Title: "Copyright, the digital environment and the fourth industrial revolution"
Date: Thursday 1 December
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: LC217 (Lecture Centre), Msida Campus
Speaker: Carolina Romero Romero
Carolina Romero Romero, is a lawyer from the Externado University of Colombia and a specialist in Industrial Property, Copyright and New Technologies from the same University. She is also a specialist in International Business Law from the University of the Andes (Colombia) and obtained a Master degree in Intellectual Property from the University of Turin (Italy).
Her professional activity was developed in the public sector, in the area of Intellectual Property and specifically in the field of copyright and related rights, serving as Director General of the National Directorate of Copyright of Colombia (Colombian Copyright Office), and previously as Deputy Technical Director, also exercised jurisdictional functions and was in charge of the functions of the registration office in the same entity.
She was part of the negotiating teams that have represented Colombia in some of the negotiations that have taken place at bilateral and multilateral level, participating as technical support in the discussions on Copyright and Related Rights.
She was a member of the National Council for the Orange Economy (CNEN) and the Intersectoral Commission on Intellectual Property (CIPI), both bodies of the Colombian Government, in which public policies on creative economy and intellectual property issues are articulated respectively.
This event is being organised by the Corporate Research & Knowledge Transfer Office.