'Big Data in the platform economy: A need to redesign the rules?': Eleventh Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (audio)

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) and the UCLouvain (Belgium). He teaches as well at the KULeuven and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. His courses cover mainly copyright, media and design law. Alain graduated in law (1983) and obtained a Ph. D. in law (1992) from the UCLouvain. In addition, he obtained graduate degrees in economics (1984) and philosophy (1985). He has authored numerous articles and a few books, including Droit d’auteur et copyright (LGDJ and Bruylant, 1993), Droit d’auteur et numérique: logiciels, bases de données, multimédia (with Estelle Derclaye, Bruylant, 2001) and Quand Google défie le droit (De Boeck et Larcier, 2011). He has edited various books among which: Of Authors and Origins (with Brad Sherman, Clarendon Press, 1994), Droit d’auteur et liberté d’expression (with Fr. Tulkens, Larcier, 2006), Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice (with A. Gosseries et A. Marciano, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Secondary Liability in Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2009), Le téléchargement d’œuvres sur Internet (with C. Doutrelepont et Fr. Dubuisson, Larcier, 2012), Net Neutrality in Europe – La neutralité de l’Internet en Europe (Bruylant, 2013). Alain Strowel is a avocat at the Brussels bar since 1988. Alain Strowel’s practice concentrates on intellectual property, media and information technology law. Prior to join the U.S. firm Covington & Burling LLP (2001-2014), Alain worked in the Brussels IP section of the Dutch firm NautaDutilh. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.