Institute for Internet Policy & Law @ Beijing Normal University

北京师范大学互联网政策与法律研究中心、联合国国际贸易法委员会亚太中心与北京师范大学国际电子商务法联合认证项目 

国际法学家讲座系列

2018年3月27日，北京师范大学互联网与法律研究中心、联合国国际贸易法委员会亚太中心与北京师范大学国际电子商务法联合认证项目主办的国际法学家讲座在后主楼1922法学院学术报告厅成功举办。

讲座主题为“版权制度与创作者及未来创作相协调”（Reconciling copyright with creators and future creativity），讲座专家为斯特拉斯堡大学国际知识产权研究中心主任克里斯托弗.盖葛教授。北京师范大学互联网政策与法律研究中心主任、联合国国际贸易法委员会亚太中心与北京师范大学国际电子商务法联合认证项目中方主任薛虹教授担任主持人与评议人。北师大法学院的20多位中外研究生以及来自10余个国家的留学生与访问、交换生参加了讲座，并与讲座专家进行了现场交流。

盖葛教授结合多国立法与判例详细介绍了版权法与衍生性艺术创作的关系，探讨了适用现行法律解决艺术创作限制的各类方案，提出了全面改革版权法律制度，建立社会化的权利管理机制的方案。盖葛教授认为，在国家主管机关的监督下，通过版权人与后续艺术创作者之间的协商谈判，可以既合理实现版权人的经济利益，又保障衍生性艺术创作的自由。薛虹教授指出，曾经于十年前在其出版的专著中提出版权社会化管理机制，以解决网络环境下版权法律制度与实践相脱节的问题。当时受到了美国等国学者的关注。薛教授认为，盖葛教授的改革建议有积极的、创新性的内容，值得国际版权法律学界进一步研究。

来自坦桑尼亚、英国苏格兰等中国法硕士研究生与交换生提出了富有价值的问题，与盖葛教授进行了讨论。研讨会气氛热烈。研讨会结束后，薛虹教授代表法学院向Christophe Geiger教授表示了衷心的感谢，并与与会成员进行合照，本次大会圆满结束。

On March 20-22, 2018, UNESCAP Legal and Technical Working Group Meeting, Interim Intergovernmental Steering Group Meeting and Capacity Building Workshop on Cross-Border Paperless Trade were held in the United Naitons Conference Center in Bangkok. Prof. Xue, as the Chair of Legal Panel of UNNeXT and initial drafter of the Issue Paper of the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific was invited to participate in all three meeting series.

The meetings, which brought together 42 nominated participants and 7 regional experts, was opened with remarks by Mr. Yann Duval, Chief, Trade Policy and Facilitation Section, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of the United Nations ESCAP. Prof. Xue made substantive contributions to the drafting and review of the Legal Gap Checklist and overview of the draft road map and its supporting documents. The meeting briefly reviewed the current draft road map of the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific. More than 30 countries reported on pilot cross-border paperless trade initiatives and projects. All the participants updated the meeting on their progress in paperless trade, and several countries reported their cross-border data exchange initiatives. The Framework Agreement came into being after receiving signatories fromf Armenia, Bangladesh, Combodia and China and is going to be accessed by Azerbaijan. It’s expected to enter into force in 2018 or 2019.

The Public-Private Dialogue on Existing and Emerging issues related to E-commerce and the Digital Economy was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on 3rd March, 2018, along with the APEC Senior Official Meetings. At the meeting, the participants discussed the development and dissemination of new technologies (cloud computing and big data), introduce the views to provisions related to Online Consumer Protection, Personal Information Protection, Electronic Authentication and Electronic Signatures, Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Messages, and reviewed the development of electronic transmitted content in APEC Economies.

Prof. Xue, appointed by the Ministry of Commerce as the national e-commerce expert, joined the conference and presented on the progress of the Chinese Draft E-Commerce Law, UNESCAP Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade and correlation of domain name system and internaitonal trade. Prof. Xue also exchanged the views with many other international experts and other economies’ governmental delegates.

