Barbara Pasa

• Università Iuav di Venezia

This paper introduces the legal framework for the use of computer programmers, software developers, system analysts, program analysts, systems software designers, software application designers, source code editors and end-users who are taking over many of the tasks previously performed by programmers. They are required to share a strong understand...

The complex nature of industrial design, which combines functional and aesthetic elements, allows for different modes of protection, with cumulative, separate or partially overlapping regimes applicable according to different legal systems. The legal framework is rapidly changing, especially in Europe where the principle of cumulation of a special...

Am 6. Oktober 2018 feierte Reiner Schulze seinen 70. Geburtstag. Mit seiner Erfahrung und seinem Wissen spielte er in den letzten Jahren eine einzigartige Rolle bei der Gestaltung des Europäischen Privatrechts. Einzigartig waren nicht nur die zahlreichen Arbeiten, die er schrieb, sondern auch die große Zahl an persönlichen Beziehungen, die er zu Ko...

Cultural Heritage in the European Union provides a critical analysis of the laws and policies which address cultural heritage throughout Europe, considering them in light of the current challenges faced by the Union. The volume examines the matrix of organisational and regulatory frameworks concerned with cultural heritage both in the Union and its...

Debate in Europe has sought to clarify whether the term 'contractual penalties' could be interpreted, in a system-neutral meaning, as an 'agreed sum to be paid for non-performance' (or 'stipulated payment for non-performance') in order to accommodate common law systems, which have traditionally resisted the notion of penalty as a punitive civil san...

Italian commentators welcome the promotion of the Europeanization of Private Law through the process of increasing the coherence of EC legislation in the areas of consumer and contract law, although they appear to conclude that the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) and the Acquis Principles (ACQP) fall significantly short of achieving those go...