{"podcast":{"title":"Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast","slug":"centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001","podcast_index_feed_id":7112001,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/cipil-events/","website_url":"https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/306a401b-e4b8-4829-88cf-c2e63320e181/MyRqGB4_oKOt082p5LqWXc85.jpg","author":"Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge","episode_count":179,"summary":"The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law CIPIL was founded in 2004. Through its activities, CIPIL aims to promote the investigation, understanding and critical appraisal of these important fields of law. The CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar Series brings together specialist speakers to discuss prevailing issues in relation to copyright, patents, trademarks, design rights, and other subjects. The Centre brings together a group of legal academics already recognised for their historical and inter-disciplinary, as well as doctrinal, research. Drawing on the resources of Cambridge University, CIPIL is ideally positioned to carry out and promote well-informed interdisciplinary work. For more information see the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001"},"episode":{"title":"A Technology Perspective on Intellectual Property: CIPIL Evening Seminar","slug":"a-technology-perspective-on-intellectual-property-cipil-evening-seminar","published_at":"2026-02-13T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001/a-technology-perspective-on-intellectual-property-cipil-evening-seminar","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001","url":"https://cipil-events.captivate.fm/episode/a-technology-perspective-on-intellectual-property-cipil-evening-seminar","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4facf893-6894-4c1a-8558-20ff74c98d72.mp3","summary":"Speaker : Dr Svitlana Lebedenko, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institute. Biography : Dr Svitlana Lebedenko specialises in innovation and industrial policy, law and technology, and intellectual property law. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick and a part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institute, contributing to the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Previously, she was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University School of Law's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, a Research Fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law. Her first book, Russian Innovation and Intellectual Property: From Communism to Capitalism, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2026. Abstract : Intellectual property has mainly been studied from the institutional and systems perspectives. While both have produced useful insights, neither really explains the spread of intellectual property, which, despite its numerous institutional failures, has never been rolled back. The talk introduces a technology perspective on intellectual property to provide a macro-level explanation of this phenomenon of resilience. Two propositions arise from conceptualising intellectual property as a technology. First, the efficiency and neutrality theses of technology serve as intellectual property anchors. Second, the evolutionary nature of technology means that changes to the tools of knowledge gover…","meta_description":"Speaker : Dr Svitlana Lebedenko, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institute.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1600,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001/episodes/a-technology-perspective-on-intellectual-property-cipil-evening-seminar/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001/a-technology-perspective-on-intellectual-property-cipil-evening-seminar.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}