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 Intell. Property Law
• Innovation and Regulation
• Intellectual Property and Privacy

Recent publications

1. Re-thinking intellectual property law’s promise of democratic inclusi…

   Mendis, S. (Accepted/In press). Re-thinking intellectual property law’s promise of democratic inclusion. In Research handbook on intellectual property and inclusivity Edward Elgar.

2. Copyright enforcement on social media platforms - Implications for fr…

   Mendis, S. (2023). Copyright enforcement on social media platforms: Implications for freedom of expression in the digital public sphere. In H. Werthner, C. Ghezzi, J. Kramer, J. Nida-Rümelin, B. Nuseibeh, E. Prem, & A. Stanger (Eds.), Introduction to digital humanism: A textbook (pp. 463-479). Springer Cham.

3. The magic bullet that isn’t! - The limited efficacy of Article 14 DSA…

   Mendis, S. (2023). The magic bullet that isn’t! The limited efficacy of Article 14 DSA in safeguarding copyright exceptions to quotation and parody on social media platforms. Web publication/site, . https://verfassungsblog.de/no-magic-bullet/

4. 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.

5. 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.