Professor Jonathan Griffiths has co-drafted an Opinion for the European Copyright Society
In certain circumstances, the right of access to public information may be frustrated by the exercise of intellectual property rights. The European Copyright Society (ECS) has recently published an Opinion on the Relationship between Rights of Access to Public Sector Information and Copyright Law.
The Opinion argues that the European Union should give further thought to the need for uniform laws excluding official documents from copyright protection and, more generally, should ensure that the law of copyright and related rights should not undermine transparency laws. Read:
Jonathan Griffiths, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London, has written widely on the relationship between information rights and intellectual property. He was a member of the drafting committee for the Opinion, alongside Mireille van Eechoud (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam), Martin Husovec (London School of Economics) and Caterina Sganga (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa).
The European Copyright Society (ECS) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law and policy. Its members are scholars and academics from various countries of Europe, seeking to articulate and promote their views of the overall public interest on all topics in the field of authors rights, neighbouring rights and related matters. The ECS is neither funded nor instructed by any particular stakeholders. Its Opinions represent the independent views of a majority of ECS members.