Since the early ’90s, the European Union has been acting as a global actor in the process of international harmonization of the laws protecting Intellectual Property Rights. Besides working towards the harmonization of the Intellectual Property laws of the Member States, the EU has also acted at international level to promote approximations of laws as an instrument of free trade and transfer of knowledge. Copyright is an important asset in this scheme, as the European Cultural production factors for a sizeable share of the global market.
The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) of Bournemouth University contributes to the European and international IP policy-making by joining the debate among governments, European institutions and IP scholars. For example, CIPPM has been part of the consortium of the EU funded project SEARCH (Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods) where it has carried out research to identify and explore barriers to innovation in the integration process between the European Union and its neighbouring countries. At policy level, CIPPM advocates for an EU copyright system which takes into account the legitimate interests of users of copyright works. In 2008, CIPPM has played a major role in the debate surrounding the Directive on the extension of copyright terms for sound recordings, by promoting a Joint Academic Statement signed by more than 50 EU academics. More recently, CIPPM has submitted a contribution to the open consultation of the European Union on the reform of Copyright Law, and has organized an international symposium on Geographical Indications (the first of this kind in the UK). Finally, the Centre is often involved in government-funded comparative research to study and assess the international landscape related to IPRs, mostly with a European interest. In this connection, the Centre has recently started a major research project on regulation of Internet Service Providers in China.
European and Global Intellectual Property Policy is an important subject-matter for our research Centre, which has developed and will develop even more projects, fellowship schemes, networks, and various academic activities in crucial areas of international innovation and dissemination of culture.
Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations” - Mendis D. White B and Hong D., Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations (Knowledge Rights 21, 2024) (114pp) Adopting a desk-based literature review, as well as discussion with national experts from the relevant jurisdictions, this report explores the adoption, use and impact of open norms, as introduced in seven... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations”
CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World - A research team consisting of Prof. Dinusha Mendis (Director, CIPPM), Dr Dukki Hong (PDRA) and Mr Ben White (PhD candidate) at CIPPM have been selected to carry out a 1-year research project looking at the experience of those countries around the world which have adopted open approaches to copyright experiences, and the scope for adopting the... Read more » about CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for European Intellectual Property and Information Rights - CIPPM received a 3-years funding from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Programme to set up a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on “European Intellectual Property and Information Rights”. The Centre of Excellence aims at giving support, visibility, and enhanced impact to a series of activities in crucial areas of European integration such as Copyright and related... Read more » about Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for European Intellectual Property and Information Rights
Collection of National Key Enforcement Judgments related to Intellectual Property Rights - A project commissioned by the Observatory of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights is carried out by CIPPM in collaboration with Milieu Consulting SPRL. This 4-year project will run from January 2021 to December 2024, with the objective being to expand, update and consolidate the EUIPO’s eSearch Case... Read more » about Collection of National Key Enforcement Judgments related to Intellectual Property Rights
Study on IP infringement on online trading platforms - A project funded by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and carried out by an interdisciplinary team of experts from Bournemouth University, including the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) and the Cyber Security Unit. The study covers the legal and technical dimensions of IP infringement through vendor accounts on third-party trading platforms,... Read more » about Study on IP infringement on online trading platforms Software and Copyright - Seeking Clarity Through European Copyright Law Project coordinator: Dinusha Mendis Project description The project explores the opportunities and challenges presented by new and emerging technologies with a specific focus on software and its implications for EU copyright and copyright licensing. In doing so, the project will particularly question the concept of the ‘author’ and ‘owner’... Read more » about Software and Copyright Copyright exceptions as user’s rights - Project coordinators: Maurizio Borghi and Guy Pessach Project description Permitted uses of copyright works are an integral part of the copyright system. They play a key role in securing a balance between affording the copyright holder certain rights while encouraging others to use the work to build new knowledge. However, contemporary research underscores copyright’s chilling... Read more » about Copyright exceptions as user’s rights Robots, the new judges - Digital rights and defences in the networked environment Project coordinator: Dr Marcella Favale Project description Internet platforms, currently labelled by law as ‘intermediaries’, have revolutionized the digital world as we know it. Online purchases, free content, social contacts, are all parts of this scenario. In this picture, internet users are also content creators, but to... Read more » about Robots, the new judges
