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Eu © Society: Answer to the EC Consultation on the ‘panorama exception’
ECS submited its opinion on the ‘panorama exception’ to the Copyright Unit of the European Commission. The European Copyright Society (ECS) considers that the issue of Freedom of Panorama (FoP) should not be reviewed in isolation from the broader, necessary reform of the European copyright framework. The ECS regrets the disproportionate level of importance accorded… Continue reading Eu © Society: Answer to the EC Consultation on the ‘panorama exception’
EU © Society – the role of publishers in the © value chain
ECS submitted its opinion related to the role of publishers in the copyright value chain to the Copyright Unit of the European Commission. Its conclusion is the following: There can be legitimate debate about the changing nature of investments and business models by publishers. But this is not in itself a valid rationale for granting… Continue reading EU © Society – the role of publishers in the © value chain
Van Eijk benoemd tot lid van de KHMW
Prof. dr. Nico van Eijk is benoemd tot lid van de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW). De KHMW richt zich op het bevorderen van de wetenschap en het verbinden van wetenschap en samenleving. Zij doen dit door het uitschrijven van prijsvragen, het bekronen van wetenschappelijke prestaties en het organiseren van lezingen en wetenschappelijke conferenties.
Zie ook: Acht UvA-hoogleraren treden toe to Koninklijke Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
Sam van Velze wint Internetscriptieprijs 2015
Het Instituut voor Informatierecht is zeer verheugd te kunnen melden dat Sam van Velze, alumna van de onderzoeksmaster Information Law, de Internetscriptieprijs 2015 heeft gewonnen.
Haar scriptie, Communication to a New Public? A Critical Analysis of the CJEU's 'New Public' Criterion in European Copyright Law, werd begeleid door prof. P.B. Hugenholtz.
De prijs wordt op 15 april 2016 bij de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen in Haarlem uitgereikt.
Van harte gefeliciteerd Sam!
Dr. McGonagle appointed to new Council of Europe committee of experts
Dr. Tarlach McGonagle (Institute for Information Law, IViR) has been appointed to the Council of Europe’s new Committee of Experts on Media Pluralism and Transparency of Media Ownership. The main task of the Committee is to prepare a recommendation on these topics for adoption by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. The Recommendation will be addressed to the Council of Europe’s 47 member States.
The new expert committee will also “analyse best practices in Council of Europe member States with regard to policies and other measures ensuring a pluralist media landscape, transparency of media ownership, diversity of media content, inclusiveness in public service media, gender equality in media coverage of election campaigns”.
McGonagle, a senior researcher at IViR, was Rapporteur for a similar Council of Europe expert committee – on protection of journalism and safety of journalists (2014-2015). The draft recommendation prepared by that expert committee has been submitted to the Committee of Ministers for adoption.
Dr. McGonagle benoemd tot lid van een nieuw Comité van Deskundigen van de Raad van Europa
Dr. Tarlach McGonagle (Instituut voor Informatierecht) is onlangs benoemd tot een nieuw Comité van Deskundigen van de Raad van Europa inzake media pluriformiteit en transparantie. Het Comité van Deskundigen heeft de opdracht gekregen een nieuwe aanbeveling over deze onderwerpen op te stellen en ter goedkeuring voor te leggen aan het Comité van Ministers van de Raad van Europa. De Aanbeveling zal zich richten tot de 47 lidstaten van de Raad van Europa.
Het nieuwe Comité van Deskundigen heeft ook als taak het analyseren van best practices van de lidstaten met betrekking tot het waarborgen van de pluriformiteit, diversiteit en transparantie van de media, inclusiviteit in de publieke omroep en gendergelijkheid in verslaggeving over verkiezingscampagnes.
McGonagle, senioronderzoeker op het IViR, was in 2014-2015 rapporteur bij een soortgelijk Comité van Deskunigen van de Raad van Europa dat over het beschermen van de journalistiek en de veiligheid van journalisten ging. De opgestelde conceptaanbeveling van dit comité is ter goedkeuring voorgelegd aan het Comité van Ministers.
