Institute for Economic Law

Prof. Dr. Cyrill P. Rigamonti - Publications

  • Review of Wolfgang Ernst, "Kleine Abstimmungsfibel", SJZ 2024, 746 (in German) [PDF]
  • A Primer on the New Remuneration Rights for Video-on-Demand in Switzerland, in: Festschrift für Reto M. Hilty, Berlin 2024, 215 (in English) [Free Access Link]
  • Comments on the Decisions by the Criminal Court of Zug of 30 December 2020 and the High Court of Zug of 24 October 2022 in the "Rapidshare" Matter (Liability of Internet Service Providers), sic! 2023, 409 (in German) [PDF]
  • Non-Original Photographs in Swiss and Comparative Copyright Law, in: Annali italiani del diritto d'autore, della cultura e dello spettacolo (AIDA), Volume XXX-2021, Milan 2022, 329 (with Antonio Bernasconi) (in Italian) [PDF]
  • Comments on the Decision by the District Court of Zurich of 19 May 2021 in the "Trittligass" Matter (Swiss Copyright Parody Case), sic! 2022, 71 (in German) [PDF]
  • On the New Copyright Protection for Non-Original Photographs in Switzerland, GRUR International 2020, 987 (in English) [Free Access Link]
  • Walter Benjamin and Copyright Law - On the Distinction between Original and Copy, Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 3/2019, 91 (in German) [PDF]
  • The Use of Third Party Broadcasts in News Reporting on the Internet, sic! 2019, 57 (in German) [PDF]
  • On Contributory Copyright Infringement, sic! 2018, 47 (with Marc Wullschleger) (in German) [PDF], cited in: Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decision 4A_433/2018 of 8 February 2019 (BGE 145 III 72), consid. 2.2.1; Commercial Court of the Canton of Bern, Decision HG 15 100 of 16 August 2017, consid. 26.3.2, 28; High Court of the Canton of Zug, Decision S 2021 49 of 24 October 2022, consid. 8.2; Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich, Decision HG210019-O of 30 January 2024, consid. 5.5.1.3
  • Copyright and Fundamental Rights, ZBJV 2017, 365 (in German) [PDF]
  • Internet Service Provider Liability - on the Way to Administrative Copyright Law?, sic! 2016, 117 (in German) [PDF], cited in: Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decision 4A_433/2018 of 8 February 2019 (BGE 145 III 72), consid. 2.2.1, 2.3.2; Commercial Court of the Canton of Bern, Decision HG 15 100 of 16 August 2017, consid. 26.3.2, 26.3.4, 28, 29.3, 32.2.1
  • The Jurisprudence of the Swiss Federal Patent Court in 2013, in Festschrift for the Swiss Lawyer's Day 2014, Bern 2014, 307 (in German) [PDF]
  • Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers in Switzerland, in: Heckendorn Urscheler (Hrsg.), Swiss Reports Presented at the XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law, Zurich 2014, 389 (in English) [PDF]
  • Switzerland and the Substantive Law of Patent Infringement in Europe, sic! 2014, 237 (in German) [PDF]
  • The First Year of the Swiss Federal Patent Court, 112 Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (ZVglRWiss) 293 (2013) (in German) [PDF], cited in: Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decisions 4A_142/2013 of 27 August 2013 (BGE 139 III 433), consid. 2.1.3, 4A_243/2020 of 5 November 2020 (BGE 147 III 89), consid. 4.2.1, and 4A_232/2021 of 30 August 2021, consid. 3.1
  • Swiss Patent Jurisprudence 2012, 4 Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law (JIPITEC) 53 (2013) [SSRN]
  • Moral Rights - On the Globalization and the Theory of a Legal Doctrine between Copyright Law and the Right of Personality (Staempfli eds., 2013) (in German) [Link to Publisher's Website], cited in: Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Decision 4A_675/2015 of 19 April 2016 (BGE 142 III 387), consid. 4.3.1, 4.4; Commercial Court of the Canton of Aargau, Decision HOR.2013.30 of 20 October 2015, consid. 3.6.2.1.1, 3.6.2.2
