Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

PIJIP Research Outputs

• Recent Publications
  • Michael Palmedo. A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions. Review of Economic Research of Copyright Issues. Vol 19, pp. 52-75, 2022.
  • Sean M. Fiil-Flynn, Brandon Butler, Michael Carroll, Or Cohen-Sasson, Carys Craig, Lucie Guibault, Peter Jaszi, Bernd Justin Jutte, Ariel Katz, Joao Pedro Quintais, Thomas Margoni, Allan Rocha de Souza, Matthew Sag, Rachael Samberg, Luca Schirru, Martin Senftleben, Ofer Tur-Sinai, and Jorge L. Contreras. Legal Reform to Enhance Global Text and Data Mining Research. Science. Vol. 378, No. 6623, pp. 951-953, 2022. 
  • Sean Flynn, Luca Schirru, Michael Palmedo, and Andrés Izquierdo. Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright. PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series no. 75, 2022. 
• User Rights Database and Related Materials
  • Copyright User Rights Database
  • PIJIP Copyright User Rights Survey
  • Sean Flynn and Michael Palmedo. The User Rights Database: Measuring the Impact of Opening Copyright Exceptions. Fifth Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest. September, 2018.  
  • Sean Flynn and Michael Palmedo. The User Rights Database: Measuring the Impact of Copyright Balance. PIJIP Working Paper 2017-03. November 2017. 
    • Handout: English | Portuguese
• Model Flexible Use Clause and Supporting Documents
  • Model Flexible Use Clause, v.1.0
  • Masterlist:  Limitations and Exceptions Provisions in National Laws
  • Appendix I: Presumptively Lawful Purposes (Survey of Specific L&Es)
  • Appendix II: Examples of Flexible Limitations and Exceptions from Existing and Proposed Laws
  • Appendix III: Responding to Frequently Asked Questions About Flexible Use Provisions

Copyright Scholarship by Global Expert Network Members

• Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge 
  • Whatever Became of Global Mandatory Fair Use? A Case Study in Dysfunctional Pluralism (University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 34, 2018) (with Tanya Aplin)
• Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv University 
  • Joint Special 301 Comment on Identification of Countries Under Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974 (2016)
  • Judicial Snapshots and Fair Use Theory, 5 Queen Mary J. Intell. Prop. 264 (2015) 
• Michael Carroll, Washington College of Law 
  • Evaluating the Benefits of Fair Use: A Response to the PWC Report on the Costs and Benefits of 'Fair Use' (Submission to the Australia Productivity Commission, 2016) (with Sean Flynn, Peter A. Jaszi, Ariel Katz, Mike Palmedo, and Kimberlee G. Weatherall)
  • Intellectual Property and Related Rights in Climate Data (Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals, 347)
  • Sharing Research Data and Intellectual Property Law: A Primer, 13 PLoS Biology (2015): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002235
• Alberto Cerda, Universidad de Chile
  • Internet Freedom is Not Enough, 18 SUR Int'l J. on Hum. Rts. (2013)
  • Beyond the Unrealistic Solution for Development Provided by the Appendix of the Berne Convention on Copyright (PIJIP Research Paper No. 8, 2012)
• Ronan Deazley, Queen's University
  • Perpetual Copyright and Constitutional Property, 4 Intell. Prop. Q. 253 (2018) (with Frankie McCarthy)
  • Comics, Copyright and Academic Publishing, 2 The Comics Grid (2014)
• Niva Elkin, University of Haifa 
  • Behind the Scenes of Online Copyright Enforcement: Empirical Evidence on Notice & Takedown, 50 Conn. L. Rev. (2017) (with Sharon Bar-Ziv)
  • Copyright in a Digital Ecosystem: A User-Rights Approach, in Copyright in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions (Ruth Okediji 2015) 
  • Taking Users' Rights to the Next Level: A Pragmatist Approach to Fair Use, 33 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. (2015) (with Orit Frischman Afori)
