La ‘riposte graduée’: est-ce la bonne réponse? Une conférence pour faire le point

Le 14 décembre 2010, les Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, l’Université Libre de Bruxelles et l’Université de Liège organisent conjointement une …

A paperback version of “Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice” (Palgrave, Nov. 2010)

The book “Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice” edited by Axel Gosseries, Alain Marciano and myself is available in …

Un livre devenu libre par emprunt? Le suites du plagiat de M. Houellebecq, prix Goncourt pour “La carte et le territoire”

L’affaire du plagiat de M. Houellebecq, le prix Goncourt 2010, connaît des rebondissements inattendus. En septembre dernier, un journaliste …

Towards an ethical music downloading?

  In expressing your opinion about digital piracy (in reaction to my post of last week), many of you …

Legal responses to online piracy

Yesterday (November 26, 2010), the New York Times published two short articles concerning online piracy of digital goods. The …

An ‘uncommon’ riddle

Here is just a riddle, which I ask you to solve. What do the following stories have in common? …

What to think of ‘patent trolls’?

Early october this year, Apple was condemned by a US court to pay $625.5 million damages to a small …

Markets for technology: big hopes and … big difficulties

    (Original publication: October 2010; updated in November 2012) It is widely agreed that one of the main …

Harry Potter is back on the copyright front. Do you want to prepare a survey of cases around the world?

The IPKat, the famous IP blog founded by the veteran blogger Jeremy Philips, today reports about a case involving Willy …

Bokhylla.no, the Norwegian bookshelf: a model?

On September 30, EFTA (by the way, do you remember the countries which are still members of the European …