IViR is pleased and proud to announce that Balázs Bodó has been appointed, per 1 January 2025, as a full professor at IViR, to the chair ‘Information Law and Policy, with special emphasis on Technology Governance’.
Nieuws
Call for Creative Media Projects – Data Work in the Digital Economy
The University of Amsterdam is providing funding and support for new or early-stage creative media projects that unearth, explore, and critique the digital economy in India from the perspectives of the labour that supports and sustains it.
More Great Books Freely Available in ‘Information Law Series’ Archive
Following the successful launch of the Information Law Series Archive in September 2024, ten more volumes have now been made freely available online on the IViR website.
Vacature: Onderzoeker bij het IViR
Heb je recent je Master Rechten afgerond of rond je die binnenkort af? Heb je aantoonbare affiniteit met informatierechtelijke onderwerpen zoals intellectuele eigendom, platformregulering, gegevensbescherming, data governance, uitingsvrijheid of AI? Vind je het leuk onderzoek te doen naar actuele vraagstukken in deze domeinen? Dan hebben wij de perfecte startersbaan voor jou!
Kristina Irion joins advisory board of Center on Privacy & Technology
Kristina Irion has joined the advisory board of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law.
Vacancy: PhD Candidate Generative AI in the Media
The overall goal of this project is to study the role and implications that the new regulatory framework has in realising public values and influencing the power dynamics and legal relationships in the context of the development and use of generative AI models and systems in the media context, with a focus on AI-generated illegal and harmful content.
Mapping Data Work: Call for abstracts and proposals for an international workshop
We invite contributions to a two-day workshop that explores ‘data work’—tasks such as data labelling and annotation that are necessary for the creation and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI). This workshop aims to foreground the hidden human costs and epistemic questions involved in the development of datasets and AI systems, which often obscure the vast amounts of data and labour required for their construction and maintenance.
New report: The right to trust your vote: Cybersecurity, human rights and electronic voting
Voting in elections in the past used to be done with pen and paper. But over the past decades, countries have switched to electronic voting machines (EVMs). Already from the outset, the use of these machines has been heavily criticised by information security experts, concerned about the possibility of election fraud and the undermining of… Continue reading New report: The right to trust your vote: Cybersecurity, human rights and electronic voting
Report for Open Future on Demonopolizing the European public domain
In April of this year, Open Future approached the ILP Lab to take a closer look at the legal status of the datasets produced by the European participants in the Google Books project.
Opinion of the European Copyright Society on the CG and YN v Pelham GmbH and Others, Case C-590/23 (Pelham II)
The latest Opinion of the European Copyright Society addresses how the concept of pastiche applies to music sampling under EU copyright law, in the context of CG and YN v Pelham GmbH and Others, Case C-590/23 (Pelham II).