'Open Data in European Intellectual Property Law' - Mireille van Eechoud: CIPIL Seminar

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 substantial part of her research focuses on international and European intellectual property law, especially copyright, related rights and database protection. Her most recent book in this field, co-authored with Hugenholtz et al. is Harmonizing European Copyright Law. The Challenges of Better Law Making (Kluwer Law International 2009). She is a member of the European Max-Planck Group for Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (CLIP). This international group of scholars develops principles and aims to provide independent advice to European and national law-makers. Mireille is the project leader of a multidisciplinary research project on creativity and collaborative authorship in copyright law (2010-2012). This is a collaborative research project funded by ESF/HERA, in which IViR partners with Infomedia (University of Bergen, Norway) and CIPIL. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk