The winners of the 2019 essay competition are

1st place : Jingwen Guo, PhD Candidate, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, London: “Liberty, Copyright, and Community – Confucianism and the Protection of Intellectual Property in Pre-modern China” Read The Essay Here

2nd place: Daniel Jongsma, postdoctoral researcher at Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland). “Three Types of Balancing in EU Copyright Law: the (mis)uses of the concept of ‘fair balance’” Read The Essay Here

 3rd place ex aequo:

Sirilak Rungruangkunladit, Senior Copyright Officer of the Copyright Office, Department of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand: “Copyright in the digital age: The need to formalize?” Read The Essay Here

 Ms. Luminita Olteanu, PhD Candidate, UCL Faculty of Laws: “Rebranding strategies and their boomerang effect – the curious case of Burberry” Read The Essay Here