Progetti di ricerca
The ILEO is currently involved in the following projects:
- Copyright and Digital Constitutionalism: What Regulatory Framework for Ethical Innovation in the EU?
This research project intends to map the existing fundamental rights relevant for creativity in the EU with the purpose to lay a constitutional foundation for a balanced and ethical legal framework for copyright law. More importantly, it aims at providing arguments for changes to current copyright law with a view to better serve the objective of sustainable development and research in Europe. A significant part of the research project will also explore a new regulatory approach for copyright in the digital environment, looking at the emergence of new independent institutional actors to safeguard fundamental rights online and to secure that the legal framework for innovation respects principle of sustainability.
- The interface between intellectual property law and cultural heritage
The research project investigates new dynamics relating to the intersection between intellectual property and cultural heritage as both have the potential to support and supplement the improvement of the knowledge and dissemination of culture and history. There is however a need for further development and clarification of the legal framework for cultural heritage and its sustainable protection to secure the advancement of a vibrant creative environment, in particular to avoid undue misappropriations of element of the public domain.
- Intellectual property law and sustainable development
Can the Intellectual Property system be considered inherently sustainable? Is it fostering a sustainable innovation or rather discouraging it?
The research project aims at outlining the existing Intellectual Property regime in Europe and its role and implication in the society, investigating whether - and to what extent - the actual legal framework can be rethought to meet the needs of an ethical and sustainable economic development.
More particularly, it explores the interaction between Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainability, providing arguments to sustain the importance of (new) ecologically sustainable IP tools to better respond to the Sustainable Development Goals.