• Sean Flynn, Washington College of Law
  • Toward Action with Respect to the Limitations and Exceptions Regime, InfoJustice.org (Nov. 28, 2018), http://infojustice.org/archives/40653
  • A Treaty on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Educational and Research Activities, InfoJustice.org (Oct. 8, 2018), http://infojustice.org/archives/40317
  • Endorse the Civil Society Proposed Treaty on Copyright Exceptions for Educational and Research Activities, InfoJustice.org (May 31, 2018), https://www.ip-watch.org/2018/05/31/draft-broadcast-treaty-takes-restrictive-approach-limitations-exceptions/
• Christophe Geiger, Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies
  • Towards a European ‘Fair Use’ Grounded in Freedom of Expression (CEIPI Research Paper No. 02-19, 2019) (with Elena Izyumenko)
  • Freedom of Artistic Creativity and Copyright Law: A Compatible Combination? 8 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 413 (2019)
• Michael Geist, University of Ottawa 
  • "Sole Responsibility" for the Copyright Review: Industry Committee Issues Unprecedented News Release Confirming It Was Right To Ignore the Canadian Heritage Committee Study (June 19, 2019)
  • Process Failure: Why the Copyright Review Was Right To Ignore the Canadian Heritage Committee Study, Part One (June 18, 2019)
  • Fixing Fair Dealing for the Digital Age: What Lies Behind the Copyright Review's Most Important Recommendation (June 5, 2019)
• Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt University
  • The Machine as Author, 105 Iowa L. Rev. (2019)
  • Is There a "Middle Way" in International Intellectual Property?, 47 Int'l Rev. Indus. Prop. & Copyright L. (2016) 
  • The Three-Step Test Revisited: How to Use the Test's Flexibility in National Copyright Law, 29 Am. Int'l L. Rev. (2014) (with Christophe Geiger & Martin Senftleben)
• Rebecca Giblin, Monash University 
  • A New Copyright Bargain? Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Authors Paid, 41 Colum. J.L. & Arts 369 (2018)
  • Fat Horses and Starving Sparrows: On Bullshit in Copyright Debates, Overland 33 (2018)
  • What if We Could Reimagine Copyright? (Australia National University Press, 2017) (with Kimberlee Weatherall)
• Lucie Guibault, Dalhousie University 
  • Extended Collective Licensing for the use of Out-of-Commerce Works in Europe: A Matter of Legitimacy Vis-á-Vis Rights Holders, 49 Int'l Rev. Indus. Prop. & Copyright L. (2018) (with Simone Schroff)
  • Intellectual Property and Culture, in Introduction to Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management (Stathis Arapostathis & Graham Dutfield eds., 2018)
  • Is Europe Falling Behind in Data Mining? Copyright's Impact on Data Mining in Academic Research (2017) (with Christian Handke & Joan-Josep Vallbé)
• Gwen Hinze, U.C. Berkley
  • Solving the Orphan Works Problem for the United States, 37 Colum. J.L. & Arts (2013) (with David R. Hansen, Kathryn Hashimoto, Pamela Samuelson, & Jennifer M. Urban)
  • The Fair Use Doctrine in the United States - A Response to the Kernochan Report (Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission, 2013) (with Peter A. Jaszi & Matthew Sag)
• Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam
  • Copyright Reconstructed: Rethinking Copyright's Economic Rights in a Time of Highly Dynamic Technological and Economic Change ????? (June 25, 2018)
  • The "Data Producer's Right": Unwelcome Guest in the House of IP (Aug. 25, 2017)
  • The European Commission's Public Consultation on the Role of Publishers in the Copyright Value Chain: A Response by the European Copyright Society, 38 Euro. Intell. Prop. Rev. 591 (2016)
• Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law
  • Evaluating the Benefits of Fair Use: A Response to the PWC Report on the Costs and Benefits of 'Fair Use' (Submission to the Australia Productivity Commission, 2016) (with Michael W. Carroll, Sean Flynn, Ariel Katz, Mike Palmedo, Kimberlee G. Weatherall)
