Focus areas

A. Karanasiou – Towards a Magna Charta for the Internet

A Karanasiou, “Towards a Magna Carta for the Internet: A right to Online Protests?” inBalcells, J., Cerrillo i Martínez, A., Peguera, M., Peña-López, I., Pifarré de Moner, M.J., & Vilasau Solana, M. (coords.) (2014). Internet, Law and Politics. A decade of transformations. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics. Universitat Oberta… Read more » about A. Karanasiou – Towards a Magna Charta for the Internet

Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange

Could technology override economics in the case of the Digital Copyright Exchange? Economic analysis of collective rights administration has so far strongly supported the natural monopoly case for single national collecting societies for particular bundles of rights protected by territorially based copyright law and the courts have gone along with that view. Digitization in the… Read more » about Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange

CIPPM visit to China: opening opportunities for IP research and education

China has during the past five year experienced explosive development in the Intellectual Property field. The country has implemented its national IP strategy  and its application volume of trade mark, patent and design has ranked NO. 1 in the world for the past four continuous years. The country thus presents a gold mine for IP… Read more » about CIPPM visit to China: opening opportunities for IP research and education

Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing

Sheet music for Mozart's Coda Sonata in C Major

Project funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2014-2016 (research grant no. AH/L004666/1) The research aims to analyse the survival of music publishing industry over a long period of time as it adapted its products, marketing strategies and business models to new technologies and legislative changes. The analysis is expected to provide new… Read more » about Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing

Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)

This Project is funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development in the ‘Socio-economic sciences and the humanities’ area (2011-2014) The main objective of this project is to strengthen the integration process between the EU and the Neighbourhood Countries (NCs), by improving the understanding of the institutional framework… Read more » about Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)