Rate My Professor Giancarlo Frosio

Professor Giancarlo Frosio is Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast, where he also serves as Director of the Global Intellectual Property and Technology (G-IPTech) Centre, launched in June 2023, and Programme Lead for the LLM in Intellectual Property Law, which he designed and launched. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. in intellectual property law from Duke University School of Law, an LL.M. in information technology and telecommunications law from the University of Strathclyde, and a law degree from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg from 2016 to 2021, where he co-directed the Master 2 in International and European IP Law. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Intermediary Liability Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, launching the World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap) and the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab). He has held visiting professorships at institutions including the University of Turin, Strasbourg University, University of Turin School of Management, and Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Professor Frosio's research specializations include intellectual property and digitization, IP in relation to public interest and global justice, the history and economics of creativity, information technology, internet governance, platform economy, and artificial intelligence. His work addresses copyright law, public domain, open access, internet and user-based creativity, IP enforcement online, intermediary liability, data protection, access to knowledge, and the law of artificial intelligence. Key publications include his monograph Reconciling Copyright with Cumulative Creativity: The Third Paradigm (Edward Elgar, 2018) and the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability (Oxford University Press, 2020). He has contributed numerous articles to leading journals and acted as an expert for the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Intellectual Property Office, and other international organisations. Professor Frosio is a Non-Residential Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and Faculty Associate at the NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society in Turin. He regularly delivers invited lectures and keynotes, such as on 'Litigating Generative AI: Copyright Challenges and Creative Market Disruption' and 'Copyright Infringement in AI Training & Outputs'.