• Ariel Katz, University of Toronto
  • Statutory Review of the Copyright Act: My Testimony Before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (Dec. 6, 2018)
  • Statutory Review of the Copyright Act: My Testimony Before the House of Commons INDU Committee (Dec. 5, 2018)
  • No Time for Tinkering: On Intellectual Property and NAFTA (Aug. 30, 2018)
• Dick Kawooya, University of South Carolina
  • Does Africa's LIS Education Address New Forms of Digital Content and Related Right? 66 Libri 137 (2016)
  • An Examination of Education and Research Institutional Policies on Copyright and Access to e-Resources in Uganda (IPF Policy Paper, 2015)
  • Cultural Heritage Informatics and Intellectual Property Rights, Ann. Rev. of Cultural Heritage Informatics (2015)
• Howard Knopf, Macera & Jarzyna, LLP
  • The Canadian House of Commons Copyright "Shifting Paradigms" Report - Let's Just Call it the "Values Gap" Report (May 15, 2019)
  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong With the Government's Proposed Regulations re Time Limits at Canada's Copyright Board? (April 29, 2019)
  • The Copyright Board's "New Leaf"? Not So Much and Not at All (April 29, 2019)
• Kaya Köklü, TRIGGES Rechtsanwälte
  • Individual Licensing of Copyrighted Works, in Renumeration of Copyright Owners (R. Hilty & KC. Liu eds., 2017)
  • Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright in the Digital Age. Four Cornerstones for a Future-Proof Legal Framework in the EU, in New Developments in EU and International Copyright Law (Irini A. Stamatoudi ed., 2016) (with Reto M. Hilty)
  • Access and Use: Open vs. Proprietary Worlds (Max Planck Inst. for Innovation and Competition Research Paper, 2014) (with Reto M. Hilty)
• Pedro Mizukami, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School
  • Brazil: The Copy Shop and the Cloud, in Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (Joe Karaganis ed., 2018) (with Jhessica Reia)
  • Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Approves Marco Civil Bill (Mar. 25, 2014)
  • The Privatization of Copyright Enforcement: The Brazilian Context (Mar. 4, 2014)
• Caroline Ncube, University of Cape Town
  • Monkey Selfie and Authorship in Copyright Law: The Nigerian and South African Perspectives, 21 Potchefstroom Electronic L.J. (2018) (with Desmond O Oriakhogba)
  • Evolution of Africa's Intellectual Property Treaty Ratification Landscape, Afr. J. Info. & Comm. (2018)
  • The Creative Industry and South African Intellectual Property Law, 11 L. & Dev. Rev. (2018)  
• Sylvie Nerrison, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
  • Has Collective Management of Copyright Run Its Course? Not So Fast, Int'l Rev. Intell. 46 Prop. & Competition L. 505 (2015)
  • Last Year at Marienbad: The ECJ OSA Decision: Milestones on the Way to a European Law of Copyright and of its Management, 37 Euro. Intell. Prop. Rev. 399 (2015)
• Pranesh Prakash, Centre for Internet and Society
  • The New Guidelines for Computers Related Inventions Are a Big Win for Foss in India! (Mar. 9, 2016) 
• Alan Rocha de Souza, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 
  • The Marrakesh Treaty Ratification in Brazil: Immediate Effects (2018) (with Alexandre De Serpa Pinto Fairbanks)
  • Copyrights in the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (2016) (with Luca Shirru)
  • Which "Brazil" Will Chair the Marrakesh Treaty Assembly? (Oct. 16, 2016)
• Henning Ruse-Khan, University of Cambridge 
  • From TRIPS to FTAs and Back: Re-Conceptualizing the Role of a Multilateral IP Framework in a TRIPS-Plus World (University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 3, 2018)
  • Challenging Compliance with International Intellectual Property Norms in Investor-State Dispute Settlement, 19 J. Int'l Econ. L. 241 (2016)
