Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht
In addition to the members of the original research group, many leading copyright scholars have also declared their support for the Declaration. These include:
First Name Name Function and Affiliation Date of signature
Zuzana Adamova JUDr., PhD., Intellectual Property Law Institute, Trnava University 00/00/09
Emanuela Arezzo Dr., Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy 08/10/09
Ida Madieha Azmi Professor, International Islamic University of Malaysia 22/07/08
Shoshana Berman Judge (ret.), Lecturer Hebrew University Rehovot, Israel 22/07/08
Maja Bogataj Jancic Dr., Head of Intellectual Property Institute, Slovenia 12/09/08
Hayri Bozgeyik Dr., Assistant Professor, Krikkale University, Law Faculty, Turkey 25/09/08
Delia Brown

National Copyright Director, Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Australia

 18/08/08
Niklas Bruun Professor, IPR University Center, Helsinki 22/07/08
Beatriz Bugallo Profesora, Investigadora, Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay 22/07/08
Oleksandr Bulayenko LLM., University of Lund, Dept. of International Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Law; Raoul Wallenberg Institute 03/04/11
Margaret Chon Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice, Seattle University School of Law 28/07/08
William Cornish Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge 10/07/08
John Cross Professsor, University of Louisville 22/07/08
François Curchod Adjunct Professor, Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg, CEIPI 23/07/08
Joao de Almeida e Paiva Almeida e Paiva & Associados, Portugal 07/05/11
Antonella De Robbio Information Specialist (Referent for Copyright and Open Access), University of Padua 13/07/09
Estelle Derclaye Dr., Lecturer in law, University of Nottingham 16/12/08
Graeme B. Dinwoodie Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law 22/07/08
Jivko Draganov Associate Professor, Law Faculty, UNWE, Sofia/Bulgarien 01/12/10
Josef Drexl Professor, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 22/07/08
Graham Dutfield Prof. Dr., University of Leeds 31/03/10
Mireille Eechoud, van Dr., Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam 24/10/08
Orit Fischman Afori Associate Professor, College of Management Academic Studies, Law School, Israel 11/08/08
Norbert Flechsig Professor, Universität Tübingen 26/05/09
Ysolde Gendreau Professor, University of Montreal, Canada 23/07/08
Luis Mariano Genovesi Profesor, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentinien 22/07/08
Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons Associate Professor, University of Toledo College of Law 07/11/08
Christine Godt Professorin, Universität Bremen 23/07/08
Volker Grassmuck Dr., University of Sao Paulo 14/12/09
Willem Grosheide Professor, Center for Intellectual Property Law, Utrecht University 22/07/08
Lucie Guibault Assistant Professor, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam 21/10/08
José Antonio Gómez Segade Professor, Chair of Commercial Law, Law School, University of Santiago de Compostela 22/07/08
Thomas Hoeren Professor, Universität Münster/Director ITM 12/08/08
Jeanette Hofmann Dr., Researcher, London School of Economics 18/09/08
Howard Johnson Deputy Head of Bangor Law School, Intellectual Property teacher 04/11/08
Stellina Jolly Lecturer; Panjab University 01/01/09
John Kiggundu Professor of Law, University of Botswana 22/07/08
Yasuto Komada Associate Professor, Sophia University, Faculty of Law, Japan 15/02/09
Olga A. Krauss Torres Profesora de Derecho, Universidad de Colima, México 22/07/08
Martin Kretschmer Professor, Director of Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) 16/09/08
Till Kreutzer Dr., Rechtsanwalt, Büro für informationsrechtliche Expertise Hamburg 22/06/09
Rainer Kuhlen Professor, Lehrstuhlinhaber, Universität Konstanz 13/05/09
Matthias Lamping Dr., Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht, München 09/01/11
Hervé LeCrosnier Internet Technolgoies Professor, Université de Caen 25/07/08
Matthias Leistner Professor, Chair of Civil Law, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Commercial Law, University of Bonn 24/07/08
Christian LeStanc Professor of Law, University of Montpellier and Strasbourg, CEIPI 22/07/08
Bruno Lewicki Dr., Lecturer, State University of Rio de Janeiro 26/08/08
Xiuqlin Lin Professor of Law, IP Institute, Xiamen University 25/08/09
Kung-Chung Liu Professor, Research Fellow, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taipeh 22/07/08
Michael Madison Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh 03/12/08
Ryszard Markiewicz Professor Jagiellonian University, Director of the Intellectual Property Law Institute 02/08/09
Roberto Mastroianni Professor, University of Naples Federico II 23/10/09
Duncan Matthews Dr., Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary, University of London 22/07/08
Charles McManis Professor of Law, Washington University, School of Law, St. Louis, USA 22/07/08
Bryan Mercurio Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law 15/05/09
Axel Metzger Professor Leibniz Universität Hannover, Direktor des Instituts für Rechtsinformatik 03/06/09
Céline Meyrueis-Pebeyre Associate Professor, University of Strasbourg, CEIPI 22/07/08
Alberto Musso Full Professor of IP and Competition Law - Deputy Dean, University of Bologna, School of Law 22/07/08
Wee Loon Ng-Loy Associate Professor, National University of Singapore 22/07/08
Georg Nolte Dr., Taylor Wessing 06/11/09
Enyinna Nwauche Associate Professor of Law, Director Centre for African Legal Studies, Nigeria 09/09/08
Carmen Otero García-Castrillón Profesora Titular de Derecho internacional privado, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Complutense 30/07/08
Adejoke Oyewunmi Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos 07/08/08
Ana María Pacón Professor, Master of Intellectual Property, Catholic University of Peru 23/07/08
Tim Padfield Chair, Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (UK) 15/06/09
Pablo Palazzi Director, LLM Commercial Law Program, Universidad de San Andres, Argentinien 27/09/09
Thomas Pflüger Dr., Ministerialrat, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg 25/07/08
Florian Philapitsch Dr., Stv. Behördenleiter, Kommunikationsbehörde Austria 13/08/08
Yves Reboul Professor, University of Strasbourg, Director General, CEIPI 22/07/08
Manfred Rehbinder Professor (em.) Universität Zürich, Vorstand Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht, München 02/06/09
Giorgio Resta Professor, University of Bari 24/09/08
Cyrill Rigamonti Professor, Universität Bern 22/07/08
Antonella Robbio, De Referent for the Copyright for Library System, University of Padua 07/06/09
Allan Rocha de Souza Professor, Rio de Janeiro State University 13/09/08
Abdul Rahman Sheikh Dr., UAE University, United Arab Emirates 22/07/08
Hartmut Simon Dr., Akadem. Direktor, früher Universität Siegen 21/10/08
HuiXian Song Vice-Director of Editorial Department, China Copyright 16/07/08
Cahit Suluk Dr., Lecturer, Istanbul Bilgi University 23/07/08
Florent Thouvenin Dr., Rechtsanwalt, Universität Zürich 29/12/09
Cláudia Trabuco Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 22/07/08
Benedetta Ubertazzi Dr., Lecturer, University of Milan ( IULM) 23/07/08
Hanns Ullrich Professor (em.) Universität der Bundeswehr, Neubiberg, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 22/07/08
V.K. Unni Assistant Professor, Teaching/Research, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad 26/08/08
Simonetta Vezzoso Dr., Researcher and Teacher, University of Trento 20/10/08
Charlotte Waelde Professor, University of Edinburgh 08/08/08
Fabian Wigger SUISA 15/12/09
Hong Xue Dr., University of Hong Kong 22/07/08

