CIPPM: Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
The Digital Economy Bill and the pre-election “wash up” In Britain’s unwritten constitution, Parliament reigns supreme. Parliament can make any law it chooses. Britain also has agreed to respect certain fundamental rights under international and European law. Normally, Parliament amends Statutes that are found not to be compliant, say, with the European Convention on Human… Read more » about Statement on constitutional aspects of the Digital Economy Bill
Symposium 2010
Marcella Favale, Martin Kretschmer, Estelle Derclaye and Richard Watt – The relationship between copyright and contract law. Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy, 2010
Marcella Favale and Estelle Derclaye, “Copyright and Contract Law: Regulating User Contracts: The State of the Art and a Research Agenda”, J. Intell. Prop. L., 2010, 18-65
Research Question: How are television formats traded in the absence of protection under copyright law? Why pay when you can copy for free? Methodology: Three Steps- 1. Creation and analysis of database of 59 reported format disputes between 1988 and 2008. 2. Semi-structured interviews with media sellers / buyers at 3 international TV trade fairs… Read more » about Exploitation of TV Formats
