BIRŠTONAS RAMŪNAS, Prof. Dr.

Main areas of scientific interest, research and expertise

Intellectual Property Law, Property Law, Protection of personal non-property rights.

Education

2018 acquired a Master’s of Law (LLM), World Intellectual Property Organization and the University of Turin (Italy).
2007 acquired a Doctoral of Law degree, Mykolas Romeris University.
2003 acquired a Master’s of Law degree, Mykolas Romeris University.
2000 acquired a Bachelor’s of Philosophy degree, Vilnius University.

Main publications

Birštonas R., Liauksminaitė J. Mizaras V. Lietuvos Respublikos autorių teisių ir gretutinių teisių įstatymo komentaras. Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024
Birštonas, R. (2023). Risks to Employees’ Intellectual Property Rights Posed by Artificial Intelligence. Journal of the University of Latvia. Law, 16, 49–59. https://doi.org/10.22364/jull.16.03
Birštonas, Ramūnas; Mantrov, Vadim; Kelli, Aleksei. The principle of appropriate and proportionate remuneration in copyright contracts and its implementation in the Baltic States // New legal reality: challenges and perspectives. II: 8th international scientific conference of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia, 21–22 October 2021. Rīga : University of Latvia Press, 2022.

Main scientific and research projects

2022-2023 leader of the project “Copyright and Related Rights Law Commentary”. The project financed by the Lithuanian Council of Culture.
2022-2023 national expert of the project “Trade Secrets Litigation Trends in the EU“. The project commissioned by the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
2022 national expert of the project “Secure Digital Lending”, Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) program.
2022 national expert of the project “Remuneration study of phonogram performers and producers”. Coordinator ICF SA; project funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technologies (CONNECT).
2021 leader of the project “Mandatory collective administration: risks, advantages and alternatives”. Coordinator Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania; project financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
2018-2020 leader of the project “Protection of creators’ rights in creative industries”. Coordinator Vilnius University; project funded by the Lithuanian Culture Council. More information.
2018-2018 national expert of the project “EURALIUS (Harmonization of the Albanian legal system with EU standards)”. Coordinator, German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation; project funded by the European Commission.

Significant expert activity, membership

Since 2021 member of the Working Group on Legal Regulation and Practical Implementation of Law under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
2020-2021 chairman of the Intellectual Property Law Committee of the Lithuanian Bar Association, from 2021- committee member.
Since 2019 copyright expert of the Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLAB) working group.
2019 head of the VU Faculty of Law Scientific thematic group “Data ownership, transmission and access under industry 4.0”.
2019-2021 member of the working group on the preparation of the draft amendment to the Republic of Lithuania Copyright and Related Rights Law.
2017 chairman of the Lithuanian Copyright and Related Rights Commission.
2017 member of the supervision of the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania.

Awards

Popularization of science

Languages

Lithuanian, English and Russian.