Commerce, Innovation and Intellectual Property

Technology continues to challenge consumer rights, intellectual property, and innovation policy. And emerging forms of commerce, based on new financial technologies—like the crypto-currency Bitcoin—are revolutionizing business. Our research explores the law, policy, and ethical dimensions of these changes.

• E-Commerce and Consumer Protection
• Intellectual Property
• FinTech and Crypto-Currencies
• Smart Cities

People

• Lucie Guibault
• Michael Deturbide
• David Fraser
• Jon Penney

Sample Works

• Guibault, L., Intellectual Property and Culture (June 19, 2018). in A. Kamperman-Sanders, A. Ramalho, C. Mulder, Anke Moerland - Dahrendorf (eds.), Introduction to Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management, Univ. Maastricht, 2018 Forthcoming. 
• Guibault, L. & Schroff, S. Extended Collective Licensing for the Use of Out-of-Commerce Works in Europe: A Matter of Legitimacy Vis-à-Vis Rights Holders, IIC (2018) 49: 916. 
• Guibault, L., Individual Licensing Models and Consumer Protection (January 11, 2016). Chapter 13. Individual Licensing Models and Consumer Protection,’ in R.M. Hilty and K.-C. Liu (eds.), Exploring Sensible Ways for Paying Copyright Owners?, Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer, 2016.
• Handke, Christian and Guibault, Lucie and Vallbé, Joan-Josep, Is Europe Falling Behind in Data Mining? Copyright's Impact on Data Mining in Academic Research (June 7, 2015). 
• Wiebe, Andreas and Guibault, L. (eds.), Safe to Be Open: Study on the Protection of Research Data and Recommendations for Access and Usage, University of Göttingen Press, (2013).