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30 June – 4 July
Summer Courses 2025


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Vacancy:

Postdoctoral Research Position in Human(e) AI
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

8 July, 2025

NWO awarded research funding to Kristina Irion for her project ‘Artificial Secrecy? Transparency in EU Digital and Data Regulation’

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Kristina Irion’s research project won the SSH Open Competition M 2024 grant which funds free, curiosity-driven research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The project will explore the fundamental tension between secrecy claims and transparency needs in the context of EU digital and data legislation. This is especially evident in the digital ecosystem where the… Continue reading NWO awarded research funding to Kristina Irion for her project ‘Artificial Secrecy? Transparency in EU Digital and Data Regulation’

26 June, 2025

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

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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?

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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.

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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

Fashion Waste, Trade Mark Protection, and the Circular Economy: Towards a New Public Domain for Sustainable Reuse download

Senftleben, M.
The Handbook of Fashion Law, Oxford University Press, 2025, Oxford, pp: 115–136, ISBN: 9780198938897
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Traditionally, the debate on trade mark law and the public domain has focused on the strategic use of trade mark law to artificially prolong exclusive rights after the expiry of protection in intellectual property systems with a limited term, and the grant of trade mark rights covering public domain material, such as cultural signs and traditional cultural expressions. While the glamorous world of fashion offers examples of protection term extension and public domain re-appropriation cases, the following analysis focuses on fashion reuse in the circular economy as a phenomenon that can be placed in a public domain context. Considering the urgent need for measures to enhance legal certainty for sustainable fashion reuse in the circular economy, the question arises whether the time has come to discuss a limitation of trade mark rights and a corresponding broadening of the public domain. More concretely, it seems tempting to establish a new public domain by giving second-hand and unsold fashion items the status of freely available resources for sustainable upcycling and reuse in the circular economy—even if these fashion items bear protected third-party brand insignia. Exploring options for the practical implementation of this new public domain space, the analysis will yield the insight that the termination of trade mark rights is beyond reach. Alternatively, however, lawmakers and judges could consider introducing a robust principle of free reuse that shields initiatives leading to the sustainable reuse of trade-marked fashion items effectively against allegations of trade mark infringement.

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198938897.003.0006
  • Fashion Waste New Public Domain

Fashion, Freedom of expression, Intellectual property, public domain, trade mark

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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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