Dr Ula Furgal

Lecturer (Law)

10 The Square, room 304, G12 8QQ

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933

Biography

Dr Ula Furgał is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law. She is a member of the CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, where she co-leads the theme on Dealing with Creators. Ula’s research lies at the intersection of copyright, information law and media studies, focusing on the dynamics between press, platforms and creators. She has published in peer-reviews journals such as GRUR International and EIPR, and contributed to the research projects on regulation of platform economy (AHRC/PEC), reversion rights (Horizon 2000, IPRIA), technical protection measures (KR21) and European media law (IViR). She is a managing editor of the the CREATe Working Paper series and an editor of the Copyright Directive implementation resource page.

Ula first joined the University of Glasgow as a postdoctoral researcher at CREATe in November 2019, after completing her doctoral studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She defended her PhD thesis entitled "Rights on news: expanding copyright on the internet" which explores the effects of a new press publishers' rights in the EU copyright framework, in February 2020. She holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Trinity College Dublin, and a Masters in Law and a Bachelor in Public Administration from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

Research interests

Ula’s research interests lie primarily in the field of intellectual property law, at the intersection of copyright, information law and media studies. She currently focuses on the legal protection of press publications, and the place and role of the authors in the European copyright framework.

Publications

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Number of items: 25.

2025

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933, Iramina, Aline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5141-9544, Mahapatra, Phalguni and Thomas, Amy (2025) Report on the European Copyright Society's Annual Conference 2025. GRUR International, (doi: 10.1093/grurint/ikaf119) (Early Online Publication)

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933 (2025) Case note: Le Figaro et al. v X. GRUR International, (Accepted for Publication)

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933 and Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609 (2025) The UK’s Path to Sustainable Journalism in the Marketplace of Ideas [Blog post]. [Website]

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933 and Kretschmer, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4088-6569 (2025) Bargaining in the shadow of the press publishers’ right. In: Senftleben, Martin, Irion, Kristina, McGonagle, Tarlach and Poort, Joost (eds.) Cambridge Handbook on Media Law and Policy in Europe. Cambridge University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933 (2024) Press publishers' right. In: Torremans, Paul, Stamatoudi, Irini, Yu, Peter and Jütte, Bernd Justin (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law. Edward Elgar Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933 (2024) The journalists' share. [Website]

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933 and Kretschmer, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4088-6569 (2024) Bargaining in the Shadow of the Press Publishers' Right. Working Paper. CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10948500).

Furgal, Ula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933 and Torremans, Paul (2024) Collective Management in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In: Gervais, Daniel and Quintais, João Pedro (eds.) Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, Fourth Edition. Kluwer Law International. (Accepted for Publication)