Thomas Margoni

Thomas Margoni is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law and co-director of CREATe at the School of Law, University of Glasgow where he also convenes the LLM programme in Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy. His research concentrates on the relationship between law (especially IP) and new technologies with particular attention to the role of the Internet as a new medium to access, create and disseminate knowledge in the information society.

Recent examples of research projects include OpenMinTeD, the EU H2020 project for the development of an e-infrastructure for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in Europe where Thomas coordinated the legal working group (www.openminted.eu); OpenAireAdvance, the EU 2020 project to support Open Science in the EU; online intermediaries and platform economy; copyright, design rights and 3D printing; the digitisation of cultural heritage; and the role of property rights in sports.