School of Law

Dr Thomas Margoni

Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law (Law)

telephone: +44 (0) 141 330 4183
email: Thomas.Margoni@glasgow.ac.uk

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8551-1154

Biography

Dr Thomas Margoni is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law at the School of Law – CREATe Centre and convener of the LLM programme in Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy. His research interests concentrate on the relationship between law (especially IP) and new technologies with particular attention to the role of the Internet as a new medium to access, create and disseminate knowledge in the current information-based society. Recent examples of research projects include OpenMinTeD, the EU H2020 project for the development of an e-infrastructure for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in Europe where Thomas coordinates the legal working group (www.openminted.eu); OpenAireAdvance, the EU 2020 project to support Open Science in the EU; the role and liability of online intermediaries; copyright, design rights and 3D printing; the digitisation of cultural heritage; and the role of property rights in sports.

Before joining Glasgow University Thomas was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Stirling and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. He publishes and teaches in the field of Intellectual Property, Copyright, Internet, Information and Technology law and is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences. Thomas is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow and collaborates, usually in the form of commissioned studies, with EU and international institutions, including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM - EUIPO) and the Japanese Patent Office. He is a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a member of various initiatives connected with intellectual property, new technologies and digital rights.

Research interests

Intellectual Property
Internet Law
Information and technology Law
Open Access to Scientific Information and Open Science
Property rights in sports events
Legal Research Methodology

Grants

Dr. Thomas Margoni has been awarded the following grants and coordinates the following projects:

2018 - 2021
Title: OpenAireAdvance
Funding body: European Commission (H2020)
Role: WP leader
Amount awarded: €100,000

2018
Title: Choose the Right Rights, Use the Data Right
Funding body: JISC
Role: Co-PI
Amount awarded: £20,000

2016
Title: Supporting Open Access with Open Content Licences
Funding body: ESRC IAA
Role: PI
Amount awarded: £10,000

2015 - 2018
Funding body: European Commission (H2020)
Title: OpenMinTeD
Role: Legal Coordinator
Amount awarded: £102,255
www.openminted.eu

2013 - 2016
Funding body: European Commission (Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
Title: Intermediary liability
Role: PI
Amount awarded: €100,000

2012 - 2014
Funding Body: European Commission (DG Education and Sport)
Title: Study on Sports organisers' rights in the EU
Role: PI
Amount awarded: €240,000

Supervision

PhD students under supervision

Ally Farnhill - 'Owning public spaces: the copyright user and works of public architecture'

Jie Liu - 'Proposal for collective management reform on copyright and related rights in China: From the perspective of license models, technology and competition'

Daniel Pinheiro Astone - 'Public procurement and intellectual property rights as policy mechanisms: reciprocity on goals and outcomes'

Methinee Suwannakit - 'Protection of privacy and personal data in the digital age: the case study of individual media users'

Jiarong Zhang - 'Using digitization to fill the gaps in intellectual property protection of traditional cultural expressions - opportunities and challenges'

Teaching

Copyright in the Digital Environment (LLM)
CopyrightX: Glasgow (LLM)
Intellectual Property (Honours)
Internet Law (Honours)
Media Law (LLB)

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

Number of items: 42.

2018

Margoni, T. (2018) Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and EU copyright law: Who owns AI? Working Paper. CREATe, Glasgow.

Burrow, S. , Margoni, T. and McCutcheon, V. (2018) Information Guide: Choosing a Licence for Research Data. CREATe, University of Glasgow, 2018. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Burrow, S. , Margoni, T. and McCutcheon, V. (2018) Information Guide: FAQ: Using Research Data. CREATe, University of Glasgow, 2018. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Burrow, S. , Margoni, T. and McCutcheon, V. (2018) Information Guide: Introduction to Ownership of Rights in Research Data. CREATe, University of Glasgow, 2018. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Burrow, S. , Margoni, T. and McCutcheon, V. (2018) Information Guide: Making Research Data Available. CREATe, University of Glasgow, 2018. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Eckart de Castilho, R., Dore, G., Margoni, T. , Labropoulou, P. and Gurevych, I. (2018) A Legal Perspective on Training Models for Natural Language Processing. In: LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 7-12 May 2018, (Accepted for Publication)

