Vladimir L. Entin
Advocate, Director of the Centre for Legal Protection of Intellectual Property · PhD in Law
Biography
Vladimir Entin holds two higher degrees and a PhD in Law. For more than ten years he carried out research at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences; from 1992 to 1994 he represented the Russian Intellectual Property Agency in France, the UK and the Benelux countries, then served as First Secretary of the Permanent Delegation of Russia to UNESCO (Paris) and taught at the Sorbonne.
He has practised at Klishin & Partners since 1998. Since 1999 he has also headed the non-profit Centre for Legal Protection of Intellectual Property, founded by Klishin & Partners, the National Association of Broadcasters, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
He is actively involved in law-making. He is one of the authors (with Yu. Baturin and M. Fedotov) of the draft laws “On the Press and Other Mass Media”, “On Mass Media”, “On Archives and Archival Affairs” and the Russian Law “On Mass Media”, and took part in drafting the Russian Law “On Copyright and Related Rights”. In 1991 he received the USSR Union of Journalists award for his personal contribution to press freedom legislation.
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court of Russia (civil law and private international law sections), of the advisory board of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, and a UNESCO expert on copyright and media law.
Full member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris (Académie internationale de droit comparé).
He teaches the special course “Intellectual Property in European Law” at MGIMO University and is an associate professor at its Advocacy Department. For a number of years he has lectured to master's students at the MGIMO Institute of European Law on the same subject.
Author of more than 120 academic works in Russian, English and French on the legal status of the media, copyright and related rights, including textbook chapters and practical commentaries.
Author of the initiative draft laws “On the Press and Other Mass Media” and “On Mass Media”, which became laws of the USSR and Russia.
He provided legal support for forestry concessions of joint ventures with British capital in the Tomsk Region and for the Flemings Investment Tu-204 project with Rolls-Royce engines. UNESCO expert on media and copyright law; expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences on intellectual property legislation.
Member of the Scientific and Technical Council of Rospatent and of the expert council of the State Duma Committee on Property.
Languages: English, French.
Books
“Copyright in Virtual Reality (New Opportunities and Challenges of the Digital Age)”. Statut, 2017, Monographs series.
Co-author of the textbooks “The Legal Profession and Advocacy” (2nd and 3rd editions) and “Advocacy Practice” (Statut).