Maurizio Borghi

Law Lecturer

Qualifications

BA (Bocconi University, Milan)
PhD (Bocconi University, Milan)

Dr Borghi is currently on Research Leave.

Research Interests

Copyright law
Legal theory
Philosophy

Research Areas

Intellectual property
Internet law
Media law

Research Groups

IPIMRC Intellectual Property, Internet Media Research Centre

PhD Supervision

Intellectual Property Law

External Activities

COUNTER (Counterfeiting and Piracy Research) funded by the European Commission’s Framework 7 programme (2008-2010)

Editorial board of Ancilla Iuris

Editorial board of Primary Sources on Copyright, project founded by AHRC

Steering Committee of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)

Board of trustees of NEXA – Centre for Internet and Society, Politecnico di Torino

Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley (2005-2006)

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) BORGHI, M., Chasing copyright infringement in the streaming landscape, IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 42 (3) : 316- 343

(2011) Borghi, M., Copyright and truth, Theoretical Inquiries in Law 12 (1) : 1- 27 Download publication

(2011) Borghi, M. and Karapapa, S., Non-display uses of copyright works: Google Books and beyond, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 1 (1) : 21- 52 Download publication

(2007) Montagnani, ML. and Borghi, M., Positive copyright and open content licences: how to make a marriage work by empowering authors to disseminate their creations, International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) 12 (Winter 2007) : 244- 273 Download publication

(2005) Borghi, M., The public use of reason: A philosophical understanding of knowledge sharing, The International Journal of the Humanities 3 (4) : 179- 186

Conference Papers

(2011) BORGHI, M., Mass digitisation and the moral right of integrity, 4th International Conference on Information Law

(2010) BORGHI, M., MONTAGNANI, M. and NUCCIO, M., Online Distribution of Digital Goods: Empirical Evidence from Bottom‐Up Cluster Analysis, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies

(2010) BORGHI, M. and KARAPAPA, S., Invisible geographies: copyright and the unexplored land of non-display uses, Second Annual Workshop of ISHTIP

(2010) BORGHI, M., Copyright and Truth, Copyright Culture, Copyright History

(2009) BORGHI, M., MONTAGNANI, M. and GUPTA, I., Managing Intellectual Property in the Web 2.0. A Survey of the On-Line Distribution Systems, Mashing-up culture: the rise of user-generated content

(2008) Borghi, M., Copyright beyond the right to copy: Translations, adaptations and creative reworking in 19th century law, 8th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference

(2008) Borghi, M., Perpetual copyright: The Venetian experiment (1780-1789), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)

Book Chapters

(2012) BORGHI, M., Knowledge, information and values in the age of mass digitisation. In: De Gennaro, I. ed. Value. Sources and Readings on a Key Concept of the Globalized World. Leiden - Boston : Brill (5) : 415- 434

(2010) Borghi, M., A venetian experiment on perpetual copyright. In: Deazley, R., Kretschmer, M. and Bently, L. eds. Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright. Open Book Publishers

(2008) Montagnani, ML. and Borghi, M., Promises and pitfalls of the European copyright law harmonisation process. In: Ward, D. ed. The European Union and the Culture Industries: Regulation and the Public Interest. Ashgate 213- 240

(2007) Borghi, M., Owning form, sharing content: Natural-right copyright and digital environment. In: MacMillan, F. ed. . Edward Elgar Publishing (5)