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On September 14, 2011, a workshop “Intellectual Property in Practice” was held in Warsaw, devoted to intellectual property rights issues. The workshop, organized by Business Media Solutions, grouped representatives of legal and financial departments of various businesses as well as legal counsels. Marcin Mioduszewski and Piotr Suski presented a lecture entitled “Copyright transfer agreements and license agreements in trading copyrights”.

On September 8-11, 2011 the European Culture Congress was held in Wroclaw. It was one of the most important events of the Polish presidency in the European Union. Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz attended the discussion panel called “Wikianarchia”. The topic of this panel was inter alia the resolution of conflict between authors and recipients of culture by way of modifying the copyright law.

Once again On September 8, 2011, a new edition of the workshop “Distribution Agreements” was held in Warsaw. The workshop, organized by Business Media Solutions, grouped representatives of various businesses. Jarosław Sroczyński presented a lecture entitled “Development of Online Distribution: New Opportunities Stemming from the EU Regulation on Vertical Restraints”.

Our lawyer, Mr. Lukasz Wieczorek, won a 2nd prize in competition for the best MA thesis in the field of commercial law, defended in academic year 2009/2010. The nationwide competition is organized annually by the publishing house Wolters Kluwer Polska sp. z o.o. and “Przegląd Prawa Handlowego” legal magazine. Mr. Wieczorek’s MA thesis was “The civil liability in groups of companies”.

On June 3, 2011, our lawyer Lukasz Wieczorek presented a lecture on “The problem of criminalizing the prohibited agreements restricting competition (cartels) in antimonopoly law in comparative perspective” at the Conference “Goodbye Gordon Gekko? – White-collar crimes”. The Conference took place at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University.

On May 10, 2011 on website iwiesz24.pl an interview with Dr Sybilla stanisławska-Kloc was published. In the interview Dr Sybilla Stanisławska-Kloc inter alia reffered to the problem of copyright law boundaries. She also raised the isssue of permissible use of protected works and uploading files to online services. Additionally, Dr Sybilla Stanisławska-Kloc commented on recent plans of Press Law revision. The inteview

On April 14, 2011, Jarosław Sroczyński participated in the nomination ceremony of the 2011 Ranking of Law Firms, taking place in the offices of „Rzeczpospolita” in Warsaw. J. Sroczyński received a „Leading Lawyer” recommendation in the field of competition and antimonopoly law. Our law firm, Markiewicz & Sroczyński GP, was named first among the “recommended law firms” in the field of competition and antimonopoly law.