Pedro Pina

Pedro Pina is a lawyer and a law teacher at the Technology and Management School of Oliveira do Hospital - Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. He holds a law degree from the University of Coimbra Law School and a post-graduation in Territorial Development, Urbanism and Environmental Law from the Territorial Development, Urbanism and Environmental Law Studies Center (CEDOUA) at the University of Coimbra Law School. He holds a master degree in Procedural Law Studies from the University of Coimbra Law School and the title of Specialist in Law granted by the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. Pedro Pina is a researcher at the SUScita – Nucleus for Research Center on SUStainability, Cities, and Urban Intelligence of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra.

Publications

Adoption of GDPR for Personal Data Protection in Smart Cities
Adoption of GDPR for Personal Data Protection in Smart Cities
Pedro Pina. © 2023. 18 pages.
The digital infrastructure of smart cities necessarily implies collecting big amounts of personal and its subsequent processing by software and applications designed to acquire...
Blockchain and Copyright: Challenges and Opportunities
Blockchain and Copyright: Challenges and Opportunities
Pedro Pina. © 2022. 21 pages.
Advances in the field of digital technology are constantly introducing new levels of controversy into copyright policy. Blockchain is the most recent technology with...
Copyright Issues in the Context of the Digital Library
Copyright Issues in the Context of the Digital Library
Pedro Pina. © 2020. 14 pages.
Libraries have a strong role on promoting culture and knowledge as intermediaries between creators and readers. In the analogical world, such usages didn't have relevant...
Digital Libraries, Copyright Limitations, and Access for Purposes of Subsequent Academic Publishing: Still Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
Digital Libraries, Copyright Limitations, and Access for Purposes of Subsequent Academic Publishing: Still Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
Pedro Pina. © 2020. 18 pages.
The chapter aims to analyse the current European Union legislation on digital copyright from the perspective of the public interest in scientific research, by studying the...
Digital Libraries, Copyright Limitations, and Access for Purposes of Subsequent Academic Publishing: Still Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
Digital Libraries, Copyright Limitations, and Access for Purposes of Subsequent Academic Publishing: Still Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
Pedro Pina. © 2017. 23 pages.
The chapter aims to analyse the current European Union legislation on digital copyright from the perspective of the public interest in scientific research, by studying the...
Free and Open Source Software Movements as Agents of an Alternative Use of Copyright Law
Free and Open Source Software Movements as Agents of an Alternative Use of Copyright Law
Pedro Pina. © 2017. 18 pages.
Digital technology produced a move from a performative model to a player-as producer paradigm since it has potentiated user-generated transformative uses of intellectual works....
The European Union Legal Framework on E-Health, Telemedicine, and Privacy
The European Union Legal Framework on E-Health, Telemedicine, and Privacy
Pedro Pina. © 2016. 11 pages.
A Cloudy Celestial Jukebox: Copyright Law Issues Concerning Cloud-Based Storing and Sharing Music Services
A Cloudy Celestial Jukebox: Copyright Law Issues Concerning Cloud-Based Storing and Sharing Music Services
Pedro Pina. © 2016. 22 pages.
Cloud computing offers internet users the fulfillment of the dream of a Celestial Jukebox providing music, films or digital books anywhere and when they want. However, some...
Copyright Issues in the Context of the Digital Library
Copyright Issues in the Context of the Digital Library
Pedro Pina. © 2016. 14 pages.
Libraries have a strong role on promoting culture and knowledge as intermediaries between creators and readers. In the analogical world, such usages didn't have relevant...
File-Sharing of Copyrighted Works, P2P, and the Cloud: Reconciling Copyright and Privacy Rights
File-Sharing of Copyrighted Works, P2P, and the Cloud: Reconciling Copyright and Privacy Rights
Pedro Pina. © 2015. 18 pages.
In cyberspace, copyright enforcement and privacy rights have become two clashing realities. In fact, with the arrival of digital technology, especially the Internet, right...
Computer Games and Intellectual Property Law: Derivative Works, Copyright and Copyleft
Computer Games and Intellectual Property Law: Derivative Works, Copyright and Copyleft
Pedro Pina. © 2013. 12 pages.
In the present chapter, the author briefly studies the particular tension between the current copyright paradigm, based on the dichotomy active creator – passive consumer, and...
Digital Copyright Enforcement: Between Piracy and Privacy
Digital Copyright Enforcement: Between Piracy and Privacy
Pedro Pina. © 2013. 14 pages.
Copyright and privacy are two fundamental values for a democratic society, since both enhance the development of each individual’s personality. Nevertheless, in cyberspace...
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Balance between Copyright, Digital Rights Management and Freedom of Expression
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Balance between Copyright, Digital Rights Management and Freedom of Expression
Pedro Pina. © 2013. 13 pages.
As a reaction to the challenges of digitization, recent developments of international copyright law are characterized not only by its strengthening and proliferation but also by...
The Private Copy Issue: Piracy, Copyright and Consumers’ Rights
The Private Copy Issue: Piracy, Copyright and Consumers’ Rights
Pedro Pina. © 2013. 13 pages.
Digital copyrights involve a combination of technology and law that seek to provide full control of the work by the rightholder. Managing rights over digital copyrighted contents...
Electronic Surveillance, Privacy and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights : A Digital Panopticon?
Electronic Surveillance, Privacy and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights : A Digital Panopticon?
Pedro Pina. © 2012. 16 pages.
In cyberworld, intellectual property rights and the right to informational self determination have become two realities in tension. Nevertheless, they are two main concerns of...
The Private Copy Issue: Piracy, Copyright and Consumers’ Rights
The Private Copy Issue: Piracy, Copyright and Consumers’ Rights
Pedro Pina. © 2011. 13 pages.
Digital copyrights involve a combination of technology and law that seek to provide full control of the work by the rightholder. Managing rights over digital copyrighted contents...
Digital Copyright Enforcement: Between Piracy and Privacy
Digital Copyright Enforcement: Between Piracy and Privacy
Pedro Pina. © 2011. 14 pages.
Copyright and privacy are two fundamental values for a democratic society, since both enhance the development of each individual’s personality. Nevertheless, in cyberspace...
Computer Games and Intellectual Property Law: Derivative Works, Copyright and Copyleft
Computer Games and Intellectual Property Law: Derivative Works, Copyright and Copyleft
Pedro Pina. © 2011. 12 pages.
In the present chapter, the author briefly studies the particular tension between the current copyright paradigm, based on the dichotomy active creator – passive consumer, and...
Electronic Surveillance, Privacy and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Digital Panopticon?
Electronic Surveillance, Privacy and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Digital Panopticon?
Pedro Pina. © 2011. 16 pages.
In cyberworld, intellectual property rights and the right to informational self determination have become two realities in tension. Nevertheless, they are two main concerns of...
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Balance between Copyright, Digital Rights Management and Freedom Of Expression
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Balance between Copyright, Digital Rights Management and Freedom Of Expression
Pedro Pina. © 2010. 14 pages.
As a reaction to the challenges of digitization, recent developments of international copyright law are characterized not only by its strengthening and proliferation but also by...