 

Further important supporters are:
First Name Name Function and Affiliation Date of signature
Philipp Ahlers Student, Universität Bayreuth 22/01/09
Seyavash Amini Dipl.-Jur., Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Universität Wien 22/07/08
Renata Avila LL.M., Project Lead, Creative Commons Guatemala 09/01/09
Bodó Balázs Assistant Lecturer, Budapest University of Technology and Economics 25/07/08
Maciej Barczewski Dr., Advocat, University of Gdansk 23/07/08
Edson Beas Rodrigues Jr. Research Fellow, Instituto de Direito do Comércio Internacional e Desenvolvimento 16/07/08
Fabricio Bertini Pasquot Polido University of Sao Paulo/International Trade Law and Development Institute 15/01/10
Raffaella Bisceglia Chair Assistant (IP las chair), University of Parma 22/07/08
Daniel Boos Digitale Allmend, Schweiz 04/02/10
Delia Brasfalean LL.M. Eur., Stipendiatin Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 22/07/08
Friederieke Busch Stipendiatin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 22/07/08
Timo Ehmann Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 22/07/08
Gabriel F. Leonardos LL.M., Attorney-at-Law, Senior Partner of Momsen, Leonardos & Cia., Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien 28/07/08
Alfred Frueh lic. iur., Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 22/07/08
Josef Gadermayr Mag. iur., LL.M. in IP, Rechtsanwalt, Gugerbauer & Partner Rechtsanwälte KEG, Wien 22/07/08
Teresa Grzeszak Dr., Warsaw University 13/03/10
Sabine Hüttner Stipendiatin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 18/07/08
Maria Iglesias Dr., Head of the IPR unit, CRID-FUNDP 22/07/08
Tomoki Ishiara Visiting Scholar, attorney at law, UC Berkeley Law School 00/00/09
Jener Kath Jardim Student and Lawyer, PUC-Rio 29/05/09
Omar Kaminski Director for Internet, IBDI 00/00/09
Evangelia Kokotsaki Doktorandin, Rechtsanwältin, Universität Athen 00/00/09
Robert Kordic Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 23/07/08
Sebastian Krujatz Doktorand an der Universität Bayreuth, Stipendiat am Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 19/08/08
Gabriel F. Leonardos Attorney-at-law, Momsen, Leonardos & Cia., Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien 28/07/08
Federico Mastrolilli Dr., LL.M. in Copyright Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 28/10/08
Rita Matulionyte Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg 12/10/09
Esther Ngom Student Master on IP, University of Yaounde, Cameroon 18/07/08
Maria Oliete Ballester LL.M., Doktorandin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Lehrbeauftragte an der LMU, München 23/07/08
Carmelo.Simone Parisi Student, Luiss Guido Carli, Rom 18/11/08
Martin Pflüger Rechtsanwalt, Doktorand und Stipendiat am Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 09/07/08
Pedro Pina ESTGOH/PC 14/10/09
Wole Popoola Student, Research 15/08/08
Sébastien Proust Herbert Smith LLP 29/03/10
Marcio Ribeiro Student, Lisbon University 10/02/10
Claudia Schmidt Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Philipps-Universität, Marburg 23/07/08
Albrecht Schmidt-Bischoffshausen Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 15/07/08
Giorgio Spedicato PhD, University of Bologna 22/07/08
Martin Stierle Student, Universität Bayreuth 28/07/08
Emese Szilagyi Doktorandin und Stipendiatin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 23/07/08
Claudia Tapia Dipl.-Jur.,Doktorandin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 23/07/08
Yong Wan Dr., Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 14/04/10
Andrea Wechsler Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München 17/07/08
Fabíola Wüst Zibetti PhD Candidate; University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 14/01/09
Sa Yu Researcher in Law & Technology Program, LL.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada

21/07/08
Lukasz Zelechowski PhD candidate, Warsaw University

19/11/08