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Dr. E. (Elena) Izyumenko

Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law
Faculty of Law
Information Law
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15514
    1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2025

    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2025). Freedom of expression and intellectual property. In Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886933.freedom.expression
    • Izyumenko, E., Senftleben, M., Schutte, N., Smit, E. G., van Noort, G., & van Velzen, L. (2025). Online Behavioural Advertising, Consumer Empowerment and Fair Competition: Are the DSA Transparency Obligations the Right Answer? Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 14(2), 46-59. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4729118 [details]
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    2024

    • Izyumenko, E. (2024). Intellectual Property in the Age of the Environmental Crisis: How Trademarks and Copyright Challenge the Human Right to a Healthy Environment. IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 55(6), 864-900. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-024-01478-0 [details]

    2023

    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2023). Designing a freedom of expression-compliant framework for moral rights in the EU: Challenges and proposals. In Y. Gendreau (Ed.), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2023). From internal to external balancing, and back? Copyright limitations and fundamental rights in the digital environment. In C. Saiz Garcia, & J. Lopez (Eds.), Digitalización, acceso a contenidos y propiedad intelectual Madrid, Dykinson.
    • Izyumenko, E. (2023). Freedom of expression as a rationale for IP protection. GRUR International, 72(9), 840–852. https://doi.org/10.1093/grurint/ikad071
    • Izyumenko, E. (2023). Ineffective investigation into making a book available for illegal download breaches copyright holder’s right to property, rules the European Court of Human Rights. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 18(4).
    • Izyumenko, E. (2023). Protection of intellectual property rights per Protocol No. 1 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ‒ Tokel v Turkey, Case note. GRUR International, 72(3), 317-324. https://doi.org/10.1093/grurint/ikac144

    2022

    • Izyumenko, E. (2022). Europe’s Human Rights Court rules for the first time on a breach of a copyright holder’s right to property in a private dispute. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 17(11).

    2021

    • Izyumenko, E. (2021). A freedom of expression right to register ‘immoral’ trademarks and trademarks contrary to public order. IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 52(7).

    2020

    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2020). Blocking orders: Assessing tensions with human rights. In G. Frosio (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intermediary Liability Online OUP.
    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2020). Shaping intellectual property rights through human rights adjudication: The example of the European Court of Human Rights. Mitchell Hamline Law Review, 46(3).
    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2020). The constitutionalization of intellectual property law in the EU and the Funke Medien, Pelham and Spiegel Online decisions of the CJEU: Progress, but still some way to go! IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 51(3).
    • Geiger, C., Frosio, G., & Izyumenko, E. (2020). Intermediary liability and fundamental rights. In G. Frosio (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intermediary Liability Online OUP.
    • Izyumenko, E. (2020). European Court of Human Rights rules that collateral website blocking violates freedom of expression. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 15(10).

    2019

    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2019). Freedom of expression as an external limitation to copyright law in the EU: The Advocate General of the CJEU shows the way. European Intellectual Property Review, 41(3).
    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2019). Towards a European ‘fair use’ grounded in freedom of expression. American University International Law Review, 35.

    2018

    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2018). Intellectual property before the European Court of Human Rights. In C. Geiger, C. A. Nard, & X. Seuba (Eds.), Intellectual Property and the Judiciary Edward Elgar Publishing.

    2016

    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2016). The role of human rights in copyright enforcement online: Elaborating a legal framework for website blocking. American University International Law Review, 32.
    • Izyumenko, E. (2016). The freedom of expression contours of copyright in the digital era: A European perspective. Journal of World Intellectual Property, 19(3-4).

    2014

    • Geiger, C., & Izyumenko, E. (2014). Copyright on the human rights’ trial: Redefining the boundaries of exclusivity through freedom of expression. IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 45(3).

    2025

    2024

    2020

    • Izyumenko, E. (2020). The freedom of expression perspectives on intellectual property in Europe. PhD Thesis, CEIPI, Strasbourg.

    2025

    • Meyermans Spelmans, E. A. L., & Izyumenko, E. (2025). Research Workshop Report: ‘The (Evolving) Human Right to a Healthy Environment: What Impact on Intellectual Property Laws?. Web publication or website, Human Rights Here.

