Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast

On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'Intellectual Property and Human Rights'. In this recording, Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan of the University of Cambridge speaks on the topic of 'Linking Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Concepts, Perspectives, and Tools for Integration'.

On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'Intellectual Property and Human Rights'. In this recording, Dr Surabhi Ranganathan of the University of Cambridge speaks on the topic of 'The International Sources of Human Rights: The UDHR, Covenants, ECHR and EU Charter'.

Rupprecht Podszun is a full professor for civil law and competition law at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany. Previously, he held the chair for civil law, IP law and economic law at the University of Bayreuth. He was a Senior Research Fellow with the Munich Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition from 2007-2012 and a case officer at the German national competition authority from...

Dr Kathy Bowrey is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her research explores laws and practices that inform the production, distribution and reception of culture and knowledge creation, with a particular interest in analysing the impact of the regulatory environment on creative practice, public institutions and understandings of community, ident...

Professor Michael Madison is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He writes and teaches about intellectual property law and policy, and about questions concerning the production and distribution of knowledge and innovation. He is the author of more than 30 journal articles and book chapters, the co-author of The L...

Dr Rufus Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge, an international non-profit using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and see it used to create insight that drives change. He was formerly a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and remains an Associate of the Centre for Information and Intellectua...

On Thursday 28 April, Dr David Erdos, University Lecturer in Law and the Open Society, Faculty of Law & WYNG Fellow in Law, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge gave a CELS/CIPIL Joint Seminar on the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This seminar takes a first look at the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now finally agreed by the European institutions. Is it a “histo...

Dr Orla Lynskey of the London School of Economics gave an evening seminar entitled "The Consolidation of Personal Datasets: From Data Protection to Data Plurality" on Thursday 21 April 2016 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk

On Saturday 12 March 2016 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'The Essence of IP: Scope of Protection'. In this recording, Sara Ashby (Redd Solicitors) speaks on the topic of 'Scope of Designs: Missed Opportunities, Mysteries and Misunderstood'.

On Saturday 12 March 2016 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'The Essence of IP: Scope of Protection'. In this recording, Simon Malyniz QC (3 New Square) speaks on the topic of 'Not Just Black and White: Distilling the Ingredients of Trade Mark Scope'.

On Saturday 12 March 2016 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'The Essence of IP: Scope of Protection'. In this recording, Michael Silverleaf QC (11 South Square) speaks on the topic of 'Fair Protection or Reasonable Certainty: Which is it to Be?'.

Professor Alain Strowel delivered the eleventh Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Big Data in the platform economy: A need to redesign the rules?' on 8 March 2016 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Alain serves as a professor at the Saint-Louis University (Brussels) an...

Dev Gangjee joined Oxford in 2013 as an Associate Professor in Intellectual Property within the Law Faculty as well as a Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda's College. He is presently Director of the Oxford Diploma in IP Law and Practice. Prior to this, he was a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics. Dev is a graduate of the National Law School of India and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Schola...

Patricia Collis is a UK and European trade mark and design attorney at Bird & Bird in London. She has worked in the field of brand management for almost 10 years, and acted for some of the world’s largest brands. Prior to embarking on this career she studied for a law degree and then an LLM at the University of Cambridge. Patricia gave an evening seminar entitled "A Career in Brand Management: Bec...

Christopher Kuner Professor of Law and Co-Chairman (with Prof. Paul De Hert) of the Brussels Privacy Research Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, gave an evening seminar entitled "Reality and illusion in EU data protection law post Schrems" on Monday 25 January 2016 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). BACKGOUND TO THE TALK: The p...

Professor Carlos Maria Correa (Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property at the Law Faculty, University of Buenos Aires) gave a seminar entitled "The Role of Intellectual Property for Development – Experiences from 20 Years of TRIPS" on Thursday 26 November 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). P...

Rebecca MacKinnon (Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America) gave a seminar entitled "Ranking Digital Rights Project" on Friday 20 November 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Rebecca MacKinnon is Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America. Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwid...

On Tuesday 10 November 2015, Lionel Bently and Jane C Ginsburg presented a discussion on 'Fair Quotation and Fair Use: Appropriation Art, Data-mining, and Google Books' in the Harrods Room at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Professor Jane Ginsburg FBA is Morton L Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University in the City of New York and an Honorary Fellow...

Professor Dan Burk (University of California, Irvine) gave an evening seminar entitled "Inventing Around Copyright" on Thursday 23 April 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Dan L. Burk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a founding member of the law faculty. An internationally p...

Mireille van Eechoud, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, gave an evening seminar entitled "Open Data in European Intellectual Property Law" on Thursday 13 March 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Mireille van Eechoud is associate professor, and teaches in IViR's Information Law master programme. A substant...

Professor Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley, delivered the Tenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: A Pragmatic Approach' on Tuesday 10 March as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Di...

Laura A. Heymann, William & Mary Law School, gave an evening seminar entitled "Dialogues of Authenticity" on Thursday 26 February 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Laura Heymann is Vice-Dean at William & Mary Law School, where she is also a Professor of Law. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School...

Jennifer Davis (University of Cambridge) gave an evening seminar entitled "The problem with the average consumer in European trade mark law" on Thursday 19 February 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). The talk considers the problem of identifying the average consumer in EU trade mark law. It suggests that his or her position in...

Manuel Desantes of the University of Alicante, gave an evening seminar entitled "The New European Patent Environment: an Opportunity or a Failure?" on Thursday 12 February 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Abstract: The non-existence of an actual EU patent system is an important obstacle for the achievement of the internal ma...

Professor Thomas Cottier of the University of Bern, gave an evening seminar entitled "International Trade and Intellectual Property Protection: Past, Present and Future" on Thursday 29 January 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Abstract: The talk will deal with the fundamentals in the relation between Intellectual Property (IP...