'Data property' - Bernt Hugenholtz: CIPIL Seminar

Bernt Hugenholtz, Professor of Copyright Law, and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam, spoke on the topic of "'Orthogonalising' Copyright: Reclaiming lost culture and getting authors paid" at a seminar on 16 November 2017. Bernt Hugenholtz is Professor of Copyright Law, and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. He is also a professor at the University of Bergen (Norway), and lecturer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (Munich). Prof. Hugenholtz has acted as an advisor to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Netherlands government. He is co-author and editor, with Prof. Thomas Dreier (TU Karlsruhe), of Concise European Copyright Law (2nd. ed. 2016), and co-author, with Professor Paul Goldstein (Stanford University), of International Copyright Law (3rd ed. 2013). Prof. Hugenholtz is one of the founders of the Wittem Group that drafted the European Copyright Code, and a co-founder and member of the European Copyright Society. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk