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Meeting at EUIPO with National Authorities for Orphan Works

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The preliminary results of the EnDOW survey on the diligent search requirement across 20 EU member states have been presented and discussed in a Meeting organized by the European Intellectual Property Office with the Competent National Authorities for the Orphan Works Directive and the Orphan Works Database. The meeting took place on 7 December 2016 in the… Read more » about Meeting at EUIPO with National Authorities for Orphan Works

Call for papers: Ethics of Intellectual Property Rights

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On 17 March 2017, CIPPM will host the first workshop of the 2017 New IP Lawyers Workshop Series “Ethics of Intellectual Property Rights: Challenges & Solutions”. The workshop is open to PhD students who explore the role of ethics in all areas of intellectual rights.

Response to proposed ‘press publication right’

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A group of thirty seven professors of Intellectual Property and Information Law, led by Lionel Bently (CIPIL, University of Cambridge), has submitted to the Intellectual Property Office a response to the proposed introduction of a new right on press publications. The so-called ‘press publication right’, as included in Article 11 of the Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in… Read more » about Response to proposed ‘press publication right’