The Regulation and Negotiation of Intellectual Property Rights

The aim of the Workshop is to provide students of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication with the skills to recognize intellectual works that are the result of creative activity and human inventiveness and to learn the techniques for negotiating intellectual property rights. The course focuses on the management and commercialization of foreign rights of intellectual works, an activity that requires legal competences to understand the main contractual clauses, high linguistic competences to negotiate and promote works abroad, cultural, economic and historical-geographical knowledge of the country where the rights are traded. The study of Intellectual Property Law thus becomes a great field of cultural and interdisciplinary connection and an opportunity for future graduates to apply to companies belonging to the "New Creative Economy" and to international organizations that promote the protection of intellectual property all over the world.

At the end of the Workshop, students will learn the legal framework related to the various creative works protected by copyright and industrial law (patents, trademarks, design, trade secrets and unfair competition), they will deal with licensing contracts and publishing contracts, they will learn the concepts of technical-legal language necessary to negotiate agreements for the transfer of IP rights and to participate in international licensing and book fairs. They will also learn the principles of mediation for the resolution of international disputes (ADR) in the field of intellectual property and technology, which has recently been the subject of an agreement between the international organization WIPO and the Milan Chamber of Arbitration. Finally, they will learn the main features of blockchain networks and smart contracts.