Publications

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”

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”