12/04/2013
_ It analysed the risks and opportunities posed by the Internet for Human Rights
_ Zarzalejos has closed the sessions, involving experts in Telecommunications and Law
FAES Foundation and ESADE Law School celebrated from Tuesday, April 2nd to Thursday, 11 April, the 19th edition of the Permanent Human Rights Seminar Antonio Marzal, under the title ‘Internet and Human Rights’. Organized by Ignacio Astarloa, the Constitution and Institutions director of FAES, and Enric R. Bartlett, ESADE Law School’s dean and director of the seminar, this edition’s aim was to analyse the implications of the Internet for Human Rights, regarding its two-fold dimension of risks and opportunities.
Javier Zarzalejos, FAES’ Secretary-General, and Enric R. Bartlett opened the seminar. The sessions hosted, amongst others, Antonio Bengoa, Telefonica’s director of Institutional Relations, José Manuel Maza, judge of the Supreme Court, Eugenio Fontan, dean-president of the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers (Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicaciones), and Rosa Couto, Professor of Intellectual Property Law in Pontificia Comillas University. The sessions took place from 18:00 to 20:30 at the Esade Forum (Edificio I, Av. Pedralbes 60-62, Barcelona).
FOUR SESSIONS
The first of the four sessions of the Seminar was held on Tuesday, April 2nd, after the opening session. Antonio Bengoa, Telefonica’s director of Institutional Relations, and Josep Lluís Micó, director of the journalism degree from the Faculty of Communication at the University Ramon Llull, developped the subject “A technological, economic, social and axiological revolution”.
On Thursday, April 4th, during the second day, José Manuel Maza, judge of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court and Ramón Miralles, Audit and Information Security Coordinator of the Catalan Authority for Data Privacy, addressed the issue of ‘Freedom of speech and privacy and honour rights in the IP protocol. Right to information. Right to be forgotten’.
The program continued on the following week with the celebration of two new sessions. On Monday, April 8th, in the session entitled ‘Is there any choice between the law of the jungle and Big Brother? The Government’s institutionalization on the Internet’, had the participation of Eugenio Fontan, Official College of Telecommunications Engineers’ dean-president, and Paul Mayor, attorney and partner in charge of the Public Law and Regulatory Sectors Department at Allen & Overy.
The last day took place on Thursday 11th with the participation of Rosa Couto, Professor of Intellectual Property Law in Pontificia Comillas University-ICADE, and Raquel Xalabarder, Deputy Director for the Academic and Faculty Organization Vicerectorate of the UOC (Open University of Catalonia), addressed the topic ‘Right of access to culture. Copyright or Right to Copy’.