Dr Ula Furgal

Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law (Law)

10 The Square, room 304, G12 8QQ

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

Biography

Dr Ula Furgal is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law. She joined the University of Glasgow as a postdoctoral researcher at the CREATe Centre in November 2019. Ula has been working on the Platform Regulation project, which concerns regulation of platform economy in the context of creative industries (funded by the AHRC Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (PEC)), and the Reversion Rights Project, a joint initiative of CREATe and IPRIA, University of Melbourne. Ula is an editor of the Copyright Directive implementation resource page and a managing editor of the CREATe Working Paper series.

Ula completed her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Rights on news: expanding copyright on the internet" which explores the effects of a new press publishers' right on the EU copyright framework, in February 2020. She holds 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).

Ula’s interests lie at the intersection of copyright, information law and media studies.

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: 16.

2023

Furgal, U. (2023) The emperor has no clothes: how the press publishers’ right implementation exposes its shortcomings. GRUR International, (doi: 10.1093/grurint/ikad025) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Kretschmer, M. , Furgał, U. and Schlesinger, P. (2022) The emergence of platform regulation in the UK: an empirical-legal study. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 2(2), w2.2.4. (doi: 10.34669/wi.wjds/2.2.4)

Furgal, U. (2022) Creator contracts: report on the implementation of Chapter 3 of the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. Other. European Composer and Songwriter Alliance.

Furgal, U. (2022) Regulating news media vs digital platforms: Canada throws its hat into the ring. [Website]

Furgal, U. and Priora, G. (2022) Empowered to negotiate or obliged to contract? Lessons from the Italian implementation of the press publishers’ right. [Website]

2021

Furgal, U. (2021) Press publishers’ right: social media enter the stage. [Website]

Furgał, U. (2021) The EU press publishers’ right: where do Member States stand? Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 16(8), pp. 887-893. (doi: 10.1093/jiplp/jpab105)

Kretschmer, M. , Furgał, U. and Schlesinger, P. (2021) Policy Brief: The regulation of online platforms: Mapping an emergent regulatory field. Other. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.

Furgał, U. (2021) Interpreting EU reversion rights: why ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ should be the guiding principle. European Intellectual Property Review, 43(5), pp. 283-291.

Kretschmer, M. , Furgał, U. and Schlesinger, P. (2021) The emergence of platform regulation in the UK: an empirical-legal study. Discussion Paper. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.

2020

Furgal, U. (2020) Reversion rights in the European Union Member States. Working Paper. UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4281035).

Furgal, U. , Kretschmer, M. and Thomas, A. (2020) Memes and Parasites: a discourse analysis of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. Working Paper. UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4085050).

Furgal, U. (2020) Making Google and Facebook pay? Comparing the EU press publishers’ right and Australian Draft Media Bargaining Code. [Website]

2019

Furgal, U. (2019) Author MIA. Place of Journalists in the Post-Press Publishers' Right World. TILTing Perspectives 2019: 'Regulating a world in transition', Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, 15-17 May 2019.