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Research into 3D Printing and Intellectual Property Law presented in Helsinki, Bournemouth and Nottingham

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Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM)’s and Associate Professor in Law was recently invited to present her research in 3D printing and Intellectual Property (IP) law in Helsinki and Nottingham.  Dinusha also hosted an event on this topic at Bournemouth University’s Festival of Learning in June 1014. In April 2014, Dinusha was… Read more » about Research into 3D Printing and Intellectual Property Law presented in Helsinki, Bournemouth and Nottingham

Copyrightuser.org Updated to Reflect Changes in UK Copyright Law

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Copyrightuser.org – a co-production between CIPPM Bournemouth University and CREATe, University of Glasgow – has been updated in light of the changes to UK copyright law made on 1 June 2014. Learning from the difficulties encountered by other initiatives in the field of copyright education, the Copyright User project aims at keeping up with the evolving copyright landscape. Copyrightuser.org offers… Read more » about Copyrightuser.org Updated to Reflect Changes in UK Copyright Law

Online protest: towards a Magna Carta for the Internet

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CIPPM’s Argyro Karanasiou presented her paper Towards a Magna Carta : A right to online protests? at the 10th International conference on Internet, Law and Politics 2014. The paper discusses the free speech argument for treating DDoS attacks online as the digital counterpart of an online sit in. The paper examines the changing face of… Read more » about Online protest: towards a Magna Carta for the Internet

Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange

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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

Eat Dorset: Great food for the greater good

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Bournemouth and Poole have been selected as one of six cities in the UK Sustainable Food Cities Programme. This interactive session looked at consumer attitudes to sustainability, local and regional food and drink and legal protection of local food. The event included presentations by a team of academics and by local producers as well as tasting opportunities. Festival of learning, Monday… Read more » about Eat Dorset: Great food for the greater good