright law at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich. She has acted as a consultant to the European Commission on several occasions, and at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference 1996, where she was a member of the delegation of the European Communities. At the WIPO Diplomatic Conference 2000 on Audiovisual Performances, she was a delegate for Germany. She has been the chief legal expert consulted by the governments of Eastern and Central European and former Soviet countries on their copyright legislation in the framework of the EC's TA programs PHARE and TACIS, and has worked on subsequent EC programs, including Asia. von Lewinski is an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, N.H. and at McGill University, Montreal. She was the first Walter Minton Visiting Scholar at Columbia University School of Law, NY.