Intellectual Property Overlaps

Full course description

Picking up threads from the course Copyright and Related Rights and Trademarks, Copyright and Designs, in this course we go a step further, with particular focus on copyright and designs in a digital setting. 

Key deliverables from this course include:

1. An advanced discussion on the design protection, particularly in the context of emerging technologies such as 3-D printing;

2. Mapping out the intermediary liability regime in the internal market;

3. 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive - notable provisions such as mandatory exceptions relating to text and data mining, liability of online content sharing service providers and their implementation by Member States and the newly introduced press publishers right;

4. Digital Services Act Package: Interplay between Digital Services Act, the Data Act and Digital Markets Act; Special Focus: Very Large Online Platforms 

5. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence; and

6. Discussing IP Overlaps. Taking NFTs (non-fungible tokens), an emerging technology, as case study to illustrate IP overlaps. 

Taught by: Dr. Kalpana Tyagi and Prof. Dr. Alison Firth (U.Newcastle, U.Surrey (Emeritus), Barrister London)

Assessment Method: 4 written assignments. Two of these assignments will also include an oral presentation and live discussion.