Since the early ’90s, the European Union has been acting as a global actor in the process of international harmonization of the laws protecting Intellectual Property Rights. Besides working towards the harmonization of the Intellectual Property laws of the Member States, the EU has also acted at international level to promote approximations of laws as an instrument of free trade and transfer of knowledge. Copyright is an important asset in this scheme, as the European Cultural production factors for a sizeable share of the global market.
The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) of Bournemouth University contributes to the European and international IP policy-making by joining the debate among governments, European institutions and IP scholars. For example, CIPPM has been part of the consortium of the EU funded project SEARCH (Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods) where it has carried out research to identify and explore barriers to innovation in the integration process between the European Union and its neighbouring countries. At policy level, CIPPM advocates for an EU copyright system which takes into account the legitimate interests of users of copyright works. In 2008, CIPPM has played a major role in the debate surrounding the Directive on the extension of copyright terms for sound recordings, by promoting a Joint Academic Statement signed by more than 50 EU academics. More recently, CIPPM has submitted a contribution to the open consultation of the European Union on the reform of Copyright Law, and has organized an international symposium on Geographical Indications (the first of this kind in the UK). Finally, the Centre is often involved in government-funded comparative research to study and assess the international landscape related to IPRs, mostly with a European interest. In this connection, the Centre has recently started a major research project on regulation of Internet Service Providers in China.
European and Global Intellectual Property Policy is an important subject-matter for our research Centre, which has developed and will develop even more projects, fellowship schemes, networks, and various academic activities in crucial areas of international innovation and dissemination of culture.
Dinusha Mendis - Professor Mendis is the Centre's Co-Director (Digital Copyright, IP & Emerging Technologies)
Illegal IPTV in the European Union - A project funded by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and carried out by an interdisciplinary team of experts from Bournemouth University, including the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) and the Cyber Security Unit. The infringement of broadcasting rights online has grown significantly in the last years, thanks to the ready availability […]
Regulating Internet Intermediaries in China: Legal and Empirical Evidence for Better Policy Making - This one-year project is funded by AHRC/Newton Fund as part of the AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright and IP Research in China. Principal investigator is Dr Lingling Wei, supported by Maurizio Borghi, Fabian Homberg and Marcella Favale and in collaboration Professor Shunde Li and Associate Professor Xianjue Luo from the University of Chinese Academy of […]
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 […]- New Book by Prof. Dinusha Mendis on 3D Printing and IP Law
- M. Borghi and S. Karapapa – Contractual restrictions on lawful use of information: sole-source databases protected by the back door?
- M. Favale, M. Kretschmer, D. Mendis, F. Homberg and D. Secchi – A Comparative Review of the Treatment of Orphan Works
- F. Homberg, M. Favale, M. Kretschmer, D. Mendis and D. Secchi – Orphan Works
- M. Borghi and M. Favale – Harmonization of Intellectual Property Rights within and beyond the European Union
- M. Favale – The Right of Access in Digital Copyright
- M. Kretschmer – Private Copying and Fair Compensation
- M. Favale – Approximation and DRM
- M. Favale – Copyright and Contract Law: Regulating User Contracts
- M. Favale and A. Plomer – Fundamental Disjunctions in the EU Legal Order on Human Tissue
Christine Riefa – Definition of standards for global e-commerce and consumer protection at the WTO: what can be learnt from TRIPS? September 18, 2019 - Research Seminar - Wednesday 18 September 2019
Arno Lodder – Regulation of algorithms: towards a taxonomy based on threats May 28, 2019 - Research seminar - Wednesday 3 July 16.00
Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel – By-design regulation and EU law: opportunities, challenges and the road ahead May 20, 2019 - Research seminar - Wednesday 12 June, 16.00
Siva Thambisetty – Improving Access to Patented Medicines: A Wicked Problem March 7, 2019 - Public Lecture, Thursday 7 March 2019, 18.00
Eleonora Rosati – Enforcement of IP rights over the internet: where are we now? February 7, 2019 - Public Lecture, Thursday 7 February 2019, 18.00
Visiting Research Fellows join CIPPM in Summer 2019 July 8, 2019 - Three Visiting Research Fellows joined CIPPM / Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence this summer as part of the short-term residential fellowship programme 2019 Pieter van Cleynebruegel from the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII) of the University of Liège. Professor Van Cleynebruegel is a legal researcher on theories of regulation and their application to EU […]
New Book by Prof. Dinusha Mendis on 3D Printing and IP Law March 31, 2019 - A new book titled ‘3D Printing and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Regulation’ published by Edward Elgar Publishers in February 2019 and edited by Professors Dinusha Mendis (Department of Law, CIPPM, Bournemouth University, UK) Mark Lemley (Stanford Law School, Stanford University, California USA) and Matthew Rimmer (Faculty of Law, Law School, Queensland University of Technology, Australia) […]
Funded PhD Studentship March 26, 2019 - Bournemouth University invites applications for a fully-funded PhD research studentship in law, with an expected starting date of September 2019. Applicants are invited to submit research proposals on the theme of Intellectual property and information rights in the European Digital Single Market: legal, regulatory and normative issues. The research will be conducted at the Centre […]
Event report: European Intellectual Property and its Limits February 5, 2019 - Inaugural Symposium – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for European Intellectual Property and Information Rights Wednesday 16 January 2019 >> Programme The symposium celebrated the launch of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, funded for 3 years from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Programme. There were numerous insightful and fascinating presentations across the day by academics […]
Marc Mimler’s article cited in the Opinion of Advocate General in Pelham December 18, 2018 - Advocate General Szpunar has delivered the Opinion in Case C‑476/17 Pelham and others v. Hütter, better known as the “Metall auf Metall” case. The case originates from a referral of the German Federal Court on the permissibility of sampling of music. The AG’s Opinion, which recommends the Court of Justice to rule that unlicensed sampling is copyright […]