FridgeMonsters : Animation Tutorials

IPOS Talk : Thursday 4th October

Location : Basement 1, Foundation Studies, LaSalle College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street
Map : http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/index2.html
Time : 10.00am 12..00pm
Date : Thursday 4th October

Note : Please be seated promptly by 9.50am.

10.00am Introduction to IPOS and IP overview by Ms Michelle Chiang, Senior Executive, Capability Devt Dept, Infrastructure and Capability Devt Division, IPOS

10.15am Viewing of Copy Not Right VCD

10.30am Introduction to Copyright by Ms Elaine Leong, Senior Assistant
Director/Legal Counsel (Copyright), Legal Policy and International Affairs
Dept, Policy Division, IPOS

11.45am Q&A

12.00pm End

About the Speaker
Elaine Leong graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree in 1993 and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1994. She practised corporate real estate for 4 years and served 4 years as a law lecturer at Temasek Business School, Temasek Polytechnic.

In 2004, she obtained a Master of Laws (Intellectual Property & Technology Law) from the National University of Singapore. Elaine is a Senior Assistant Director/Legal Counsel in the Strategic Planning Division and deals with copyright law and policy and corporate strategic planning.

She serves on the IP Inter-Ministerial Committee chaired by the Attorney General's Chambers, which deals with World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights related issues, the implementation of IP obligations in free trade agreements and IPR enforcement. She has represented Singapore as a speaker and delegate at international conferences and meetings of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. As part of IPOS¹ IP public education initiative, she has delivered several talks and conducted workshops on copyright for trade and business associations, schools, educational institutions, libraries, government agencies and departments.

She has also worked with other government agencies on their copyright matters.