Dimiter Gantchev

Profile

A Visiting Professor at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies from 2024, Dimiter Gantchev is Deputy Director and Senior Manager in the Copyright and Creative Industries Sector of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Gantchev has been heading the creative industries program in WIPO since 2006 focusing on issues related to the economics of copyright and related rights, their contribution to economic development as well as the management of copyright by creators in specific creative sectors ranging from music, publishing and film to videogames and mobile applications. He has been in charge of research projects in WIPO on establishing methodologies for assessing the economic, social and cultural impact of copyright on the creative industries, creative industries data, and providing evidence for policy making. Under his guidance have been implemented over 60 research projects and published more than 20 guides on copyright management, creative industries and data. 

Mr. Gantchev is a national of Bulgaria. He holds a PhD in economics of copyright from the Sofia University of National and World Economy and an MA in international relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He is a Founding Member of the Bulgarian National Association on Intellectual Property. Mr. Gantchev is a member of the UNESCO expert group on revising the Framework for Cultural Statistics, he has been a member of the World Economic Forum Design Council and is a frequent speaker at international conferences and events. He teaches economics of intellectual property, creative industries, artificial intelligence and intellectual property and music business at various universities around the world. 

He speaks English, French, Russian, Swedish, Spanish and Bulgarian.

Research

Research Interests:

Economics of Intellectual property, creative industries, copyright, artificial Intelligence.

Publications

• Enhancing Economic Security through Intellectual Property, Journal for Strategies on educational and scientific policy, ISSN: 1310–0270 (Print), 1314–8575 (Online), Volume 32, Number 1s – Special Issue 2024, p. 38 -52 doi: 10.53656/str2024-1s-3-enh
• Economic aspects of artificial intelligence in the creative industries, Journal on Economic and Social alternatives, University for National and World Economy, Sofia, 2024, 1 issue, ISSN: 1312-7462, doi: 10.37075/ISA.2024.1.03
• Information challenges of the global publishing industry, Publisher, Scientific Journal Vol. XXVI, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN: 1310-4624 (Print), ISSN: 2367-9158 (Online), p. 39 - 56
• Intellectual Property in Mobile Applications, 2023, Publishing house “about the letters”, 2023, ISBN 978-619-185-612-1, p 37-61
• Intellectual Property and Competitiveness- a macroeconomic analysis, Journal Intellectual Property and Business, Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology transfer at the University of National and World Economy, issue 2, 2022, ISSN: 2815-3464, Publisher ZIP, p. 82-106
• Creative Industries in the Knowledge Economy, Publisher, Scientific journal, Vol. XXIV, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1310-4624, p. 39-52
• The economic performance of the copyright industries, Intellectual Property. Copyright and Related Rights, Intellectual Press, Moscow, Issue No 1, 2022, (in Russian and English) ISSN 0201-7059, p. 8-25
• Copyright and Economic Development, Chapter in El Derecho de Autor y su applicacion Nacional, Europea e Internacional, Fundacion SGAE (publisher), Instituto de Derecho de Autor, 2016 Madrid, p. 19-37, DL: M18403-2016
• The WIPO copyright framework: a basis for business and development, International Copyright and Intellectual Property Law, Challenges for Media Content Producers, JIBS Research Reports, No 2 2008-2, Jonköping, Sweden, ISBN 91-89164-88-1, p. 93-111
• The WIPO Guide on Surveying the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries, Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Volume 1, Number 1, June 2004, Madrid, ISSN 1698-1359, р. 5-17.