IViR Lecture

IViR is pleased to announce thatSean Flynnwill give a lecture entitledResearch Exceptions in Comparative Copyrighton Thursday 4 November 2021 Sean Flynn is Director and Professorial Lecturer at the American University, Washington College of Law (WCL).Sean Flynn teaches courses on the intersection of intellectual property, trade law, and human rights and is Director of the Program… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright

IViR is pleased to announce that Francesca Musianiwill give a lecture entitled“Infrastructuring” Digital Sovereignty?Russia as a Pilot Case of an Infrastructure-Based Sociology of Digital Self-Determination Practiceson Friday 29 October 2021 Abstract: Today, a number of high-profile initiatives across the globe (including the Digital Services Act in Europe, the “Great Firewall” of China, Russia’s “sovereign Internet”… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: “Infrastructuring” Digital Sovereignty?

IViR is pleased to announce that Professor Rupprecht Podszun will give an online lecture entitledRegulating Digital Gatekeeperson Friday 25 June 2021 Abstract: The power of digital gatekeepers keeps troubling markets – and policy-makers. At the European level the Digital Markets Act is planned as a new, ground-breaking piece of legislation to “tame the tech titans”.… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Regulating digital gatekeepers

IViR is pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Jeanette Hofmann and Dr. Bernhard Rieder will give an online lecture entitledTowards Platform Observabilityon Friday 28 May 2021 Abstract:“The growing power of digital platforms raises the question of democratic control or at least containment. In light of the transforming impact of platforms on markets, the public sphere,… Continue reading IVIR Lecture Series: Towards Platform Observability

Abstract of the presentation:“The memorandum, developed by 15 participants, is born out of the conviction that legislators will enact more informed and more adequate regulation is provided with independent, publicly funded expertise; cross-fertilisation between the academic and the political realm is urgently needed. With the memorandum, we would like to put a new copyright narrative up for discussion, both in the academic, and in the… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Copyright Law 2030 – A memorandum on the future of the creative ecosystem in Europe

On 6 November 2020 Gemma Derrick, Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, will give an online talk about her research on research culture and academic governance systems, entitled: The other side of excellence: failure, research culture and the role of academic governance systems Academic culture, knowledge production and the systems used to govern it, reflect a discourse… Continue reading IViR Lecture by Gemma Derrick on research culture and academic governance systems

On the Friday, the 25th of September, at 4PM CET, Sana Ahmad will talk about content moderation practices during our online IViR Lunch Meeting. Sana Ahmad is a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. She is currently writing her PhD on the outsourced content moderation industry in India… Continue reading IViR Online Lecture: Sana Ahmad about content moderation practices

The Institute is pleased to announce that Anton Ekker will give a lecture at IViR onFriday 27 March 2020 about the recent SyRI-case. On 5 February 2020, the District Court in The Hague banned the use of the SyRI algorithm system by the Dutch government. SyRI was used for profiling citizens to detect fraud with… Continue reading IViR Lecture: The SyRI-case: consequences for risk profiling and automated decision-making