We are pleased to announce the winners of the ATRIP 2025 Essay Competition, sponsored by FICPI – the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys. This year, we encountered the rare situation of ties for both first and third place, resulting in a total of five winners. The winners are as follows:
1st place: Michael P. Goodyear, Associate Professor, New York Law School, with an essay titled “Rethinking Authenticity” – The essay is available HERE; and Francesca Portante D’Alessandro, FWO PhD Fellow, KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP Law, with an essay titled “Modern Problems (Do Not) Require Modern Solutions: A Critical Assessment of the Dutch and Danish Copyright Proposals for Regulating Deepfakes” – The essay is available HERE
2nd place: Anubhuti Raje, B.A./LL.B. Candidate at Gujarat National Law University, India, with an essay titled“Can Law Catch What Melts Away? Ephemeral Art, Impermanence and the Limits of Copyright Protection“ – The essay is available HERE
3rd place: Terry Taorui Guan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, with an essay titled “Reconstructing Originality in Human–AI Collaboration under US Copyright Law” – The essay is available HERE; and Amirmohammad Hajnajafi, PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield, School of Law, United Kingdom, with an essay titled “The Climate Technology Divide: Can Human Rights Redefine the Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer?” – The essay is available HERE
ATRIP warmly congratulates the winners of this year’s competition and sincerely thanks all participants for their submissions. The first-place winners will receive the FICPI Young Scholar’s Prize at the ATRIP Congress in Sao Paulo and will be invited to present their essays during a dedicated session.
