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C. Op Den Kamp – The Paper Print Collection: How Copyright Formalities and Historical Accidents Led to Film History (2017)

Posted . Filed under Mass Digitization, Publications.

Claudy Op Den Kamp, 2017. The Paper Print Collection: How Copyright Formalities and Historical Accidents Led to Film History. UWA Law Review, 41 (2), 37-50.. Prior to the 1912 Townsend Amendment in US copyright law, motion pictures could not be registered as such for copyright protection. Seeking protection against competitors, filmmakers in the formative years of… Read more » about C. Op Den Kamp – The Paper Print Collection: How Copyright Formalities and Historical Accidents Led to Film History (2017)

M. Borghi, K. Erickson and M. Favale – With enough eyeballs all searches are diligent (2017)

Posted . Filed under Mass Digitization, Publications.

Maurizio Borghi, Kris Erickson and Marcella Favale “With enough eyeballs all searches are diligent: Mobilizing the crowd in copyright clearance for mass digitization”. Journal of Intellectual Property, 9 (1)  (2017), 135-166 Digitization of 20th Century cultural heritage is severely restricted due to the real or potential subsistence of copyright and related rights. Under the laws… Read more » about M. Borghi, K. Erickson and M. Favale – With enough eyeballs all searches are diligent (2017)

Paul Cole on Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo

Posted . Filed under IP Enterprise, Uncategorized.

In an article published on IP Watchdog, Professor Paul Cole critically examines a recent trend in US courts, lately confirmed in Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo Collaborative Services, to play down “incremental inventions”, even when they result from pioneering work of world-leading research institutions. “The Mayo/Alice framework needs reconsideration to place pioneering or breakthrough inventions and incremental inventions on… Read more » about Paul Cole on Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo

Visiting Research Fellows join CIPPM in Summer 2019

Posted . Filed under EU IP Policy, IP Training.

Three Visiting Research Fellows joined CIPPM / Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence this summer as part of the short-term residential fellowship programme 2019 Pieter van Cleynebruegel from the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII) of the University of Liège. Professor Van Cleynebruegel is a legal researcher on theories of regulation and their application to EU… Read more » about Visiting Research Fellows join CIPPM in Summer 2019