https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-1933Biography
Dr Ula Furgał is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law. She is a member of the CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, where she co-leads the theme on Dealing with Creators. Ula’s research lies at the intersection of copyright, information law and media studies, focusing on the dynamics between press, platforms and creators. She has published in peer-reviews journals such as GRUR International and EIPR, and contributed to the research projects on regulation of platform economy (AHRC/PEC), reversion rights (Horizon 2000, IPRIA), technical protection measures (KR21) and European media law (IViR). She is a managing editor of the the CREATe Working Paper series and an editor of the Copyright Directive implementation resource page.
Ula first joined the University of Glasgow as a postdoctoral researcher at CREATe in November 2019, after completing her doctoral studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She defended her PhD thesis entitled "Rights on news: expanding copyright on the internet" which explores the effects of a new press publishers' rights in the EU copyright framework, in February 2020. She holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Trinity College Dublin, and a Masters in Law and a Bachelor in Public Administration from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Research interests
Ula’s research interests lie primarily in the field of intellectual property law, at the intersection of copyright, information law and media studies. She currently focuses on the legal protection of press publications, and the place and role of the authors in the European copyright framework.
Supervision
- Mahapatra, Phalguni
Copyright Users Rights and Contractual Override - Sangaré, Joséphine
Public Private Partnerships in Cyber Capacity Building
Teaching
Current:
- Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property Law (LLM) [convenor]
- Information Law and Policy (LLM) [convenor]
- Digital Creative Industries (Undergraduate) [convenor]
Past:
- Copyright X (affiliated course offered by Harvard Law School)
- Elements of Law for Engineers (Undergraduate)
- Business Law (Undergraduate)
