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The Minister of Administration and Digitization organized on March 5, 2012, the Congress on Freedom in the Internet, which has taken place in the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. The subject of the Congress was, inter alia, discussion over legal issues of the free use of the Internet, open access and the digital business. Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz was invited to participate as leader of the debate devoted to agreements between authors, intermediaries and users of the copyrightable content.

Michał Markiewicz has won the 9th National Ski and Snowboard Championships of Legal Counselors and Legal Counselors Trainees, which took place on march 1-4, 2012 in Krynica Zdrój. He achieved the best time of the competition winning both categories: “under 35 years old” and “open”.

Our lawyers, Mr. Tomasz Koellner and Mr. Marcin Mioduszewski commented on the current situation concerning the ACTA Agreement, in the article “Facts and myths about ACTA” published in “Metro” newspaper, on January 27-29, 2012. See pdf:

“Radca Prawny”(issue 121, January 2012), an official publication of the Polish National Council for Legal Advisors, published an interview with Mr. Grzegorz Turnau “When an artist is a trademark”. Mr. Turnau in a nice way referred to the assistance provided to him by Prof. Markiewicz with one of the copyright agreements. See pdf.

On November 4, 2011, during the seminar at the 15th Book Fair in Cracow, our lawyers – Mr. Piotr Suski and Mr. Marcin Mioduszewski – delivered a lecture entitled “Co-authorship of the works and publishing agreement. Legal aspects of the joint authorship copyright in market trade”. In their speech, our lawyers presented legal issues concerning works of joint authorship as a subject of copyright agreements.

In the fifth issue of the Rejent magazine (No. 5/2010) a gloss was published regarding the ruling of the European Court of Justice delivered on September 10, 2009 (case No. C-97/08 P – Akzo Nobel), written by our lawyer, Mr. Lukasz Wieczorek. The author made comments on the problem of legal presumptions in the field of parent company joint and several liability for the infringements of antimonopoly law committed by its subsidiaries.
In the ninth issue of the Rejent magazine (No. 9/2011) Mr. Lukasz Wieczorek published another gloss pertaining to the ruling of the EU Court of Justice delivered on January 21, 2011 (case No. C-90/09 P – General Química). It continues the issue of the afore-mentioned legal presumptions. The author commented on the extension of legal presumptions on entities belonging to groups of companies.

On September 14, 2011, a workshop “Intellectual Property in Practice” was held in Warsaw, devoted to intellectual property rights issues. The workshop, organized by Business Media Solutions, grouped representatives of legal and financial departments of various businesses as well as legal counsels. Marcin Mioduszewski and Piotr Suski presented a lecture entitled “Copyright transfer agreements and license agreements in trading copyrights”.