Erla S. Árnadóttir
Erla S. Árnadóttir joined LEX in 2000 but has practiced law since 1984. She is among the country’s leading experts in the fields of intellectual property law and information technology law.
Erla joined LEX in 2000 but has practiced law since 1984. She studied corporate law and copyright law at a postgraduate level at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law in 1983–1984, and was a grantee at the Max Planck Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht in Munich in 1988–1989.
Erla S. Árnadóttir is among the country’s leading experts in the fields of intellectual property law and information technology law. Among her instructions are preparation of agreements on the construction and distribution of software and on services in the field of information technology, protecting the interests of numerous companies and government agencies regarding the use of intellectual property, litigation of court cases due to breach of copyright and trademark rights, consulting for start-up companies of various kinds and advice on issues concerning protection of privacy.
Erla is a member of the Copyrights Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. She has been a lecturer in copyright law at the University of Iceland for several years and has written scholarly articles and been a lecturer on intellectual property rights.
- Supreme Court
- Appeal Court
- District Courts
- LEX2000-
- KPMG og KPMG attorneys1984-2000
- Supreme Court Attorney1994
- Attorney at Law1986
- University of Iceland, cand. jur.1983
- University of Iceland, examiner in information technology law 2004-
- University of Iceland, part time teaching in copyright at the faculty of law1997-
- Iceland – Health and Pharma Overview. OneTrust DataGuidance database. Co-author.2019
- Strejftog gennem den vestnordiske ophavsret. Nordiskt Immaterialt Rättsskydd, 85(4), 390 – 415. Co-author.2016
- Developments in Iceland since the XIV Nordic Copyright Symposium in 2015, Nordiskt Immaterialt Rättsskydd, 84(6), 594 – 5982015
- Immaterialrettens særlige processformer. In Mads Bryde Andersen og Jonas Christoffersen, Det 38. nordiske Juristmøde i København.2008
- Iceland. In Peter Schimanek og Frank-Rainer Töpfer, Remedies and Public Procurement Laws in Europe. (74 – 79). Berlín: Baker & McKenzie.2006
- Höfundarréttur og afdrif falsaðra myndlistarverka.2004
- Datenverarbeitung und Urheberrecht in Dänemark – die erste nordische Urheberrchtsnovelle im Vergleich, GRUR International Teil.1990
- Hugbúnaður: skilyrði og umfang höfundaréttarverndar. Tímarit lögfræðinga.1990
- Tölvur og höfundaréttur. Tímarit lögfræðinga.1985
- Copyright Committee, (alternate member from 1995)2006-
- Copyright Society, board member2006-
- The Icelandic Court Cases Review Commission, board member2018-2020
- Complaints Committee on Equal Status, board member (alternate member from 1997) 2011 – 2018
- National Gallery of Iceland, alternate board member2010-2012
- Society for insurance law, board member2002-2008
- The Industrial Intellectual Property Rights Board of Appeal , alternate member of the board of directors2001-2004
- Competition Appeals Committee, board member (alternate member from 1998) 2000-2009
- Educational fund of Icelandic Bar Association, board of directors1999-2018
- Ethics Committee of the the Icelandic Society for Information Processing, chairman of the board1997-2009
- Compensation Committee established under Act No. 69/1995 on state compensation to victims of crimes, board member1996-2006
- The Industrial Intellectual Property Rights Board of Appeal, chairman of the board 1991-2000
- Fjölís (RRO) Arbitration Tribunal1991-1993
- Icelandic Law Journal, managing director1990-1991
- Association of Icelandic Lawyers 1989-1991