I am a qualified lawyer in Italy and France, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) of the University of Bournemouth, and at the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe).

My research interests are focussed on Intellectual Property and New Technologies. I have published the findings of my research for example on the European Law Review, on the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, on the European Intellectual Property Review, and on the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.

I have also carried out studies commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the UK Special Advisory Board on Intellectual Property (SABIP), and the European Commission.

My core research is on digital right management, copyright exceptions, digital copyright, Orphan Works, and European copyright policies and governance (from a legal angle). I dream of approaching these issues both from a legal and technological perspective, because I am convinced that this is the only effective way to build rigorous evidence on this peculiar topic.

Research

My background is in Intellectual Property Law and New Technologies. After a PhD on Digital Rights Managements (DRM) and Copyright Exceptions, I have carried out some extremely interesting research on patents and biotechnologies (ethics and patentability of human biologic material). At the same time I have built an extensive publication record (four papers, one case comment) on DRM and copyright in the digital environment. Meanwhile, I have carried out several works on European and international policy on Intellectual Property, on commission of a number of public institutions (SABIP, IPO, the European Commission).

My research plans involve merging legal and technological techniques to find a balanced solution for the much-debated issue of DRM, with a view of applying this interdisciplinary methodology to all different platforms on which DRM is implemented (CDs, DVDs, videogames, the internet, the cloud, biometrics and technologies yet to be devised).

Current works in progress:

‘Is there a EU Copyright jurisprudence?: an empirical analysis of the ECJ case-law’ Forthcoming as CREATe Working Paper (create.ac.uk)

This paper uses content analysis techniques to explore whether a clear pattern can be identified in the creation of copyright jurisprudence by the European Court of Justice.

‘A Wii too stretched? The ECJ extends to game consoles the protection of DRM- on tough conditions’ Forthcoming, Eipr This paper comments the case C-355/12 - Nintendo v. PC Box. It questions the extension of the protection of TPMs implemented on gaming consoles;

‘Death and Resurrection of Copyright between Law and Technology’ Forthcoming, ICTL (June 2014) The paper reviews copyright philosophical, economic and social justification confronted by the dematerialization of creative outputs.

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