  • Review of Mira T. Sundara Rajan, "Moral Rights: Principles, Practice and New Technology", 3 The IP Law Book Review 1 (2012) (in English) [PDF]
  • Review of Martina Braun, "The moral right of the performing artist", UFITA 2011/III, 871 (in German) [PDF]
  • The New Swiss Patent Litigation System, 2 Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law (JIPITEC) 3 (2011) (in English) [SSRN], cited in: Federal Patent Court, Decision S2023_004 of 18 October 2023, consid. 10
  • On the Legality of the Trade in Software Product Keys, AJP 2010, 582 (in German)  [PDF]
  • Event Marks and Trademark Law, in Festschrift for Roland von Bueren, Basel 2009, 343 (in German) [PDF], cited in: Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decision 4A_518/2021 of 6 April 2022 (BGE 148 III 257), consid. 6.3.1; Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich, Decision HG190075-O of 31 August 2021, consid. III.1.1.3, III.1.2.2, III.2.3.2
  • Current Developments in European Copyright Law, sic! 2009, 196 (in German) [PDF]
  • Theory and Practice of Indirect Patent Infringement, Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte 2009, 57 (in German) [PDF]
  • The Trade in Used Software under Swiss Copyright Law, GRUR Int. 2009, 14 (in German) [PDF]
  • Review of Stefanie Matanovic, "Contractual Dispositions of Moral Rights, also in view of French and U.S. Law" (2006), UFITA 2008/I, 247 (in German) [PDF]
  • The Conceptual Transformation of Moral Rights, 55 American Journal of Comparative Law 67 (2007) (in English) [PDF]
  • Review of Jan Poeppel, "The New Ordering of Limitations on Copyright in the Digital Environment" (2005), UFITA 2007/I, 258 (in German) [PDF]
  • Deconstructing Moral Rights, 47 Harvard International Law Journal 353 (2006) (in English) [PDF], cited in: Fahmy v. Jay-Z, 2015 WL 6394455, 116 U.S.P.Q.3d 1830 (C.D. Cal. 2015); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. v. Buchel, 593 F.3d 38 (1st Cir. 2010); Hernandez v. Bank of Nova Scotia, 2008 WL 4537817 (New York Supreme Court); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. v. Buchel, 565 F. Supp. 2d 245 (D. Mass. 2008)
  • Review of Keith E. Maskus (ed.), "The WTO, Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Economy" (2005), 36 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law [IIC] 997 (2005) (in English) [PDF]
  • The South Africa AIDS Controversy - A Case Study in Patent Law and Policy (2005) (with William W. Fisher) (in English) [PDF]
  • Artists and Copyright in the Digital Millennium (Working Paper) (2005) (in English) [PDF]
  • The Protection against the Circumvention of Technical Measures in Copyright Law from a Comparative and International Perspective, GRUR Int. 2005, 1 (in German) [PDF]
  • Review of William W. Fisher III, "Promises to Keep - Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment" (2004), UFITA 2005/I, 238 (in German) [PDF]
  • Private Use or Receipt of Stolen Goods? On Downloading Music and Motion Picture Files from the Internet, GRUR Int. 2004, 278 (in German) [PDF], cited in: Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decision 4A_433/2018 of 8 February 2019 (BGE 145 III 72), consid. 2.2.2
  • Attack on Digital Private Copying, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) No. 141 of June 21, 2004, 16 (in German) [PDF]
  • The Property Theory of Copyright Law (Nomos eds., 2001) (Ph.D. dissertation) (in German)
  • Swiss Employment Law, in: Employment Law in Europe 837 (Susan Mayne & Susan Malyon eds., 2001) (with Rudolf von Erlach) [PDF]
  • Conflicting Theories of Equivalence: 35 U.S.C. § 112, para. 6 in the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court, 40 IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology 163 (2000) (in English) [PDF]
  • The Year 2000 Computer Problem - a Legal Problem?, SJZ 94 (1998), 430 (in German) [PDF]