Olga Simson
The head of the program, lecturer, doctor of law, professor at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, partner of IT and IP practices Law Offices of OMP
"Law is not an axiom, and jurisprudence is not a canonical science. The law must respond to the new challenges, which society throw to in the 21st century. It must be developed with new technologies and be modern, only then can we adequately protect human interests in the digital age."
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Since 2011, advisor at the Head of the State Agency for Science, Innovation and Informatization
- Since 2015, member of the Strategic Council of the Ukrainian Center for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnership
- Since 2016, member of the Coordination Council for Intellectual Property Issues at Kharkiv regional state administration, member of the legal and educational committees of Kharkov IT-cluster
- Since 2015, implementer and founder of educational programs IT Law, IT Security, Entrepreneurship and Law in Hi-Tech
EDUCATION
- In 1998 graduated with honors the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
- In 2001 defended candidate thesis on the topic "Legal features of investment contracts".
- In 2015 defended doctoral dissertation on the topic "Legal model of public-private partnership"
- Since 2017, Professor of the Civil Law Department No. 2 at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
AN EXPERIENCE
- Since 2001, teacher at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
- Guest lecturer at the National Polytechnic University "KhPI" and the National Economic University. S.Kuznets
- Senior Researcher of the Institute of Intellectual Property
- An expert of EU projects, USAID, the EBRD and the International Visegrad Fund on Innovation and PPP
- For more than 10 years, actively cooperating with state bodies, including the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (profile committees), CMU, MES, NASU on improving the legislation on scientific, technical and innovation activities.
- Partner of IT and IP practices Law offices of OMP
- Adviser of BA "Sheverdin & Partners"
- Since 2016, co-founder and director of the Institute of Law, Technology and Innovation
SPECIALIZATION
- Information and IT-law
- Intellectual property
- Innovations
- Investments
- Public private partnership
Research
IS THE PLATFORM RESPONSIBLE FOR MEMES?
An interesting question came to CLS recently from the developers of the meme-generating app: is the platform liable for copyright infringement in the context of the EU Directive on copyright and related rights in digital markets.
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The directive…
HOW TO ACT CREATIVES IN QUARANTINE?
On March 18, 2020, Law of Ukraine 533-IX “On Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine and Other Laws of Ukraine on Support of Taxpayers for the Period of Measures to Prevent the Occurrence and Spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)” entered into…
ABOUT THE INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS OF DIGITAL ART
Forever Rose - this work of digital art was sold two years ago for $ 1 million in terms of cryptocurrency. Currently, officially this work remains the most expensive digital art and belongs to 10 buyers at the same time. How is this possible?___While…