2^nd Working Conference of 2^nd Expert Committee of APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance

  APEC Expert Committee for E-Commerce Business Alliance held its 2017 annual conference on 16^th December, 2017 in Maison Albar Hotel, Chengdu, China. The conference was hosted by China International Electronic Commerce Center and  APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Secretariat, organized by China International Electronic Commerce Co. LTD and Intelligence Industry Committee of APEC-ECBA, and supported by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China. APEC Research Center for Innovation and Development of Cross-border E-Commerce,  Chengdu Chengshi Culture Communication Co. LTD. and Sichuan Haidiya Technology Co. LTD were the co-organizers.

Prof. Xue gave a keynote presentation at the Conference on Chinese Draft E-Commerce Law and highlighted the key characteristics of the upcoming new Law that will be essential for the development of digital economy in the world as well as in China. Prof. Xue also actively took part in the expert discussion on global inclusive trade and pointed out that trade should not only benefit all the stakeholder involved (inclusive of currently disfranchised MSMEs, women and LDCs) but low or even eliminate barriers for accessing the global market. E-commerce’s potential to enable any business to access the borderless global access should not be reined by the traditional regulatory measures on exports and imports. New trade facilitation mechanisms, such as the enabling cross-border paperless trade through the UN Framework Agreement in Asia the Pacific , should be implemented for e-commerce and digital economy. Arbitrary distinctions and compliance measures (between goods and items or traders and buyers) should be reformed. Unification, simplification, digitization and automation should be the trend of development.

Agenda

Topic 1：APEC E-Commerce Development Report (2017) studying and best practice cases sharing

Moderator：Wang Jian, Chair of the Expert Committee, APEC-ECBA,  Director of APEC Cross-Border E-Commerce Innovation and Development Research Center

Armirudin Abdul Wahab, CEO Cyber Security Agency of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia

“Embracing The Growth and Trending Demand of E-Commerce in Malaysia”

Xue Hong, Director of Beijing Normal University Institute for Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) , Co-Director of UNCITRAL-BNU Joint Certificate Program on International E-Commerce Law

“An Overview of China’s Draft E-Commerce Law”

Qiu Qiong, Associate Dean, Research Institute of CIECC

“Global E-Commerce Report”

ž   Ouyang Cheng, Director of Cross-Border E-commerce Research Center of Alibaba Research Institute, Senior Expert of Alibaba Research Institute

“Report of Inclusive Trade Development and Chinese E-Commerce Practices”

Li Qian, VP- Public Affair and Policy, Amazon China

“Amazon China Releases the Cross-Border Online Shopping Trend Report 2016”

Topic 2： ”Jinjiang Proposal” Framework and 2018 Work Plan

Moderator：Wang Jian, Chair of the Expert Committee, APEC-ECBA

ž   Framework based on “Jinjiang Proposal” by Wang Jian

ž   Discussion on the framework

随着全球电子商务的发展，保护生产商和消费者权益愈来愈成为电子商务领域关注的焦点。为进一步发挥专业委员会作用，搭建行业专家交流平台，推动国际电子商务争议解决机制的研究和建立，促进形成以我为主的规则制定氛围，国际商会中国国家委员会仲裁委员会于2017年12月15日下午在国际商会大厦506会议室召开电子商务争议解决研讨会暨国际商会中国国家委员会（ICC China）仲裁委员会2017年下半年工作会议。ICC China仲裁委员会副主席、贸仲委副秘书长李虎博士，北京师范大学互联网政策与法律研究中心主任薛虹教授，ICC仲裁院委员、方达律师事务所合伙人师虹律师，阿里巴巴集团法务部樊俊伟高级法务等电子商务争议解决领域的专家在研讨会主题发言。薛虹教授介绍了我国《电子商务法》（草案）二次审议稿中关于电子商务争议解决章节的内容，深入分析该法的实施对于电子商务企业（特别是平台企业）的影响及我国网上争议解决制度的重大发展。薛教授还讨论了欧盟关于消费者非诉讼性争议解决指令及网上争议解决法规的主要内容及实施情况，分析了联合国国际贸易法委员会曾经存在的网上争议解决工作组及其所形成的“非约束性、仅供参考”的技术指南等国际法律文件。

与参会代表共同探讨全球电子商务争议解决的需求、现状和方式选择，并介绍和发布《当事人与仲裁庭在国际商会仲裁规则下参与仲裁程序的指引》、讨论ICC仲裁委员会2017年秋季会议成果等。薛教授详细解答了与会的企事业代表关于电子商务立法情况的各类问题。