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Associate Professor; Director of the Law Tripos; Fellow and Director of Studies (Newnham College)
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CV / Biography
Dr Christina Angelopoulos is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, where she specialises in Intellectual Property Law.
She is a member of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) and joint managing editor of the Kluwer Copyright Blog. From October 2022, she is a regular visiting lecturer and researcher at the National Kapodistian University of Athens. Alongside her academic output, Christina has conducted work for the European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and various NGOs active in the area of copyright.
Her research interests lie in copyright law. Specifically, she is currently interested in the scope of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, open content licensing, open science, the European harmonisation of copyright law, the term of protection of copyright and related rights, the intersection between copyright and tort law, as well as the intersection between intellectual property rights and human/fundamental rights in information society. Her most recent work includes a comprehensive comparative analysis of the national implementations of Articles 15 and 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Single Digital Market (final version published in December 2023) covering 25 EU Member States (commissioned by the Coalition for Creativity) and an examination of the impact of the EU rules on copyright and related rights on the accessibility and reuse of scientific publications (commissioned by the European Commission in the context of its work on the European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda).
Christina wrote her PhD thesis on the European harmonisation of the liability of online intermediaries for the copyright infringements of third parties at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. In November 2016, Christina's thesis was published as part of the Information Law Series of Kluwer Law International under the title “European Intermediary Liability in Copyright: A Tort-Based Analysis”. In April 2017, the thesis won Proxime Accessit in the 2016 European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) Award for Outstanding Doctoral Theses in European Law. In August 2017, the book was shortlisted for the Peter Birks Book Prize 2017, offered by the Society of Legal Scholars for outstanding published books by scholars in their early careers.
Before joining Cambridge, Christina worked as an Early Career Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) of the University of London, where she helped deliver the activities of the Information Law and Policy Centre. Prior to that, Christina was based for 8 years at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. At IViR, in addition to her PhD, she worked on a variety of projects relevant to copyright and media law. In particular, as part of the EuropeanaConnect project, she performed and coordinated the legal research behind the creation of IViR and NL Kennisland's online Public Domain Calculators. In the context of a research project into open content licensing, Christina also worked on the compatibility of the Creative Commons licensing suite with the related rights of performers and phonogram producers. From 2008 to 2011, she acted as IViR editor for IRIS, the monthly newsletter on audiovisual law published by the European Audiovisual Observatory.
Publications
Books
Creative Expression (with L Verbauwhede Koglin and G Singh Jaiya) (WIPO, 2023) 2nd Edition
European Intermediary Liability in Copyright: A Tort-Based Analysis (Kluwer Law International, 2016)
Open Content Licensing: From Theory to Practice (with L. Guibault) (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2011)
Articles
"Το ΔΕΕ και τα αυτόματα φίλτρα περιεχομένου: αλλαγή πλεύσης ή σταθερή πορεία;" (translation: "The CJEU and automatic content filtering: a change of direction or holding steady?)" (2021) 14(3) De Jure Journal 219
"De reikwijdte van artikel 17 DSM richtlijn in het licht van het verbod op algemene toezichtverplichtingen: een Odyssee" (translation: "The scope of Article 17 DSM Directive in light of the prohibition on general monitoring obligations: an Odyssey)" (2021) 3 Auteursrecht, pp. 120-142
"Fixing Copyright Reform: A Better Solution to Online Infringement" (2019) 10(2) JIPITEC 147-173
"Recommendation on Measures to Safeguard Fundamental Rights and the Open Internet in the Framework of the EU Copyright Reform" (2018) 40(3) European Intellectual Property Review 149-163
"An academic perspective on the copyright reform" (2017) 33(1) C.L.S. Rev 3-13.
"Notice-and-Fair-Balance: How to Reach a Compromise between Fundamental Rights in European Intermediary Liability" (2016) 8(2) Journal of Media Law, p. 266-309
"Sketching the Outline of a Ghost: the Fair Balance between Copyright and Fundamental Rights in Intermediary Liability" (2015) 17(6) Info - The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media, p. 72-96.
"Are Blocking Injunctions against ISPs Allowed in Europe? Copyright Enforcement in the Post-Telekabel EU Legal Landscape" (2014) 10 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, p. 812-821. Republished in GRUR International, Vol. 11, p. 1089-1096.
"Beyond the Safe Harbours: Harmonising Substantive Intermediary Liability for Copyright Infringement in Europe" (2013) 3 Intellectual Property Quarterly, p. 253-274.
"The Myth of European Term Harmonisation: 27 Public Domains for the 27 Member States" (2012) 5 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), p. 567-594.
"Determining the Term of Protection for Films: When Does a Film Fall into the Public Domain in Europe?" IRIS plus 2012-2, European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg 2012, p. 7-21.
"Amended Directive Extends the Term of Protection for Performers and Sound Recordings" (2011) 11 GRUR International, p. 987-989.
"Product Placement in European Audiovisual Productions" IRIS plus 2010-3, European Audiovisual Observatory, p. 1-21.
"Filtering the Internet for Copyrighted Content in Europe" IRIS plus 2009-4, European Audiovisual Observatory, p. 1-12.
"Freedom of Expression and Copyright: the Double Balancing Act" (2008) 3 Intellectual Property Quarterly, p. 328-353.
Book Chapters
"Criticism and review & Institutional / preservation copying" in P Torremans, I Stamatoudi, P Yu & BJ Jütte (ed(s)), Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law, 2025)
"Article 66ST" in I Stamatoudi (ed(s)), Ν 2121/1993 – Ερμηνεία κατ΄άρθρο (translation: “Law 2121/1993 – Article by article interpretation”) (Nomiki Bibliothiki), forthcoming
"How Football Changed Copyright Law: Public Performance, Communication to the Public and the Free Public Showing of Broadcast Films" in M Senftleben et al (ed(s)), Intellectual Property and Sports: Essays in Honour of P. Bernt Hugenholtz (Kluwer Law International, 2021), pp. 319-331
"Primary and Accessory Liability in EU Copyright Law" in E. Rosati (ed(s)), The Routledge Handbook of European Copyright Law (Routledge, 2021), pp. 193-214
"Harmonising Intermediary Copyright Liability in the EU: A Summary" in G. Frosio (ed(s)), The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 315-334
"European Copyright and Human Rights in the Digital Sphere" in M. Susi (ed.) (ed(s)), Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law: A Research Companion (Routledge, 2019)
"The Term Directive and the Term Extension Directive" in B. Hugenholtz and T. Dreier (ed(s)), Concise European Copyright Law (Kluwer Law International, 2016)
"Chapter IX - Creative Commons and Related Rights in Sound Recordings: Are the Two Systems Compatible?" in C. Angelopoulos and L. Guibault (ed(s)), Open Content Licensing: From Theory to Practice (Amsterdam University Press , 2011)
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