Giuseppe Mazziotti is Senior Legal Counsel at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Brussels and Fellow at the Berkman Center. He has published extensively in the fields of intellectual property law, competition law and information technology law. Giuseppe was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2004/2005) and at Columbia Law School, New York (2010/2011). From 2009 to 2011 he was Assistant Professor of intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). At the University of Copenhagen, Giuseppe worked on research projects funded by the European Commission (the MEDIADEM project on media policy-making processes in EU member states, and the LAPSI project on legal aspects of public sector information). He was also a member of the working group on Creative Commons (Italy) and worked as consultant for the SeLiLi (Servizio Licenze Libere) project, led by Nexa (Centre for Internet and Society) at Politecnico di Torino. He advised the European Commission (DG for Informatics), the European Parliament (DG for Internal Policies) and the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities on various projects concerning intellectual property law and information technology. Giuseppe is an attorney admitted to the Italian Bar (2004) and practiced law as an associate and a counsel with Nunziante Magrone in Rome. He holds a Law Degree cum laude from the University of Perugia, Italy (2001), as well as a Master of Research (2003) and a Ph.D. (2007) from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He is also an accomplished musician and holds a Master's degree in Clarinet Performance (1997) and Chamber Music (2003) from the Music Academy of Perugia (Conservatorio di musica di Perugia). Giuseppe worked for ten years (1994-2004) as principal clarinetist for the Perugia Symphony Orchestra and as critic for the Italian radio broadcaster RAI Radio 3.
Competition Law
New Licensing Models for Online Music Services in the European Union: From Collective to Customized Management, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 11-269 (2011)
In the European Union online music services and music stores (e.g., LastFm, Spotify, iTunes) have...
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
Copyright and Educational Uses: the Unbearable Case of Italian Law from a European and Comparative Perspective, EUI Working Paper (LAW) (2011)
New Licensing Models for Online Music Services in the European Union: From Collective to Customized Management, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 11-269 (2011)
In the European Union online music services and music stores (e.g., LastFm, Spotify, iTunes) have...
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...