Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, Kyushu University
Research Interests
- Information Transactions in the Digital Environment
- Copyright and Freedom of Expression
- Creative Economy and Innovation
- Fashion and Protection of Designs
- Territoriality Principle of Intellectual Property and Conflict of Laws
- Diversification of Cultural Expressions and the Role of the State
- Digitization of Archives and the Digital Museum
Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work
- Intellectual Property
- Art and Law
- Cultural Policy and the Law
Education
- LLB – The University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, 2000
- LLM – Harvard Law School, 2003
Appointments
- Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, 2000-2005
- Long-term Overseas Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property, 2002-2004
- Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, 2002-2004
- Associate Professor, Kyushu University Faculty of Law, 2005-present
- Member of the Working Team on Licensing and Use, Commission on Legal Affairs, Subdivision of Copyright, Council for Cultural Affairs, 2005-2008
- Research Fellow, Central Research Institute of Intellectual Property, Japan Patent Attorneys Association, 2005-present
- Working Group Member, Study Council for Promoting Translation of Japanese Laws and Regulations into Foreign Languages, Cabinet Secretariat, 2005-2006
- ASLI Fellow, The Asian Law Institute (ASLI), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 2007
- Member of the Working Team on International Rulemaking, Commission onInternational Affairs, Subdivision of Copyright, Council for Cultural Affairs, 2008-2009
- Member of the Investigation Committee on Preventing the Abuse of Patent Rights that Obstruct Industrial Development, Institute of Intellectual Property, 2008-2009
- Member of the Working Team on International Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, Commission on International Affairs, Subdivision of Copyright, Council for Cultural Affairs, 2009-2010
Representative Publications
- Ryu Kojima, Basic Considerations on Forms of Information Transactions: Focusing on Protection and Use of Information Goods in Cyberspace and Related Legal Disciplines (Entrusted by the Japanese Patent Office: Reported of the 2004FY Industrial Property Research Promotion Project, Institute of Intellectual Property 2005)
- Ryu Kojima, Information Transactions in a Digital Environment: From the Perspective of Intellectual Property Law, 11 Intellectual Law and Policy Journal 185-203 (Hokkaido University 2006)
- Ryu Kojima, Prior Informed Consent: An Intellectual Property Law Perspective, in Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property 309-316 (Toshiyuki Kono ed., Intersentia 2009)