Publications

Suelen Carls and Mohammed Amal: “From West to East: Mercosur and Singapore agree on FTA”

Posted . Filed under IP for Global Sustainability, Publications.

Carls S. and Amal M., From West to East: Mercosur and Singapore agree on FTA (2022) 17(11) Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 898-902 Among the Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), the free trade agreement between them and Singapore reveals Brazil’s clear interest in expanding economic and trade relations with key players… Read more » about Suelen Carls and Mohammed Amal: “From West to East: Mercosur and Singapore agree on FTA”

Marcella Favale: “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech and Platforms”

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Emergent Technologies, Publications.

Favale M., Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech and Platforms (2022) 44(8) European Intellectual Property Review, pp. 461 – 471 On the 16th of October 2020, a middle-school teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a terrorist who would not know of his existence if not for a number of videos posted on social… Read more » about Marcella Favale: “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech and Platforms”

Reto M. Hilty, Pedro Henrique D. Batista, and Suelen Carls: “Traditional knowledge, databases and prior art: Options for an effective defensive use of TK against undue patent granting”

Posted . Filed under IP for Global Sustainability, Publications.

Reto M. Hilty, Pedro Henrique D. Batista, and Suelen Carls, ‘Traditional knowledge, databases and prior art: Options for an effective defensive use of TK against undue patent granting’ in Stamatoudi I., (ed), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage (Edward Elgar, 2022) pp. 132-153 The defensive protection of traditional knowledge (TK) is one of the… Read more » about Reto M. Hilty, Pedro Henrique D. Batista, and Suelen Carls: “Traditional knowledge, databases and prior art: Options for an effective defensive use of TK against undue patent granting”

Melanie Brown: “Exploring Article 8 of the Copyright Directive: Hope for Cultural Heritage”

Posted . Filed under Cultural Heritage, Publications, Working papers.

Working Paper No. 04-2020 June 2020 Article 8 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market addresses an issue that the cultural heritage sector has been struggling with for a long time: the exploitation of out of commerce works. Article 8(1) enables CHIs to agree non-exclusive licenses for non-commercial purposes with collective… Read more » about Melanie Brown: “Exploring Article 8 of the Copyright Directive: Hope for Cultural Heritage”

Marcella Favale: “The role of the CJEU in the development of EU copyright law: an empirical experience”

Posted . Filed under Publications, UK EU IP Policy, Working papers.

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”