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30 June – 4 July
Summer Courses 2025

See you soon!
27 June
IVIR Lecture Series

Reconceptualising individual autonomy in an age of digital manipulation?
Advanced LLM Technology Governance

A second cohort starts in September 2025.

IViR Summer Courses:

International Copyright
Law & Policy
Privacy Law & Policy

European Platform Regulation

IViR Summer Courses:

International Copyright
Law & Policy
Privacy Law & Policy

European Platform Regulation

Latest News

26 June, 2025

Kopenhagen en Aarhus keren Amerikaanse big tech de rug toe, Amsterdam studeert op vergelijkbare stap

News

De twee grootste gemeenten van Denemarken zijn hun samenwerking met Microsoft aan het uitfaseren vanwege het behoud van digitale soevereiniteit. Welke risico’s brengt de afhankelijkheid van een bedrijf als Microsoft met zich mee en hoe wordt hier in Amsterdam over gedacht?

6 June, 2025

Can we trust dating apps to find us a partner?

News

Dating apps have often replaced our mutual acquaintances as trusted matchmakers. But should we trust the tech companies behind them? Balázs Bodó untangles the spider web of trust in our digitalized society. Bodó sees a ‘systematic breakdown of trust in society’. He has recently been appointed as Professor of Information Law and Policy, with special emphasis on Technology Governance.

2 May, 2025

GiKii 2025 – Technology in its villain era – Call for Papers

Call for papers

Has technology’s slouch towards evermore and inevitable progress condemned it to live long enough to see itself become a villain? Should some tech (bros) have died decades ago so that they could be buried a hero? Or maybe the more things change, the more they stay the same…

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Upcoming events

September 10 - 12, 2025

2025 Annual Conference of EPIP – European Policy for Intellectual Property Association

Turning IP Ambitions into Action: Creating Connections, Collaborations, and Communities

Antwerp, Belgiumhttps://event.fourwaves.com/epip…
September 11 - 12, 2025

Gikii 2025

Technology in its villain era

Amsterdam, The Netherlandshttps://www.gikii.org/gikii-2025…
September 25 - 27, 2025

ELU-S 2025 Conference

European Law Unbound: What Kind of Europe Can We Reach For?

Prague, Czech Republichttps://europeanlawunbound.eu/an…
October 7, 2025

Benelux Merkencongres

Amsterdam, The Netherlandshttps://www.delex.nl/shop/opleid…
December 17 - 18, 2025

GenAI & Creative Practices

Past, Present, and Future

Amsterdam, The Netherlandshttps://rdt.uva.nl/genai--creati…
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Latest publications

A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers external link

Piasecki, S. & Helberger, N.
The Information Society, vol. 41, iss. : 3, pp: 173-194, 2025
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Little research has explored the process of procuring AI systems in the media from the perspective of contractual terms and conditions. It’s importance is underscored by the emerging regulatory framework coming from Brussels that embraces private ordering through mechanisms such as negotiations, instructions, and standardization. This article addresses the following research questions: How are journalistic AI procurement processes perceived by professionals? What are the practical and legal obstacles experienced in negotiating procurement conditions? How to improve media organizations’ contractual negotiation power? The study is grounded in 12 semi-structured interviews with members of media organizations (lawyers, technologists, and managers) and an analysis of 16 terms and conditions of companies providing AI systems. Based on its findings, it strives to propose a contractual counter-power for (especially smaller and local) media actors interested in using journalistic AI.

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2025.2473398
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2025.2473398

Artificial intelligence, Journalism

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A mid-year review of AI and copyright posts external link

Quintais, J.
Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2025
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  • https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/24/a-mid-year-review-of-ai-and-copyright-posts/

Copyright

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Editorial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the (Un)fairness of Artificial Intelligence external link

Starke, C., Blanke, T., Helberger, N., Smets, S. & Vreese, C.H. de
Minds and Machines, vol. 35, num: 22, 2025
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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-025-09722-3
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-025-09722-3

Artificial intelligence

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CommonsDB feasibility study, part 1 download

Keller, P., McCarthy, D., Posth, S., Quintais, J., Szkalej, K. & Margoni, T.
pp: 47, 2025
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This is the first part of two parts of a feasibility study for a public registry of public domain and openly licensed works. This registry – called CommonsDB – is currently being developed by a consortium consisting of Open Future, Liccium, the Institute for Information Law, Europeana Foundation, and Wikimedia Sweden as part of a European Commission-funded pilot project running from 1 February 2025 to 31 July 2026.

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  • commonsdb_feasibility_study_pt1

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Copyright, the AI Act and Extraterritoriality download

Quintais, J.
The Lisbon Council, 2025
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The Lisbon Council launched Copyright, the AI Act and Extraterritoriality, a timely new policy brief authored by João Pedro Quintais, associate professor, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam. As the European Commission is gearing up for a 2026 review of the directive on copyright in the digital single market and the code of practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI), the publication offers a legally grounded overview of copyright issues across the AI lifecycle – from data training to outputs – and an analysis of how the European AI act interacts with copyright law.

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  • The-Lisbon-Council_Copyright-the-AI-Act-and-Extraterritoriality
  • https://lisboncouncil.net/publications/copyright-the-ai-act-and-extraterritoriality/
  • https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5316132

AI Act, Copyright, extraterritoriality

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The Institute for Information Law (IViR) engages in cutting-edge research furthering the development of information law, and provides a forum for critical debate about the needs, interests, rights and freedoms of the information society

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