Publications

Maria Lillà Montagnani: “Virtues and Perils of Algorithmic Enforcement and Content Regulation in the EU – A Toolkit for a Balanced Algorithmic Copyright Enforcement”

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

Working Paper No. 02-2020 April 2020 Within the recent European policies and actions on illegal content, a trend towards algorithmic enforcement of content regulation has emerged. Regardless of the nature of the content, hard and soft law provisions more or less explicitly require online platforms to resort to technological systems to comply with the law…. Read more » about Maria Lillà Montagnani: “Virtues and Perils of Algorithmic Enforcement and Content Regulation in the EU – A Toolkit for a Balanced Algorithmic Copyright Enforcement”

Major Study on IP implications of 3D Printing Now Published

Posted . Filed under Emergent Technologies, Focus areas, Publications, UK EU IP Policy, Uncategorized.

A large scale empirical and legal study on the Intellectual Property Implications of the Development of Industrial 3D Printing, commissioned by the European Commission in 2018 to the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) was published in April 2020. The published report (spanning 257 pages), provides an in-depth exploration of the past and current… Read more » about Major Study on IP implications of 3D Printing Now Published

Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Publications, Working papers.

Working Paper No. 01-2020 January 2020 The intervention of digital service providers (DSPs) or platforms such as Spotify, AppleMusic and Tidal supplying music streamed music has fundamentally altered the way that song-writers and recording artists are paid and the operation of copyright management organisations (CMOs). Platform economics has emerged from the economic analysis of two-… Read more » about Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”

Maurizio Borghi: “Reconstructing fairness – The problem with fair use exclusivity”

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Publications, Working papers.

Working Paper No. 04-2019 October 2019 Exemptions from copyright infringement play a pivotal role in the new digital economy. Tech companies rely heavily on fair use, fair dealing and other statutory exceptions, as well as on safe-harbour limitations of liability. For many businesses, the availability of a copyright exemption represents an asset that is as… Read more » about Maurizio Borghi: “Reconstructing fairness – The problem with fair use exclusivity”

Dinusha Mendis, “Fit for Purpose? 3D Printing and the Implications for Design Law: Opportunities and Challenges”

Posted . Filed under Emergent Technologies, Publications, Working papers.

Working Paper No 03.2019 October 2019 Enforcement may become even more complex in the future with the emergence of 3D printing. This technology makes it easier to breach industrial designs and hence it is necessary to question exactly how rights will be enforced in the future … Enforcing infringement laws is likely to become a… Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, “Fit for Purpose? 3D Printing and the Implications for Design Law: Opportunities and Challenges”