Category: French Law
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My article on the text and data mining exception in the copyright directive proposal is now available in open access
My article entitled ‘The text and data mining exception in the proposal for a directive on copyright: why the European Union needs to go further than the laws of member states’ published in the law review Propriétés Intellectuelles back in April is now available in open access in both English (click here) and French (click…
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The text and data mining exceptions in the UK, France and the EU @ JUSPI Paris
At the start of the month, I was honoured to be invited in Paris to participate in the inaugural colloquium of a new group of IP scholars, ‘Les Jeunes Universitaires Spécialisés en Propriété Intellectuelle’ (JUSPI), literally the Young Academics Specialised in Intellectual Property, whose name, it transpired during the colloquium, was chosen in part to…
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The French private copying system after the 2016 copyright law reforms – BILETA 2017
Back in April I had the pleasure to join the BILETA conference which was held at the University of Minho in the beautiful city of Braga. As always with BILEAT the conference program was very rich (see attached BILETA 2017 Program) and the atmosphere was very collegial. And the Fado singing at the dinner was…
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IP and IT outside its borders – CUERPI Research Centre / Grenoble Law School
In December 2016, myself and three colleagues of the Edinburgh Law School had the pleasure of being invited to participate in the conference entitled “Intellectual Property and Information Technology outside its borders” organised by the CUERPI Research Centre at the Grenoble Law School. The programme of this multi-lingual conference (mostly in French and English, with…