Ph. D. Intellectual Property Law
Kristoffer Schollin, Ph. D. intellectual property law, is post doc researcher and lecturer at the Department of Law and CIP – Center for Intellectual Property studies. Areas of expertise include Copyright law, Trademark law, Internet Domain Name regulation, Digital Rights Management and Open Source / Free Software dynamics. He lectures extensively to varied audiences using engineering, legal or marketing perspectives and endeavours to integrate the understanding of how constructing social phenomena is akin to the construction of technologies and how lawyers and technologists share a societal function.
With an LL M exam and a background in Philosophy and the IT industry, Kristoffer Schollin developed the Intellectual Capital Management Masters Programme at CIP, and won the Grand Pedagogic Prize of Gothenburg University in 2002. Going on to research in the field of law and technology he has written papers on Open Source management and the future techno-legal platforms of online music distribution.
Currently working on a project focusing on the Movie industry and cultural diversity in a digitalized world.
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Areas of Lecturing
Copyrights in the digital age
Digital rights management systems
Trademark regulation in Sweden
Domain names regulation globally and in Sweden
Open Source software business models
Publications
Digital Rights Management – the New Copyright.
As technologies that enable or disable the behaviour of citizens, consumers and corporations, Digital Platforms are also subject themselves to legal regulation. Particularly in the field of copyright we find this fascinating interplay between Law and Technology. Jure förlag 2008.
Virtual Copyright
(Swedish) Examining the changing foundations for the laws of copyright and the industry’s response Digital Rights Management systems, this paper outlines the future for managing right in the music and movie industry and the technological protection measures regulation in the European Copyright Directive. Juridisk Tidskrift nr 1 2004-2005.
Legal Protection for Online Music Rights Management
(English) Examining the limits of digital rights management in the new legal music platforms on the Internet. Paper and presentation at CLA First International Asian Conference, 1-2 Feb 2005.
Open Source Management
(English) Exploring the similarities between the situation facing software engineers and lawyers as reluctant partakers in the construction of social structures. Proceedings of the First International Mobile IPR Workshop: Rights Management of Information Products on the Mobile Internet", HIIT Publications 2003-2, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, 2003. (Pitkänenen, O., ed.)
Projects in Academia
Developing and managing CIP – the Center for Intellectual Property studies, a multi-disciplinary centre between the Gothenburg school of commercial law and Chalmers university of technology.
Conducting research at the Department of Law, at Gothenburg university.
Developing new educational lab environments where the strengths of law-students together with engineering-students are combined in role-playing scenarios.
Further developing the computer-simulation environments used in the award-winning Masters program ICM – Intellectual Capital Management.
Conferences and Seminars with Contributions
CIP Forum 2007: Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship, Göteborg May 20-23, 2006. (Seminar host)
The Future of the Movie industry in an Online Era, Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg Jan 2006. (Seminar host, panel chair.)
CLA – Computer Law Associates First International Asian Conference, Bangalore 1-2 Feb 2005. (Paper presented.)
CIP Forum 2005: Managing Intellectual Property as Core Business, Göteborg May 22-25, 2005. (Workshop host.)
Virtual copyright, seminar at Gothenburg University, Göteborg Sept 2004. (Paper presented.)
Mobile IPR Workshop, Helsinki Sept 2003. (Paper presented.)
CIP Forum 2003: Managing the Intellectual Value Chain, Göteborg, 2003. (Seminar host.)
New Approaches to the Study of Markets, Networks, and Institutions, Stanford 2002. (Paper presented.)
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