Illegal IPTV in the European Union - A project funded by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and carried out by an interdisciplinary team of experts from Bournemouth University, including the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) and the Cyber Security Unit. >> Report published on 27 November 2019 The infringement of broadcasting rights online has grown significantly in the... Read more » about Illegal IPTV in the European Union
Regulating Internet Intermediaries in China: Legal and Empirical Evidence for Better Policy Making - This one-year project is funded by AHRC/Newton Fund as part of the AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright and IP Research in China. Principal investigator is Dr Lingling Wei, supported by Maurizio Borghi, Fabian Homberg and Marcella Favale and in collaboration Professor Shunde Li and Associate Professor Xianjue Luo from the University of Chinese Academy of... Read more » about Regulating Internet Intermediaries in China: Legal and Empirical Evidence for Better Policy Making Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations” - Mendis D. White B and Hong D., Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations (Knowledge Rights 21, 2024) (114pp) Adopting a desk-based literature review, as well as discussion with national experts from the relevant jurisdictions, this report explores the adoption, use and impact of open norms, as introduced in seven... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations”
Dinusha Mendis and Rosa Ballardini: “Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing” - Mendis D and Ballardini R., ‘Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing’ in Pei E et al (eds), Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing (Springer; 2023), pp. 87-99 Through an analysis of copyright and patent laws, this chapter considers the implications arising from 3D printing and 3D scanning. In... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis and Rosa Ballardini: “Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing”
Dinusha Mendis and Dukki Hong: “Informational Rights: Puzzles of Co-Production in 3D Printing” - Mendis D and Hong D., ‘Informational Rights: Puzzles of Co-Production in 3D Printing’ in M. Borghi and R. Brownsword (eds), Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society: Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs, (Routledge, 2022) The chapter considers consumer input in the 3D printing environment in light of 3D models designed for mass customisation. Focusing on... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis and Dukki Hong: “Informational Rights: Puzzles of Co-Production in 3D Printing”
Marcella Favale: “The role of the CJEU in the development of EU copyright law: an empirical experience” - Working Paper No. 03-2020 May 2020 The Court of Justice of the European Union has an undiscussed role in shaping EU Governance. Evidence-based policy has grown crucial to inform worldwide governance, and therefore demand for empirical studies is raising. However, empirical methods applied to legal reasoning are challenging, for the inherent nuanced nature of this... Read more » about Marcella Favale: “The role of the CJEU in the development of EU copyright law: an empirical experience”
Maria Lillà Montagnani: “Virtues and Perils of Algorithmic Enforcement and Content Regulation in the EU – A Toolkit for a Balanced Algorithmic Copyright Enforcement” - Working Paper No. 02-2020 April 2020 Within the recent European policies and actions on illegal content, a trend towards algorithmic enforcement of content regulation has emerged. Regardless of the nature of the content, hard and soft law provisions more or less explicitly require online platforms to resort to technological systems to comply with the law.... Read more » about Maria Lillà Montagnani: “Virtues and Perils of Algorithmic Enforcement and Content Regulation in the EU – A Toolkit for a Balanced Algorithmic Copyright Enforcement”
Major Study on IP implications of 3D Printing Now Published - A large scale empirical and legal study on the Intellectual Property Implications of the Development of Industrial 3D Printing, commissioned by the European Commission in 2018 to the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) was published in April 2020. The published report (spanning 257 pages), provides an in-depth exploration of the past and current... Read more » about Major Study on IP implications of 3D Printing Now Published Maurizio Borghi “Data portability and regulation of digital markets” - Working Paper No. 02-2019 September 2019 The new General Data Protection Regulation introduced the “right to portability of personal data”. Conceived to give effectiveness to individual interests, the regulation is at the same time a pro-competitive tool with important regulatory effects on digital markets. As a result of the extensive interpretation of “personal data” that... Read more » about Maurizio Borghi “Data portability and regulation of digital markets”
