‘Copyright and Disability’, Guest Lecture by Dr Giuseppe Mazziotti

Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 16:00 to 18:00
Tutorial Room 8, John Hume Building, North Campus

On 31 March 2016, Dr Giuseppe Mazziotti will give a guest lecture on ‘Copyright and Disability’ within the Department of Law’s 'International and European Disability Law' module. 

Dr Mazziotti is an Italian academic and legal advisor specialising in intellectual property law, media law, antitrust law, and information technology law. He has been an Assistant Professor of intellectual property law at Trinity College Dublin since October 2014. From 2009 to 2012 he held the same position at the University of Copenhagen, where he also worked as leader of research projects funded by the EU Commission on EU media policy and on legal aspects of public sector information. Giuseppe has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2004/2005) and at Columbia Law School, New York (2010/2011), and has also been a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard (2011/2012) and at the Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (2015).

He is currently an Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, where he co-managed the CEPS Digital Forum from August 2012 until December 2013. During his career, Giuseppe advised IFPI (Representing the Recording Industry Worldwide), the European Commission (DG CONNECT), the European Parliament (DG for Internal Policies and the Parliamentary Research Service), the EU Intellectual Property Office, and the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities on various projects concerning intellectual property law and information technology. From December 2012, he has worked as independent consultant with his firm 'Mediartis', partnering with individual authors and performers, associations of intellectual property right-holders, start-ups, Internet, telecoms, and media companies.

Giuseppe holds a summa cum laude Juris Doctor (JD) degree (2001) from the University of Perugia and a Master of Research (2003) and a PhD in Law (2007) from the European University Institute in Florence. 
 
This guest lecture will take place within the scope of the module of ‘International and European Disability Law’, however researchers, postgraduate students, and academics are most welcome to attend. To indicate your interest in attending and to receive further information on the seminar, please email: delia.ferri@mu.ie.

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