dr. Sunimal Mendis

Bio

Sunimal Mendis is an Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) of the Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She holds a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich (awarded by the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich) and was a Fellow of the 2020 Research Sprint on AI and Platform Governance organized by the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin. Her research explores issues at the interface of intellectual property (IP) law, the digital economy and digital culture and focuses on the need to calibrate current legal, regulatory and policy frameworks in order to render IP law a more effective tool for optimizing social and economic value creation within the new digital environment.

Courses

• Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property Law
• Innovation and Regulation

Recent publications

1. Rapport D1 - Autoriteit online terroristisch en kinderpornografisch m…

   Koops, B-J., van der Sloot, B., Kamara, I., Mendis, S., & Boot, J. (2022). Rapport D1: Autoriteit online terroristisch en kinderpornografisch materiaal. Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid.

2. Democratic discourse in the digital public sphere - Re-imagining copy…

   Mendis, S. (2022). Democratic discourse in the digital public sphere: Re-imagining copyright enforcement on online social media platforms. In C. Ghezzi, E. Lee, E. Prem, & H. Werthner (Eds.), Perspectives on digital humanism (pp. 41-46). Springer Verlag.

3. Wiki (POCC) authorship - The case for an inclusive copyright

   Mendis, S. (2022). Wiki (POCC) authorship: The case for an inclusive copyright. Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law: JIPITEC, 13(3), 267-289. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4171852

4. Rapport D3 - Analyse juridische omgevingsanalyse ATKM

   van der Sloot, B., Dalla Corte, L., Kamara, I., Koops, B-J., Mendis, S., & Boot, J. (2022). Rapport D3: Analyse juridische omgevingsanalyse ATKM. (1 ed.) Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid.

5. Monitoring and filtering - European reform or global trend?

   Frosio, G., & Mendis, S. (2020). Monitoring and filtering: European reform or global trend? In G. Frosio (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability (pp. 544-565). Oxford University Press.