Margoni, T. (2018) Design rights and 3D printing in the UK: Balancing innovation and creativity in a (dis)harmonised and fragmented legal framework. In: Mendis, D., Lemley, M. and Rimmer, M. (eds.) 3D Printing and Beyond: The Intellectual Property and Legal Implications Surrounding 3D Printing and Emerging Technologies. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: Cheltenham. (In Press)

Margoni, T. (2018) Digitising the public domain: Non original photographs in comparative EU copyright law. In: Fitzgerald, B. and Gilchrist, J. (eds.) Copyright, Property and the Social Contract: The Reconceptualisation of Copyright. Springer. (In Press)

2017

McCutcheon, V. , Burrows, S. and Margoni, T. (2017) Choose the Right Rights, Use the Data Right. Project Report. University of Glasgow and JISC.

Dusollier, S. and Margoni, T. (2017) Design ouvert = Open design. In: Cornu-Volatron, M., Orsi, F. and Rochfeld, J. (eds.) Dictionnaire des Biens Communs. Series: Quadrige: dictionnaires. Presses Universitaires de France: Paris. ISBN 9782130654117

2016

Margoni, T. (2016) The protection of sports events in the EU: Property, intellectual property, unfair competition and special forms of protection. IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 47(4), pp. 386-417. (doi:10.1007/s40319-016-0475-8)

Margoni, T. , Caso, R., Ducato, R., Guarda, P. and Moscon, V. (2016) Open access, open science, open society. In: Loizides, F. and Schmidt, B. (eds.) Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing : Players, Agents and Agendas. IOS Press: Amsterdam. ISBN 9781614996484

Margoni, T. and Peters, D. M. (2016) Creative Commons Licenses: empowering open access. Editorial Office News, 9(2),

de Castilho, R. E., Ananiadou, S., Margoni, T., Peters, W. and Piperidis, S. (Eds.) (2016) Cross-Platform Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Interoperability - Proceedings of the LREC2016 conference. European Language Resources Association.

Labropoulou, P., Piperidis, S. and Margoni, T. (2016) Legal Interoperability Issues in the Framework of the OpenMinTeD Project: A Methodological Overview. In: LREC 2016 Workshop: Cross-Platform Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Interoperability, Portorož, Slovenia, 23-28 May 2016,

Margoni, T. (2016) CC-PlusDesign.eu—or how to apply Creative Commons licences to 3D printed products in the light of the most recent developments of the european court of justice case law. In: van den Berg, B., van der Hof, S. and Kosta, E. (eds.) 3D Printing: Legal, Philosophical and Economic Dimensions. Series: Information technology and law series, 26 (26). T.M.C. Asser Press: The Hague, pp. 37-63. ISBN 9789462650954 (doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-096-1_3)

Margoni, T. (2016) The harmonisation of EU copyright law: The originality standard. In: Perry, M. (ed.) Global Governance of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century. Springer International Publishin: Switzerland, pp. 85-105. ISBN 9783319311760 (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31177-7_6)

2015

Guibault, L. and Margoni, T. (2015) Legal aspects of open access to publicly funded research. In: Enquires into intellectual property's economic impact. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, pp. 373-414.

Margoni, T. and Van, R. (2015) UK horserace betting right: at odds with EU law? European Intellectual Property Review, 37(8), pp. 479-483.

Margoni, T. (2015) CCPlusDesign.EU - or how to apply Creative Commons Licences to 3D printed products in the light of the most recent developments of the European Court of Justice case law. SSRN Electronic Journal, (doi:10.2139/ssrn.2611152)

Margoni, T. (2015) The digitisation of cultural heritage: originality, derivative works and (non) original photographs. Other. Institute for Information Law (IViR).

Angelopoulos, C., Brody, A., Hins, W., Hugenholtz, B., Leerssen, P., Margoni, T. , McGonagle, T., van Daalen, O. and van Hoboken, J. (2015) Study of Fundamental Rights Limitations for Online Enforcement through Self-Regulation. Other. Institute for Information Law (IViR).

