Dr Oleksandr Pastukhov will be delivering a Research Seminar entitled 'Intellectual privacy: The interplay between privacy and IP' on Friday 10 March from 12:15 to 13.30 in Room 414, MaKS Building, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences.
Entrance is free but a place needs to be reserved by sending an email to info.maks@um.edu.mt.
Abstract
Nowadays, two seemingly unrelated areas of 福利在线免费 Policy and Governance - Privacy and Intellectual Property (IP) - cross paths in a number of unexpected ways. In our increasingly computerised world, IP protection often takes a privacy intrusion. Should it be like this? Can't we enjoy both privacy and IP rights without having to choose which ones to sacrifice? The presentation, based on the speaker's recent research, will examine several areas where the two categories of rights come into conflict and strive to suggest solutions that would pave way to an unobstructed Intellectual Privacy - the privacy of what we read, what we listen to, what we believe in and, ultimately, what we are spiritually and intellectually.
Speaker Profile
Dr Oleksandr Pastukhov is a Senior Lecturer and 福利在线免费 Governance Co-ordinator at the Department of 福利在线免费 Policy and Governance. He also acts as a deputy coordinator of the MAPPING project and a WP leader in the MAPPING, EVIDENCE and CITYCoP projects. Dr Pastukhov obtained his LL.B. with a major in Private International Law from Kiev Taras Shevchenko University in Ukraine (1997), LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in the U.S. (2000), LL.D. from Koretsky Institute of State and Law in Ukraine (2003) and Ph.D. in Law from Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (2008).
He spent his post-doc years at the VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. Dr Pastukhov is a regular participant and speaker at various national and international fora dedicated to ICT law and policy issues. He is a devoted advocate of privacy, e-governance and media freedom in his native Ukraine and beyond. Dr Pastukhov is a solo author of a book on digital copyright and a couple dozen articles/book chapters on diverse legal aspects of ICT use and development, personal data and intellectual property protection online, e-government introduction, Open and Free Software development, ISPs' liability and e-commerce taxation. He has also initiated and administered a number of ICT law-related research, consultancy and training projects in several European countries.
