Improvement of EU Copyright Data

Programme Description

In the European Strategy for Data, the European Commission highlighted the EU’s ambition to acquire a leading role in the data economy. At the same time, the Commission conceded that the EU would have to increase its pools of quality data available for use and re-use. As this need for enhanced data quality and interoperability is particularly strong in the creative industries, this project examines avenues for the improvement of EU copyright data. Without better data, unprecedented opportunities for monetising the wide variety of creative content in EU Member States and making this content available for new technologies, such as artificial intelligence systems, will most probably be lost. The problem has a worldwide dimension. While the US have already taken steps to provide an integrated data space for music, the EU is facing major obstacles not only in the field of music but also in other creative industry sectors.

Research Consortium

The research project is a collaboration of, and jointly funded by, IViR, the Centre for Information and Innovation Law (University of Copenhagen), CREATe (University of Glasgow), Erasmus University Rotterdam and KU Leuven.

Workshop

On Thursday, 6 May 2021, an online workshop took place, based on this discussion paper:

Copyright Data Improvement in the EU – Towards Better Visibility of European Content and Broader Licensing Opportunities in the Light of New Technologies

Programme:
Get together and welcome
Copyright Data – Status Quo and Improvement Initiatives in the EU and the US Chair: Martin Senftleben, IViR, University of Amsterdam Introduction: EU Copyright Data Improvement, by Martin Senftleben Comment I: Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law School Comment II: Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa Comment III: One Broader Licensing Opportunity in the Light of New Technologies, by Philippe Rixhon, Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University College London Discussion
Need for Improvement – Content Recommender Systems Chair: Joost Poort, IViR, University of Amsterdam Introduction I: ”Responsible” Recommender Systems & Copyright, by Sebastian Felix Schwemer, CIIR, University of Copenhagen Introduction II: Recommendation systems: effects on equitable remuneration, fair value, cultural and media policy goals, by Daniel Antal, Reprex BV, Yes!Delft. Discussion
Need for Improvement – AI System Training Chair: Martin Senftleben Introduction: Thomas Margoni, KU Leuven Comment I: Text and data mining under a purposive view of the copyright infringement test, by Alain Strowel, University of Louvain Comment II: TDM and Collective Licensing, by João Pedro Quintais, IViR, Amsterdam Discussion
Incentives for New Initiatives – Costs and Potential New Trade-offs in the Data Economy Chair: Joost Poort Introduction I: Incentives for New Initiatives: Costs and Potential New Trade-offs in the Data Economy, by Christian Handke, Erasmus University Rotterdam Introduction II: Martin Kretschmer, CREATe, University of Glasgow Discussion Closing

Programme:

Get together and welcome

Copyright Data – Status Quo and Improvement Initiatives in the EU and the US

Chair: Martin Senftleben, IViR, University of Amsterdam
Introduction: EU Copyright Data Improvement, by Martin Senftleben
Comment I: Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law School
Comment II: Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
Comment III: One Broader Licensing Opportunity in the Light of New Technologies, by Philippe Rixhon, Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University College London
Discussion

Need for Improvement – Content Recommender Systems

Chair: Joost Poort, IViR, University of Amsterdam
Introduction I: ”Responsible” Recommender Systems & Copyright, by Sebastian Felix Schwemer, CIIR, University of Copenhagen
Introduction II: Recommendation systems: effects on equitable remuneration, fair value, cultural and media policy goals, by Daniel Antal, Reprex BV, Yes!Delft.
Discussion

Need for Improvement – AI System Training

Chair: Martin Senftleben
Introduction: Thomas Margoni, KU Leuven
Comment I: Text and data mining under a purposive view of the copyright infringement test, by Alain Strowel, University of Louvain
Comment II: TDM and Collective Licensing, by João Pedro Quintais, IViR, Amsterdam
Discussion

Incentives for New Initiatives – Costs and Potential New Trade-offs in the Data Economy

Chair: Joost Poort
Introduction I: Incentives for New Initiatives: Costs and Potential New Trade-offs in the Data Economy, by Christian Handke, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Introduction II: Martin Kretschmer, CREATe, University of Glasgow
Discussion
Closing

Participants:

Burri, Mira – University of Lucerne;
Cuntz, Alexander – Head, Creative Economy Section, WIPO;
Drazewski, Kasper – Senior Legal Research Officer – Consumer Law, BEUC;
van den Eijnde, Vincent – Director, Pictoright; President, European Visual Artists (EVA);
Flynn, Sean – Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law;
Fossoul, Virginie – European Commission, DG GROW;
Garkova, Inna – European Commission, DG EAC;
Giorello, Marco – European Commission, DG CONNECT;
Hol, Eric – Chief Information Officer and Director Licensing, BumaStemra;
Kabai, Eszter Kabai – CLO, Artisjus;
Landova, Tereza – Head of Licensing, Intergram;
Martens, Bertin – Joint Research Centre (Seville) of the European Commission;
Miks, Tomas – Deputy CO, SOZA;
Müller, Benoît – Director, Copyright Management Division, WIPO;
van der Net, Cyril – Ministry of Justice and Security, The Netherlands;
Özgen, Burak – General Counsel, GESAC;
Ormosi, Peter – University of East Anglia;
Paic, Alan – OECD;
Peukert, Christian – HEC Lausanne;
Scacco, Gianpaolo – European Commission, DG EAC;
Schmid, Matthias – Ministry of Justice, Germany;
Towse, Ruth – Bournemouth University
Vanderveken, Inge – Legal & International Affairs, SABAM;
Vuopala, Anna – Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland;
Woods, Michele – Director, Copyright Law Division, WIPO;
Wouters, Rodolphe – European Commission, DG CONNECT;