Ivan Mijatovic

Born 1976 in Zurich (Switzerland).

Law studies at the University of Zurich.

Scientific associate at the Chair for Intellectual Property Law with Prof. Dr. R. M. Hilty. Since 2003 legal advisor for copyright law in the Swiss bank UBS.

Since 2003 Ivan Mijatovic is working on his dissertation under Prof. Dr. M. Rehbinder on the topic of “creativity” in copyright law, in which he analyzes how copyright laws repress or encourage creativity and which insights from creativity research can be transcribed into the concrete application of copyright law.

During his fellowship, Ivan Mijatovic has finished his dissertation and has developed questions concerning the influences of copyright law on the work of the artists living at Akademie Schloss Solitude.