Dr. Giuseppe Mazziotti (Cosenza, 1976) holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence cum laude
degree at the University of Perugia, as well as a Master of Research and a Ph.D. in law
from the European University Institute (Florence). He has published extensively in the
fields of EU copyright law, competition law and information technology law, and has
conducted research as Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He
also holds master's degrees in Clarinet Performance and Chamber Music from the
Perugia Music Academy.
Giuseppe is a member of the working group of Creative Commons-Italy and has worked as
consultant for the SeLiLi (Servizio Licenze Libere) project, led by the Politecnico di
Torino. He has also advised the European Commission (Directorate-General for
Informatics), the European Parliament (Directorate-General for Internal Policies) and the
Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities in various projects concerning
intellectual property law ("European Union Public Licence"; "Collecting
Societies and Cultural Diversity in the Music Sector"; "Athena" and
"Europeana"). He has practiced law with Nunziante Magrone in Rome and was a
founder of the Musikethos.org project.
Giuseppe is assistant professor (intellectual property law) at the Faculty of Law of the
University of Copenhagen (Centre for Information and Innovation Law), where he also acts
as local team leader of EU-funded research projects MEDIADEM ("European Media
Policies Revisited: Valuing and Reclaiming Free and Independent Media in Contemporary
Democratic Systems") and LAPSI (Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information).
Book
Competition Law
Did Apple’s refusal to license proprietary information enabling interoperability with its iPod music player constitute an abuse under Article 82 of the EC Treaty?, World Competition (2005)
This article concerns the decision taken in November 2004 by the French Competition Authority on...
EU Copyright Law
Collecting Societies and Cultural Diversity in the Music Sector (with Thomas Hoeren, Christine Altemark, Violaine Dehin, Maria-José Iglesias, Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Katharine Sarikakis, and Eleftherios Zacharias) (2009)
The study ‘Collecting Societies and Cultural Diversity in the Music Sector’ was commissioned by the...
Building digital commons through open access management of copyright-related rights, Paper presented at the Communia International Conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age - Louvain-La-Neuve, 30 June/1 July 2008 (2008)
Il diritto d'autore comunitario nel nuovo ambiente digitale, Ciberspazio e Diritto (2006)
This essay provides an introduction to and an analysis of the harmonisation of EU copyright...