Prof. Yaniv Benhamou

Data protection, Digital law & New technologies

Intellectual property & Art law

Yaniv Benhamou

Prof. Yaniv Benhamou (Dr. iur., Attorney-at-Law, Lecturer at the University of Geneva) specializes in Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Art Law.

He regularly advises private companies and public authorities with regard to Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Entertainment Law and Technology Law (including Big Data and Artificial Intelligence).

Besides his legal practice, Prof. Yaniv Benhamou works at the University of Geneva, where he teaches classes on Privacy and Data Protection, Intellectual Property Law and Digital law, and is in charge of institutional missions relating to the digital transformation.

He is executive director of the Internet Law Summer School and co-organizer of the WIPO-UNIGE Summers School on Intellectual Property. He is also co-author of the WIPO guide on Big Data and IP (forthcoming) and appointed expert by WIPO for museums and copyright. He is also member of the board of directors of the Art-Law Centre in Geneva. He was recently Visiting Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2018) as well as the Centre for Media and Communications Law at Melbourne University (2016).

In addition to these legal activities, he is involved in associative and cultural activities in the field of Art and Music, in particular he co-founded lab-of-arts and Artists Rights, free legal consultations for Swiss artists (i.e. Swiss volunteering lawyers for the arts).

Education

Harvard University, Cambridge, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Visiting Scholar (2018)

Center for Media and Communications Law, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Visiting Scholar (2015)

Admission to the Geneva Bar (2015)

University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, PhD, thesis « Dommages-intérêts suite à la violation de droit de la propriété intellectuelle » (summa cum laude, François Bellot Prize) (2012)

Max Planck Institute for IP, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Visiting Scholar (2007)

University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, Master (2005)

Summer School on Intellectual Property, Geneva, Certificate of the WIPO (2005)

Duke University and University of Geneva, Certificate in Transnational Law (2003)

Experience

Aegis (formerly ABR Attorneys at Law): counsel (since 2019)

Appointed Expert for WIPO on copyright & museums (2017-2019)

University of Geneva, Associate Professor and lecturer (since 2015)

University of Geneva, Executive Director of the Digital Law Summer School, co-organizer of the WIPO-UNIGE Summer School on IP (since 2015)

Lenz & Staehelin, Geneva, associate (2013-2019)

Nater Dallafior, Zurich, associate (2010-2011)

Languages

French, English, German, Spanish

 

Publications by Prof. Yaniv Benhamou

Traitement des données par les autorités pénales : de l'accès aux données à la procédure de tri

Revue pénale suisse 2/2021, p. 209-233

Cyberassurance : instrument utile pour la cybersécurité des entreprises ? Analyse juridique et recommandations des mesures étatiques concernant les cyberassurances visant à protéger les entreprises (PME)

Jusletter 24 août/2020

Big Data and the Law: a holistic analysis based on a three-step approach - Mapping property-like rights, their exceptions and licensing practices

Revue suisse de droit des affaires et du marché financier 4/2020, p. 393-418

WIPO Revised Report on Copyright Practices and Challenges of Museums, 28/5

World Intellectual Property Organization, 2019

L'avocat a-t-il aussi le droit d'être dans les nuages?

Revue de l’avocat 3/2019, p. 119-126.

GDPR on the Swiss Territory. Cooperation with European Authorities and Enforcement of Monetary Fines

Jusletter IT 24. Mai/2018

RGPD sur sol suisse : mise en oeuvre

Digma 3/2018, p. 142-149

Blocage de sites web en droit suisse : des injonctions civiles et administratives au blocage pénal

Expert Focus 8/2017, p. 524-532

Brexit et droit public en matière d'art et de biens culturels

Juris art etc. 42/2017, p. 27-29

Data portability and interoperability : an issue that needs to be anticipated in today's IT-driven world

Expert Focus 8/2017, p. 518-523
Pratique juridique actuelle 11/2017, p. 1302-1317

Quantification of monetary relief, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Question 246

Sic ! 11/2017, p. 774 ss

Website blocking injunctions under Swiss law. From civil and administrative injunctions to criminal seizure or forfeiture

Expert Focus 11/2017, p. 885-893

Circulation des biens numériques : de la commercialisation à la portabilité

Sic ! 11/2016, p. 571-591

Copyright and Museums in the Digital Age

WIPO Magazine 3/2016, p. 25-28

[Compte rendu de :] Saisie-contrefaçon / Pierre Verron (éd.)

Sic ! 12/2016, p. 686

Droit d’auteur et musées numériques

Art Law Magazine 2/2015, p. 9-13

Comment on the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, 14 May 2009 - Case No. I ZR 98/06)

International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC) 2010, p. 236-245
GPR – Zeitschrift für das Privatrecht der Europäischen Union 4/2009, p. 159-170

Collaboration à Girardin, Daniel/Pirker, Christian. Controverses : Une histoire juridique et éthique de la photographie

Arles (Actes Sud) 2008

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