  • The Protection of Intellectual Property in International Law, 19 J. Int'l Econ. L. 87 (2016) 
• Matthew Sag, Loyola University Chicago
  • The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning, 66 J. Copyright Soc'y USA (2019)
  • Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyrights Trolling, 103 Iowa L. Rev. 571 (2018)
  • Internet Safe Harbors and the Transformation of Copyright Law, 93 Notre Dame L. Rev. 499 (2017)
• Pamela Samuelson, U.C. Berkley 
  • Is the U.S. Fair Use Doctrine Compatible with Berne and TRIPS Obligations? (U.C. Berkley Public Law Research Paper, 2018) (with Kathryn Hashimoto)
  • Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: Refining the Tests for Software Copyright Infringement, 31 Berkley Tech. L.J. (2017)
  • Strategies for Discerning the Boundaries of Copyright and Patent Protections, 92 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1493 (2017)
• Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam
  • The Recommendation on Measures to Safeguard Fundamental Rights on the Open Internet in the Framework of the EU Copyright Reform, 40 Euro. Intell. Prop. Rev. 149 (2018) (with Christina Angelopoulos, Giancarlo Frosio, Valentina Moscon, Miguel Peguera, and Ole-Andreas Rognstad)
  • Copyright, Creators and Society's Need for Autonomous Art - The Blessing and Curse of Monetary Incentives, in What If We Could Reimagine Copyright? (R. Giblin & K. Weatherall eds., 2017)
  • Impacts of Competition Law: Monolithic Copyright, Market Power and Market Definition, in Renumeration of Copyright Owners (Reto M. Hilty & KC. Liu eds., 2017)
• Jennifer Urban, U.C. Berkley
  • Takedown in Two Worlds: An Empirical Analysis, 64 J. Copyright Soc'y 483 (2018) (with Joe Karaganis & Brianna Schofield)
  • Notice and Takedown: Online Service Provider and Rightsholder Accounts of Everyday Practice, 64 J. Copyright Soc'y 371 (2018) (with Joe Karaganis & Brianna Schofield)
  • Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice (UC Berkley Public law Research Paper No. 2755628, 2016) (with Joe Karaganis & Brianna Schofield)
• Stef van Gompel, University of Amsterdam
  • The Copyright Directive: Misinformation and Independent Enquiry (2018) (with C.J. Angelopoulos, L. Bently, M. Husovec, M. Kretschmer, Martin Senftleben, and S. Stalla-Bourdillon)
  • The Proposed Publisher's Right in Press Publications: An Evidential Mistake, in Better Regulation for Copyright: Academics Meet Policy Makers (J. Reda ed., 2017)
• Kimberlee Weatherall, University of Sydney 
  • What Can 100,000 Books Tell Us About the International Public Library e-lending Landscape? (Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 19/21, 2019)
  • Available - But Not Accessible? Investigating Publisher e-Lending Licensing Practices (Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 19/20, 2019) 
  • Author-Centered Copyright Enforcement?, 41 Colum. J.L. & Arts 545 (2018)
• Peter K. Yu, Texas A&M University 
  • State-to-State and Investor-State Copyright Dispute Settlement (Texas A&M University School of Law Research Paper No. 19-16, 2019)
  • China, 'Belt and Road' and Intellectual Property Cooperation, 14 Global Trade & Customs J. (2019)
  • Data Exclusivities and the Limits to TRIPS Harmonization, 46 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. (2019)

Further Resources/Analysis

• Smartcopying. Guide for educators prepared by the Australian government’s Copyright Advisory Group
• ReCreateZA.org. South African civil society group comprised of filmmakers, writers and other creators.
• Review of TPM provisions most protective of user rights
• Global Fair Use and Fair Dealing Decisions
• Fair use and the U.S. Library Experience
• Korean Fair Use and the Three Step Test
• Public Statement on the U.S. Proposal for a Limitations and Exceptions Clause in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright in Israel