On Wednesday, June 8, 2016, the Via Parenzo campus hosted a conference on the effects of Directive 2014/26/EU on the Italian and Pan-European markets, organized in collaboration by the LUISS School of Law and Studio Dike Legal, focusing on collective copyright management.
Professor Gustavo Olivieri, LUISS Professor and Director of the School of Law master’s program in Competition and Innovation Law, coordinated the first talks of the day from experts on institutional systems of copyright management systems in Italy and Great Britain. “Collective copyright management is currently an important theme,” says Professor Olivieri. “While the Italian government has announced a number of parliamentary initiatives, today there are several models to compare. The Italian system is concentrated on the SIAE’s legal monopoly while the British model is based on alternative private management systems that also operate beyond national borders. The comparison with England is just one example; in the EU there is no single winning model and each country chooses one that is the most efficient.”
The conference covers both themes of the School of Law’s master’s program, touching on both competition law as well as innovation rights, intellectual property and industrial property. “Collective copyright management is central to innovation rights. On one hand it presents profiles linked to collective copyright management and intellectual property, on the other, from the moment that it also takes competition into account, it proposes questions on competition law and antitrust. In Italy, for example, a law from 1942 awards collective copyright protection to the SIAE, while rights connected to artists, performers and agents have a free competition system.”
Graduates and professionals who work in the intellectual property and competition sector can register for the master’s program by June 30, 2016. In addition to theoretical and practical training, internships with public and private partners, the program offers pays close attention to communication and digital skills. The digital world introduced clear changes to collective management of rights,” concludes Professor Olivieri. “On the international level, communication techniques and digital management of information and data are changing the way we do business and the market, offering alternative services and a good market. The goal of the program is to accept these changes, discuss them and analyze them with a group of professors and international students.”