Damian Flisak

Damian Flisak

Year of birth

1977

Nationality

  • Polish

Languages

  • English
  • German
  • Polish
  • Spanish

Specializations

  • intellectual property law
  • media and new technologies

Professional certification

 

Website

attorney-at-law

 

Education

  • master of law, LL.M. (European University VIADRINA in Frankfurt n. Oder, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), Doctor of Laws (Ludwig and Maximilian University of Munich).

Professional career

  • Cooperation with Ringier Axel Springer Polska (2019 – 2023), publisher of press and online media (including Onet, Forbes, Newsweek, Fakt, Przegląd Sportowy) as an expert in new technology law (public affairs). Cooperation with numerous prestigious law firms (Wardynski & Partners, Hasik Rheims & Partners, also Gessel) in the role of a lawyer conducting disputes in the field of intellectual property law and new technologies, as well as an expert solving particularly complex legal issues.
  • Deputy legal director of Poczta Polska S.A. (2013 – 2016) and director of the legal department of the aviation company EADS PZL WARSZAWA OKÊCIE (2005 – 2006).
  • Board member of the REPROPOL collective management organization (2022 – 2023), long-time judge of the Internet Domain Arbitration Court at PIIT and member of its council (2022 – 2023).
  • Lecturer in intellectual property law (including procedural aspects) and new technology law with particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence at postgraduate programs at numerous Warsaw universities (ALK, IPN PAN, SGH, PJATK). He taught copyright law to judges at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution before the establishment of judicial departments for intellectual property cases.

Arbitration experience

  • cases related to domain disputes before the Internet domain arbitration court.

Publications

  1. Copyright, Advertising, and Infringement of Personal Rights in the Metaworld, in Metaworld. Legal and Technical Aspects of Disruptive Technologies, collective work, Warsaw 2022,
  2. Copyright and Related Rights Act. Commentary; redactor and one of the authors, Wolters Kluwer 2015, 2018,
  3. Multimedia Work in Copyright Law, Wolters Kluwer 2008,
  4. Urheberrechtsschutz im polnischen Recht. Eine Untersuchung anhand des Rechtsschutzes von Multimediawerken im Lichte des deutschen Rechts, Beck Verlag 2006.