New Book by Prof. Dinusha Mendis on 3D Printing and IP Law - A new book titled ‘3D Printing and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Regulation’ published by Edward Elgar Publishers in February 2019 and edited by Professors Dinusha Mendis (Department of Law, CIPPM, Bournemouth University, UK) Mark Lemley (Stanford Law School, Stanford University, California USA) and Matthew Rimmer (Faculty of Law, Law School, Queensland University of Technology, Australia)... Read more » about New Book by Prof. Dinusha Mendis on 3D Printing and IP Law Roger Brownsword: “Informational Rights, Informational Wrongs, and Regulatory Responsibilities” - Working Paper No. 01-2019 January 2019 The basic idea of this positioning paper is to map the landscape of our informational interests and to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern ‘information societies’. To a considerable extent, the rights and wrongs under consideration arise from the disruptive effects of... Read more » about Roger Brownsword: “Informational Rights, Informational Wrongs, and Regulatory Responsibilities”
D. Mendis – CRM Directive: An Analysis - D. Mendis, Directive 2014 / 26 / EU on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights and Multi-Territorial Licensing of Rights in Musical Works for Online Use in the Internal Market in A. Lodder & A. Murray (eds), EU Regulation of E-Commerce – A Commentary (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers; 2017), pp. 290-312 The chapter explores... Read more » about D. Mendis – CRM Directive: An Analysis
Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable April 9, 2025 - On 9th April 2025, CIPPM will host a stakeholder roundtable on ‘deepfake and the law’. The event follows on from the stakeholder roundtable which was hosted at Waseda University Tokyo on 16 December 2024 and forms part of the project funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation to carry out research into deepfake technology and the law. The... Read more » about Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable
Mr José Graça Aranha: “International and Multilateral IP Systems and UNSDGs” February 13, 2023 - Public Lecture: 13 February 2023Abraham Drassinower “Technological Neutrality in Copyright” June 30, 2021 - Online research seminar - Wednesday 30 June 2021
Pamela Samuelson: “Convergent and Divergent EU and US Approaches to Intermediary Liability for Copyright Infringement” February 17, 2021 - Online Public Lecture - Wednesday 17 February
Observatory on Digital Single Market Directive Exceptions and Limitations December 2, 2020 - Live Webinar - Wednesday 2 December 2020 Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable April 9, 2025 - On 9th April 2025, CIPPM will host a stakeholder roundtable on ‘deepfake and the law’. The event follows on from the stakeholder roundtable which was hosted at Waseda University Tokyo on 16 December 2024 and forms part of the project funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation to carry out research into deepfake technology and the law. The... Read more » about Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable
CIPPM researchers present findings from copyright open norms project at UKIPO and European Commission May 29, 2024 - On Wednesday 22nd May and Friday 24th May 2024, CIPPM researchers, Dinusha Mendis, Benjamin White and Dukki Hong were invited to present their research on copyright and open norms in seven jurisdictions at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and European Commission respectively. The project funded by Knowledge Rights 21 explores the adoption, use and... Read more » about CIPPM researchers present findings from copyright open norms project at UKIPO and European Commission
Keynote at the International Interdisciplinary Seminar on Development and Society May 17, 2024 - The IV International Interdisciplinary Seminar on Development and Society, held by Uniarp University in Brazil on 17 May 2024 featured a keynote speech by Dr Suelen Carls, who examined how regional integration efforts can advance sustainability. Taking the European Union’s dynamic approach to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Dr Carls highlighted how integrating environmental and social... Read more » about Keynote at the International Interdisciplinary Seminar on Development and Society
CIPPM Publishes a New Report on Illegal IPTV in Europe and UK December 15, 2022 - In April 2022, CIPPM was commissioned by the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) to further explore the state of illegal IPTV in Europe. The aim of the AAPA commissioned project was to build on the research carried out by the CIPPM team, during 2018-2019 for a project commissioned by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on... Read more » about CIPPM Publishes a New Report on Illegal IPTV in Europe and UK CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World September 16, 2022 - A research team consisting of Prof. Dinusha Mendis (Director, CIPPM), Dr Dukki Hong (PDRA) and Mr Ben White (PhD candidate) at CIPPM have been selected to carry out a 1-year research project looking at the experience of those countries around the world which have adopted open approaches to copyright experiences, and the scope for adopting the... Read more » about CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World
