Institut für Rechtsinformatik

A group of prominent European academics has released  an opinion on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The opinion identifies the most critical aspects of ACTA and invites European and national institutions to carefully consider the opinion before ratifying the Agreement or withholding consent.

The opinion was open for signatures until February 7, 2011. It was then submitted to the European Parliament and other relevant European and national institutions.

The text of the Opinion can be found here.



The opinion was coordinated by Prof. Dr. Axel Metzger
(metzger@iri.uni-hannover.de) and Ms. Rita Matulionyte,

Institute for Legal
Informatics, Leibniz University Hannover.

Drafting committee

Roberto D'Erme, Research Assistant, Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg

Christophe Geiger, Associate Professor, Director General and Director of theResearch Department, Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg

Henning Große Ruse-Khan, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich

Christian Heinze, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

Thomas Jaeger, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich

Rita Matulionyte (coord.), Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz University Hannover

Axel Metzger (coord.), Professor of Civil Law and Intellectual Property, Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz University Hannover

First signatories

Lionel Bently, Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge

 

Michael Blakeney, Professor of Law, University of Western Australia and Visiting Professor, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

Thomas Dreier, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Institute for Information and Economic Law, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe

Josef Drexl, Director of Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich

Mireille van Eechoud, Associate Professor at Institute for Information Law, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam

Nikolaus Forgo, Professor of Information Technology Law, Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz University Hannover

Jonathan Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London

Reto Hilty, Director of Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich

Thomas Hoeren, Professor and Head of the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM), University ofMünster

Bernt Hugenholtz, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Institute for Information Law, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam

Matthias Leistner, Professor of Civil, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, University of Bonn

Ansgar Ohly, Professor of Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law, University of Bayreuth

Miquel Peguera, Associate Professor of Commercial Law, Department of Law and Political Science, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona

 

Nikolaus Peifer, Professor and Director of the Institute for Media and Communications Law, University of Cologne

Alexander Peukert, Professor of Civil, Commercial and Intellectual Property Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

 

Haimo Schack, Professor of Civil, International Private and Copyright Law, Christian Albrecht University Kiel

Gerald Spindler, Professor of Civil, Business and Commercial Law, Comparative Law, Multimedia and Telecommunications Law, University of Göttingen

Martin R.F. Senftleben, Professor of Intellectual Property, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam

 

Malte Stieper, Professor of Civil Law, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, University of Halle.

 

Uma Suthersanen, Professor in International Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London

 

Guido Westkamp, Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London

Andreas Wiebe, Professor of Civil, Competition and Intellectual Property Law, Media and Information Law, University of Göttingen

Dan Wielsch, Professor of Civil Law and Legal Theory, University of Cologne

Signatories

Florian Schweitzer (European Parliament MEP Martin Ehrenhauser)

Harald Müller (Max Planck Institute of comparative public law and international law)

Daniel Lehmann

André Kasper (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Andre Dierker

Sven Dolderer

Julian Fürter

Sigurd Schneider

Dominik Boecker (Rechtsanwalt und Fachanwalt für Informationstechnologierecht)

Hanns-Jörg Rohwedder

Ernst Dieter Naber (Legal Consultant)

Martin Grellmann

Stephan Urbach (Piratenpartei Deutschland)

Dennis Heinemeyer (Institute for legal Informatics)

Hartmut Semken

Stefan Labesius (ifrOSS)

Jan Lindgren (Engineer from KTH)

Philipp Möller (Institut for Legal informatics)

Prof. Dr. L. Grosskopf LL.M.Eur.  (Certified Lawyer for Information Technology Law (IT-Law)
Certified Lawyer for Copyright and Media Law)

Arne Nordmeyer (Institute for legal Informatics)

Patrick Peiffer (Luxcommons asbl)

Jens Ahrens (Universität Mainz)

Richard Linde

Thomas Peronnet

Husovec Martin (European Information Society Institute)

Glyn Moody

William Roe (MIG)

Jacob Hallén (Open End AB)

Frank Borger (Richter am Landgericht Bayreuth)

Alexander Vogelsang

Vigdis Olden

Ahmed Bashir (Institute for Legal Informatics)

Benjamin Siggel

Gerd Rös

Markus Nolte (Software developer)

Benjamin Radke

Eveline Marsell

Julian Krause

Eugen Richter

Claus Tluk von Toschanowitz

Jonathan Stoklas (Institute for legal Informatics)

