Seminar by Giuseppe Mazziotti

New Licensing Models for Online Music Services in the European Union: From Collective to Customized Management

Dr. Giuseppe Mazziotti has recently published an article in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, Vol. 34, Fall 2011, in which he shows how licensing models for online music services in Europe have changed in response to the European Commission's attempt to facilitate the creation of pan-European digital markets. Dr Mazziotti's analysis shows how this change consisted of a shift from collective management of the global music repertoire, on a strictly country-by-country basis, to EU-wide licensing models in which the major music publishers establish their specialized agents or assign their single music repertoires to the biggest collecting societies, on an exclusive basis. The seminar will focus on the impact of this change on cultural diversity and on its implications for the businesses of big and small right-holders, collective rights managers and commercial users of digital music (e.g. Apple's iTunes).

Giuseppe Mazziotti is Assistant Professor of intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He has published extensively in the fields of intellectual property law, competition law and information technology law. Giuseppe Mazziotti was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2004/2005) and at Columbia Law School, New York (2010/2011). He holds a Law Degree cum laude from the University of Perugia, Italy (2001), as well as a Master of Research (2003) and a PhD in Law (2007) from the European University Institute, Florence.

Registration:

Write Trine Buch at: tb.jur@cbs.dk

No later than 3. November

Arranged by:

The Law Department