2014

Margoni, T. (2014) The digitisation of cultural heritage originality, derivative works and (non) original photographs : Executive summary. SSRN Electronic Journal, (doi:10.2139/ssrn.2573137)

Van, R. and Margoni, T. (2014) Study on sports organisers’ rights in the European Union : Executive summary. Other. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Van Rompuy, B. and Margoni, T. (2014) Study on sports organisers' rights in the European Union : Final report. Other. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Keller, P., Margoni, T. , Rybicka, K. and Tarkowski, A. (2014) Re-use of public sector information in cultural heritage institutions. International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, 6(1), pp. 1-9. (doi:10.5033/ifosslr.v6i1.104)

2013

Dietrich, N., Guibault, L., Margoni, T. , Siewicz, K., Spindler, G. and Wiebe, A. (2013) Safe to Be Open: Study on the Protection of Research Data and Recommendations for Access and Usage. Universitätsverlag Göttingen: Göttingen. ISBN 9783863951474

Margoni, T. (2013) Not for designers: on the inadequacies of EU design law and how to fix it. Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, 4(3), pp. 224-248.

Margoni, T. (2013) Open design? 3D printing and open licenses. In: van den Berg, B., van der Hof, S. and Mair, C. (eds.) 3D Printing: Destiny, Dream or Doom? Leiden University Press.

Margoni, T. (2013) The roles of material transfer agreements in genetics databases and bio-banks. In: Pascuzzi, G., Izzo, U. and Macilotti, M. (eds.) Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks: Property, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and the Role of Technology. Springer: Berlin ; Heidelberg, pp. 231-249. ISBN 9783642331152 (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33116-9_13)

Margoni, T. and Perry, M. (2013) Deep pockets, packets, and harbours. Ohio State Law Journal, 74(6), pp. 1195-1216.

2012

Margoni, T. (2012) The “novelty” requirements for gene and genetically-modified organisms inventions and the potential benefits of a peer-to-patent system. IIP Bulletin, 21, 16.

Margoni, T. and Perry, M. (2012) Ownership in complex authorship: A comparative study of joint works in Copyright Law. European Intellectual Property Review, 34(1), pp. 22-32. (doi:10.2139/ssrn.1992610)

2011

Margoni, T. and Perry, M. (2011) Scientific and critical editions of public domain works: an example of European copyright law (dis)harmonization. Canadian Intellectual Property Review, 27, pp. 157-170.

Margoni, T. and Perry, M. (2011) Legal consequences of packet inspection. SSRN Electronic Journal, (doi:10.2139/ssrn.2028981)

Ramachandran, K., Margoni, T. and Perry, M. (2011) Clarifying privacy in the clouds. SSRN Electronic Journal, (doi:10.2139/ssrn.1755225)

2010

Perry, M. and Margoni, T. (2010) From music tracks to Google maps: Who owns computer-generated works? Computer Law and Security Review, 26(6), pp. 621-629. (doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2010.09.005)

Margoni, T. and Peters, D. M. (2010) Creative Commons licenses: Empowering open access.

Perry, M. and Margoni, T. (2010) FLOSS for the Canadian Public Sector: Open Democracy. In: Fourth International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS '10), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, 10-16 Feb 2010, pp. 294-300. ISBN 9781424458059 (doi:10.1109/ICDS.2010.52)

Perry, M. and Margoni, T. (2010) Free-libre open source software as a public policy choice. International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, 3(3&4), pp. 212-222.

Perry, M. and Margoni, T. (2010) Interpreting Network Discrimination in the CRTC and FCC. In: The Fourth International Conference on Digital Society, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, 10-16 February 2010, pp. 301-306. ISBN 9780769539539 (doi:10.1109/ICDS.2010.53)

2009

Ciurcina, M., De Martin, J. C., Margoni, T. , Morando, F. and Ricolfi, M. (2009) Remunerating creativity, freeing knowledge: file-sharing and extended collective licenses. SSRN Electronic Journal, (doi:10.2139/ssrn.2571654)

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