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Here is my second contribution to Kluwer Copyright Blog. Again on Education, this one is based on the last issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law (JIPITEC), titled “The Law and the Digital Classroom”.

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Prof. José de Oliveira Ascensão was a Portuguese-Brazilian lawyer and academic who for many, many decades was the main academic reference in Portugal concerning Intellectual Law (to use his expression) and, specifically, copyright. 

I knew he was also popular in Brazil, where he worked for many years, but I guess I have been underestimating how widely popular he became there. Which might help to explain such a difference in the copyright culture of both countries – but let's keep that discussion for another time.

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This blog post is a bit late. In fact, I have some more things to post about, but unfortunately I haven't had the time to update the blog.

In the Summer, I published a blog post in Kluwer Copyright Blog. It's about the educational copyright exceptions in several countries, in light of the transposition process of Article 5 CDSM Directive. It is based on two articles by Priora/Jütte/Mezei and Lazarova.

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Um workshop dedicado à reforma europeia do direito de autor, os seus desafios, perigos e oportunidades, em cooperação com a EDRi, COMMUNIA e Wikimedia. Mais informações aqui.

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