
Public Lectures Series 2021
Our public lectures series on topical issues of intellectual property law and policy is open to anyone to attend, but registration is required. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, all 2021 Public Lectures will be online. Please click on the link to register for free. Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley) “Convergent and Divergent EU and US […]

Unlocking Orphan Films: Introducing the EnDOW Community
Live streaming event in collaboration with BFI, Wednesday 18 November 2020

Observatory on transposition of Exceptions & Limitations
CIPPM / Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence has launched an Observatory on the national implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, with a special focus on the provisions on exceptions and limitations in the Directive. The Observatory, in the form of a Wiki project, collects documents on the consultation and […]
Ruth Towse: “Figuring it out: applying economics to copyright royalty rates for streamed music”
Working Paper No. 05-2020 July 2020 Music streaming burst into economists’ (and others’) consciousness with the Napster case. A few economists had written on copyright in the 1980s and a wider interest in the economics of digital production came from Shapiro and Varian’s book (albeit with little said on the role of copyright law). Still […]
Melanie Brown: “Exploring Article 8 of the Copyright Directive: Hope for Cultural Heritage”
Working Paper No. 04-2020 June 2020 Article 8 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market addresses an issue that the cultural heritage sector has been struggling with for a long time: the exploitation of out of commerce works. Article 8(1) enables CHIs to agree non-exclusive licenses for non-commercial purposes with collective […]