Verhuizing IViR – IVIR moving
Per 1 februari 2016 is het Instituut voor Informatierecht verhuist naar een nieuwe locatie:
As of 1 February 2016 the Institute for Information Law has moved to a new location:
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Nieuw postadres: New postal address: |
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Instituut voor Informatierecht Vendelstraat 7 1012 XX Amsterdam |
Instituut voor Informatierecht Postbus 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam |
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Institute for Information Law Vendelstraat 7 1012 XX Amsterdam |
Institute for Information Law PO Box 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam |
Promotie Hielke Hijmans
Op 5 februari 2016 zal Hielke Hijmans zijn proefschrift getiteld:
The European Union as a Constitutional Guardian of Internet Privacy and Data Protection: the Story of Article 16 TFEU
in het openbaar verdedigen.
Abstract:
In a developing information data flow in an unprecedented way, enabling mass surveillance by governments and private companies. It is no longer evident that the rights to privacy and data protection are guaranteed. However, these rights remain essential in our democratic societies under the rule of law. The EU Treaties have provided the European Union a specific mandate to ensure protection, in Article 16 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. This mandate is the subject of this thesis.
The thesis discusses the roles of different actors: the Court of Justice, the EU legislator, the national data protection authorities and their cooperation mechanism. A chapter is dedicated to the strategies of the Union itself in the global context.
The thesis underlines that the exercise of the mandate should be legitimate, in the sense that some democratic control is needed, and effective, meaning that individuals must benefit from the protection in practice. If the European Union manages to fulfil these two conditions, it shows its capability to properly deal with big societal issues, which is also important in a timeframe of widespread euroskeptics.
The thesis is the result of a research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Amsterdam. The author hopes to receive a joint doctorate at both universities.
Plaats: Aula van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Oude Lutherse Kerk, Singel 411, 1012 XM Amsterdam.
Tijd: 13-00-14.00 uur.
Promotoren: Prof. dr. N.A.N.M. van Eijk (UvA) en Prof. dr. P.J.A. De Hert (VUB).
Zie hier een samenvatting van het proefschrift.
See here a summary of the thesis.
Lunch talk Empirical Legal Studies Initiative (ELSI)
On Wednesday, 9 December, Dr. Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po, Paris) will give a talk on empirical legal research:
Incarceration policy and reoffending: insights from empirical economics
Time: 13:00 – 15:00.
Place: Room A009, Law Faculty, University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort 4.
This seminar connects law and economics by providing an accessible application of empirical techniques from economics to key concepts in legal policy. Specifically, we will study individuals' responses to expected criminal sentences, and discuss natural experiments in sentencing policies to evaluate how incarceration itself affects reoffending.
Lunch will be provided. No registration needed.
This lunch talk is part of the Empirical Legal Studies Initiative (ELSI). ELSI was developed by the ACLE Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics and the IViR Institute for Information Law, in collaboration with the CREED Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-making. The goal is to provide a platform for engaging in discussions about the opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls regarding the combination of normative and empirical research, and to exchange experiences and best practices. ELSI will organise seminars, workshops, and conferences and invites everybody at the law faculty to join our activities.
Daniel Chen (Harvard, Toulouse School of Economics) will give a talk on 3 February 2015.
The call for papers for the first conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE) at the University of Amsterdam on 21-22 June 2016 is now open. The keynote speakers are Jennifer H. Arlen (NYU School of Law), Ian Ayres (Yale Law School), Bernard Black (Northwestern University School of Law) and Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam). Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2016 (6:00 CET). For more information please see: http://celse2016.acle.nl/
PhD defence Lodewijk Pessers
On Friday 18 December 2015, Lodewijk Pessers will defend his PhD thesis in public. The thesis is called:
The Evolution of the Inventiveness Requirement
Place: Aula of the University of Amsterdam (Oude Lutherse kerk, Singel 411, 1012 XM Amsterdam).
Time: 13.00 – 14.00 hours.
Summary of the book:
This book follows the requirement of inventiveness (in patent law) in its historical evolution, that is, from the very first moment that we can distinguish its contours up to the present day. In doing so, it focuses on three aspects in particular: what are the historical phases that can be discerned in the requirement’s evolution? What are the socio-economic and political forces that have determined or influenced its course? And how can (dis)similarities between the jurisdictions under examination (i.e. the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands) be explained? For reasons of structure and overview, the book is divided into two parts. The first describes the evolution in its first three phases: the medieval, the mercantilist and the pre-modern ones. The latter is dedicated to the modern phase and pays particular attention to two different ‘schools’ that have developed in the 19th century and that continue to be relevant for the doctrine’s direction, even today. It will be argued that this dichotomy, that in this book is dubbed the qualitative – quantitative divide, has gradually merged into a hybrid approach that is rather qualitative in its appearance, but quantitative in its application.