THE READERS' VIEW

My textbook with Luke McDonagh was  nominated for IPKAT IP Book of the year (2019). The book is innovative in that every chapter opens with a problem question which encourages students to engage with each topic through relevant, real-world issues and gain insight into how the law interacts with everyday life and business.

THE TOM KABINET CASE

My work on the copyright exhaustion principle (published in: Karapapa, S. (2014) Reconstructing copyright exhaustion in the online world, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2014(4), pp. 304-322) was cited in the Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar in Case C‑263/18, Nederlands Uitgeversverbond, Groep Algemene Uitgevers v Tom Kabinet Internet BV, Tom Kabinet Holding BV, Tom Kabinet Uitgeverij BV, ECLI:EU:C:2019:697, [62].

PHD SUCCESS

My doctoral student, Zoi Krokida, was awarded her PhD on May 2020 without receiving corrections. Her thesis addresses the liability of internet service providers in the light of the e-Commerce and DSM Directives. Dr Krokida is currently a lecturer in DMU.

DOES NEW TECHNOLOGY REQUIRE NEW LAWS?

How should innovation and creativity be regulated? How can we preserve a rigorous public domain, whilst ensuring that intellectual property owners will be appropriately rewarded for their creative and innovative ideas? Does new technology require new laws? These are some of the questions that Professor Stavroula Karapapa addresses in her research and her classes on Intellectual Property Law.