Lingling Wei on “Olympic enclosures of generic words”December 19, 2014-Dr Lingling Wei presented her paper on Olympic Enclosure of Generic Words at the annual Congress of International Association of Sports law in Athens (from 11-13th December ). The paper examines the event specific legislation enacted for mega sporting games such Olympics. It concludes that the legislation’s approach of enclosing the generic words for the... Read more » about Lingling Wei on “Olympic enclosures of generic words”
CIPPM Researchers present at CREATe’s All-Hands MeetingSeptember 20, 2014-CIPPM Researchers Professor Maurizio Borghi, Dr. Marcella Favale, Dr. Fabian Homberg, Mr. Conor O’Kane, Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti, Dr. Dinusha Mendis and Professor Ruth Towse attended the All-Hands Meeting hosted by CREATe, University of Glasgow on 15-16 September 2014. Set in the beautiful Mackintosh Suite of House for an Art Lover (designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh), the... Read more » about CIPPM Researchers present at CREATe’s All-Hands Meeting
Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright ExchangeJune 27, 2014-Could technology override economics in the case of the Digital Copyright Exchange? Economic analysis of collective rights administration has so far strongly supported the natural monopoly case for single national collecting societies for particular bundles of rights protected by territorially based copyright law and the courts have gone along with that view. Digitization in the... Read more » about Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange
Launch of Copyrightuser.org in LondonMarch 12, 2014-The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) together with CREATe, University of Glasgow launched the Copyrightuser.org at The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Creative Economy Showcase. The event was held at Kings Place, London, on Wednesday 12th March 2014. The Showcase demonstrated the outputs and innovations of AHRC investments in the Creative Economy... Read more » about Launch of Copyrightuser.org in London