Focus areas

Dinusha Mendis, Ruth Towse and Bartolomeo Meletti: Learning Tools for the Copyright User

Faculty Research Seminar Wednesday 14 December, 16.00, room F309 CopyrightUser.org is an online resource aimed at making UK copyright law accessible to creators, media professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and members of the public. The resource aims to inform creators about how to protect their work, how to license and exploit it and how to legally re-use… Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, Ruth Towse and Bartolomeo Meletti: Learning Tools for the Copyright User

Meeting at EUIPO with National Authorities for Orphan Works

The preliminary results of the EnDOW survey on the diligent search requirement across 20 EU member states have been presented and discussed in a Meeting organized by the European Intellectual Property Office with the Competent National Authorities for the Orphan Works Directive and the Orphan Works Database. The meeting took place on 7 December 2016 in the… Read more » about Meeting at EUIPO with National Authorities for Orphan Works

Response to proposed ‘press publication right’

A group of thirty seven professors of Intellectual Property and Information Law, led by Lionel Bently (CIPIL, University of Cambridge), has submitted to the Intellectual Property Office a response to the proposed introduction of a new right on press publications. The so-called ‘press publication right’, as included in Article 11 of the Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in… Read more » about Response to proposed ‘press publication right’

Who owns genetic databases?

Keynote speech of Maurizio Borghi at the Escuela Libre de Derecho of Mexico City, 29 November 2016, in the framework of the international conference “Ciencia y Derecho en México” (download the programme here.) Genetic databases are collections of genetic sequence information and other personal information about individuals’ medical history, which represent increasingly essential tools for biomedical… Read more » about Who owns genetic databases?