    Membership / relevant position

    • Izyumenko, E. (2024-). Senior Member, Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR).
    • Izyumenko, E. (2022-). Certified Council of Europe Tutor, Council of Europe Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP).

    Talk / presentation

    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (16-4-2025). Intellectual Property, Sustainability and Environmental Protection, Lund University.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (8-4-2025). Intellectual Property and Human Rights: General Overview.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (8-3-2025). The European Court of Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Still Waiting for the New Innovation Frontier?, University of Technology Sydney.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (7-3-2025). The Human Right to a Healthy Environment – A New IP Law Frontier, University of Technology Sydney.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (6-3-2025). Trademarks and Freedom of Expression Through a European Lens: Approaches of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, The University of New South Wales .
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (12-2-2025). Intellectual Property and Environmental Sustainability: Trademarks, Copyright, Remedies for IP Infringement, and the Role of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment in All This, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (4-12-2024). Aligning Intellectual Property Protection with the Human Right to a Healthy Environment, IViR Workshop “The Human Right to a Healthy Environment: What Impact on Intellectual Property Laws?”, supported by the University of Amsterdam Law Faculty Research Strategic Investment Fund and the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, IViR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (7-11-2024). Human rights and upcycling: Conflicts with trademark and copyright laws, Webinar on “IP and the Circular Economy: The Case of Upcycling – part 1”, IPR University Center, Helsinki. https://ipruc.fi/koulutus-tapahtuma/ip-and-the-circular-economy-the-case-of-upcycling-part-1/
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (4-10-2024). Right to a healthy environment in information law, 20 jaar master Informatierecht – Conferentie “The making of evenwichtskunstenaars”, IViR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (26-9-2024). Freedom of Expression under the European Convention on Human Rights: Balancing Journalistic Freedom with the Right to Private Life.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (12-9-2024). Intellectual Property in the Age of the Environmental Crisis: How Trademarks and Copyright Challenge the Human Right to a Healthy Environment, EPIP 2024 Intellectual property and the future of the data economy, Pisa. https://epip2024.eu/
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (26-8-2024). The Human Right to a Healthy Environment and Intellectual Property Rights, Webinar on “The Right to a Healthy Environment (TRHE): Mapping the Nexus of Rights”, organized by the International Human Rights Law Interest Group of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) & Quintais, J. (speaker) (2-7-2024). Copyright and Human Rights, IViR Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy 2024, Amsterdam. https://www.ivir.nl/courses/icl/programme/
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (16-6-2024). The Non-Obvious Relationship: The Influence of the European Court of Human Rights on Intellectual Property Law, Symposium “Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws”, organized by the Business and Human Rights Working Group of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, with the institutional support of Tilburg University, Tilburg.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (12-6-2024). (Who Gets) Money from Streaming? Copyright and Author Remuneration in the Streaming Age, Annual Meeting of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, American University Washington College of Law,.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (23-5-2024). Intellectual Property, Sustainability and Environmental Protection.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (24-4-2024). Intellectual Property in the Age of the Environmental Crisis: How Trademarks and Copyright Challenge the Human Right to a Healthy Environment, Wednesday WEsearch, Amsterdam.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (11-4-2024). Intellectual Property and Human Rights: General Overview.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (2-4-2024). Intellectual Property in the Age of the Environmental Crisis: How Trademarks and Copyright Challenge the Human Right to a Healthy Environment, Centre for Business Law (ACLU - Affärsrättsligt Centrum vid Lunds universitet), Lund University. https://www.aclu.lu.se/evenemang/intellectual-property-age-environmental-crisis
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (2-4-2024). Intellectual Property, Sustainability and Environmental Protection, Lund University.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (9-5-2023). Trademarks as Speech in the Legal Sense, King's College London.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (3-5-2023). Intellectual Property Before the European Court of Human Rights, Lund University.
    • Izyumenko, E. (speaker) (3-5-2023). The European Court of Human Rights ‒ What Impact on Intellectual Property?, Lund University.

    Others

    • Izyumenko, E. (organiser) & Meyermans Spelmans, E. (organiser) (4-12-2024). The Human Right to a Healthy Environment: What Impact on Intellectual Property Laws?, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2024

    • Senftleben, M. R. F., & Izyumenko, E. (2024). Author remuneration in the streaming age: Exploitation rights and fair remuneration rules in the EU. Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series .
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