Text and Data Mining: Articles 3 and 4 of the Directive 2019/790/EU
(with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko) in Concepción Saiz García and Raquel Evangelio Llorca (eds.), "Propiedad intelectual y mercado único digi…
Copyright and Fair Use
Algorithmic Enforcement Online
in Paul Torremans, ed., Intellectual Property and Human Rights (4th edition, Kluwer Law Int’l, forthcoming 2020), 709-744 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is incre…
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Robot v. Robot: Should AI Fight Fake News?
Tomorrow morning you get an audio message on your cell phone from The International New York Times: “Jerusalem: 1,400,000 New Coronavirus Cases!” Within minutes…
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Intermediary Liability 101: An Update for 2020
I've had a lot of positive feedback for the Intermediary Liability 101 slides I shared back in 2018, so I thought I'd post these updated ones now. They…
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Safeguarding User Freedoms in Implementing Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: Recommendations from European Academics
The implementation of Art. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (C-DSM) Directive is ongoing. In particular, the multi-stakeholder dialogue under Ar…
Reforming the C-DSM Reform: a User-Based Copyright Theory for Commonplace Creativity
A few years ago, Nellie Kroes warned that because of ill-adapted laws to technological development, “every day citizens […] across the EU break the law just to…
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Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts' Saga: Can You Sue Over a Copied Tweet?
"So is the "100 percent that bitch" line original enough to win a copyright suit? Experts aren't so sure. Ben Depoorter, a copyright law prof…
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Tulane Law School's Copyright Lab Leverages the dtSearch® Engine with Contegra Development Work for Durationator® Worldwide Copyright System
""dtSearch provided the tool to take on the challenge of searching the records," says Elizabeth Townsend Gard, creator of the Durationator projec…
How to License Article 17? Exploring the Implementation Options for the New EU Rules on Content-Sharing Platforms
Abstract How can the EU Member States license Article 17 of the new Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market? This is the central…
Monitoring and Filtering: European Reform or Global Trend?
Abstract This chapter of the Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability analyses the evolution of a trend towards the imposition of proactive monitoring…
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Copyrighting the 'Building Blocks' of Music? Why the Katy Perry Case Alarms Producers
"Professor Ben Depoorter, a copyright law expert at UC Hastings, points to another flaw in the system: he says that courtroom procedures in these types of…
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Fox News Faces Copyright Suit Over Ocasio-Cortez Photo
"Annemarie Bridy, professor of law at the University of Idaho, said in a direct message via Twitter, “At first glance, it does not appear that Fox has a cr…