Editorial

• Author: Axel Metzger
• Pages: 1-2

Axel Metzger

2019

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Editorial

by Axel Metzger

© 2019 Axel Metzger

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It is a great pleasure to introduce the new issue

of JIPITEC – the Journal of Intellectual Property,

Information Technology and E-Commerce Law

– to its esteemed readers. Issue 10(1) marks the

celebration of an important milestone for the

journal, its 10

th

anniversary. The journal was founded

in 2009 by Thomas Dreier (Karlsruhe), Gerald

Spindler (Göttingen), and Axel Metzger (Berlin) with

the help of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

(DFG). In the years following, the board of editors

was enlarged as we welcomed Séverine Dusollier

(Paris), Lucie Guibault (Halifax), Miquel Peguera

Poch (Barcelona), Chris Reed (London), and Karin

Sein (Tartu) as members. With the help of the new

editors, JIPITEC has developed during its rst ten

years into a European journal with international

aspiration. Since 2016, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für

Recht und Informatik (DGRI) has supported JIPITEC

as its main sponsor and partner of cooperation.

Statistics show that visits to JIPITEC’s website have

tripled in the last ve years – from around 10,000 in

2014 to 30,000 in 2018. The majority of the readers

in 2018 originated from the United States (13,961),

followed by the United Kingdom (3,911), Germany

(2,130), the Netherlands (1,023), and France (1,004).

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JIPITEC is thus read and cited across Europe and

beyond. It has just recently been included on

HeinOnline and will soon be listed on Scopus,

two major international publication and citation

databases. Since 2009, JIPITEC has published three

to four issues per year, comprising scientic peer

reviewed articles, with occasional supplementary

material, such as, political statements by academics,

case notes and reports, as well as book reviews.

The current issue shows how vibrant the scientic

community of JIPITEC is today. Its editors received

17 article submissions for this issue – none of which

were solicited actively. All the submissions have been

reviewed by at least one (often two) expert(s) in the

eld in a double-blind peer review process. We are

extremely grateful to our reviewers, all renowned

experts in their eld, who undertook the burden of

quality control of the journal’s contents in the last

ten years on a voluntary basis.

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The contributions of issue 10(1) reect the main

areas of interest of JIPITEC over the last ten years.

Daniel Gervais provides a broad overview of the

challenges to the different types of intellectual

property rights raised by big data and articial

intelligence (“Exploring the Interfaces Between Big

Data and Intellectual Property Law”). Tatiana Eleni

Synodinou explains the still vague but practically

very important concept of lawful use in European

copyright law (“Lawfulness for Users in European

Copyright Law”). In their paper, Mathew Heim and

Igor Nikolic consider how the European FRAND

access regime could be applied as a regulatory

solution for dominant digital platforms (“A FRAND

Regime for Dominant Digital Platforms”). Amélie

Pia Heldt explores the human rights dimension of

the use of lter technologies by intermediaries

(“Upload-Filters: Bypassing Classical Concepts of

Censorship?”). Begoña Gonzalez Otero evaluates the

current initiatives of the European Commission to

foster data sharing in the private sector with a special

emphasis on data access for articial intelligence

training purposes (“Evaluating the EC Private Data

Sharing Principles”). René Mahieu, Joris van Hoboken

and Hadi Asghari examine the question of who is

responsible for observing data protection obligations

in networked service settings under the current

European data protection rules (“Responsibility for