Peter Jaszi

Christopher Gebhard

Sylvia Kierkegaard (www.coreach-ipr.org)

Jesper Sahlen Raquette

Burkhard Müller

Sebastian Schräder

Sepp Wolf-Dieter

Alex Nurd

Nigel Cunningham (The University of Oxford)

Andreas Schneider

Razvan Sandu

Oscar Wagner

André Loconte (NURPA)

Martin Bahier

Jean-Philippe  Jacopin

Michel Bouissou

Ovidiu Constantin

Alfonso Fuca

Johannes Schemmel (University of Heidelberg)

Jean-Pierre Masse

Mikhail Valkov

Eric Müller (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics Heidelberg University)

Daniel Bruederle (Heidelberg University)

Simon Guichard

Dan Husmann de Oliveira (Kirchhoff Institut für Physik Heidelberg)

Lesouef Emmanuel

Ranjeet Kuruvilla

Peter Asemann (Software Developer)

Michael Rahe

Karsten Neumann Vorstandsmitglied DVD e.V.

Matthias Kinastowski

Oliver Breitwieser (Universität Heidelberg)

Daniel Dingeldey

Alexis Jurdant

Mircea Gherlea

Andreas Hartel

Steve Doulg

Vitali Karasenko

Joni Virtanen

Michael Seidlitz (Rechtsanwalt)

Felix Treguer ( Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Frank Stollar

Joni Nevalainen (Aalto University Finland)

Martina Pöser

Andreas Schmidt

Johannes Kolbe

Thorsten Fogelberg

Axel Krueger

Raymond Johansson

Daniel Binding

Eckhard Höffner

Thomas Halbeck

Markus Kastelitz

Ante Wessels (Analyst ACTA workgroup Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure)

Stephane Vanbellinghen

Thomas Frömer

Marco Ricolfi (Turin Law School)

Gustavo Ghidini  (UNIVERSITY OF MILAN ITALY)

Hartwig Gerhartinger (Institute for legal Informatics)

Despina Lambrou (Univ. of Cyprus)

Markus Schröder LL.M. (Rechtsanwalt)

Ray Corrigan (Open University)

Abbe Brown (University of Edinburgh)

Axel Arnbak (Bits of Freedom)

Dr. Till Jaeger (ifrOSS)

Stéphanie Lacour (CNRS CECOJI)

Lorena Jaume-Palasí  (Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich)

Thorsten Busch

Wiebe van der Worp (Vrijschrift.org Foundation)

Björn Betghe

Michael Hartung

Steven Maaß

Hartwig Thomas (Digitale Allmend)

Christophe Pires

Carlos Pires

Felix Scheder-Bieschin (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law)

Jason Harris (Concerned Citizen)

Seyavash Amini (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law)

Sven Schomacker

Benjamin Schuetze (Institute for legal Informatics)

Daniele Dionisio (Member, European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases)

Andreas Formiconi (University of Florence)

Jean-Henry Morin (University of Geneva, Institute of Services Science, Switzerland)

Howard Lane (GreenNet)

Andrej Savin (Copenhagen Business School)

Dr. Katarzyna Lasota Heller

Jan Werner (Senior Corporate Counsel)

Lucas Joly

Patricia Loughlan (The University of Sydney)

Catharina Maracke (Keio University)

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS)

Ulrich Hegge (Entrepreneur & Investor)

Martin Busch

Clem Carlos Schermann

Carmel Corcoran (UK Trade Mark Attorney)

Ylenia Perez (university of florence)

Angelo Zappalà

Mihail Kemanadjiev

Steffen Hartwig

Serena Turri

Richard Krakhofer

Thorsten Heermann (Rechtsanwalt)

Emilian-Stefan Gheorghe

Benjamin Farrand (European University Institute)

Dr. Kristina Janušauskaite, LL.M. IP (Lecturer, Vilnius University, Lithuania)

Felix Reinberger

Guenter Heinzle

Dennis Jlussi (Institute for Legal Informatics)

Jürgen Natmessnig-Wasner

Wolfgang Rottwinkel (Institute for Legal Informatics)

Peer Heinrich

Christoph Bruch (European Network for Copyright in Support of Education and Science)

 

 

last update: 04.02.2011, 18:59