On January 18, 2011 the Minister of Culture and National Heritage appointed Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz as the Chairman of the Copyright Commission. Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz, who holds the position of Director of the Institute of Intellectual Property Law at the Jagiellonian University, is a well known specialist in the field of copyright, information and industrial property law, a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, a member of the Legal Commission of the Polish Academy of Learning and a lawyer in our law firm. Prof. Markiewicz was appointed as arbitrator on 21 December 2010.