Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy 2024
In the first week of July 2024, the Summer Course on International Copyright Law and Policy took place in Amsterdam, which was also attended by the young researcher Laura Pipan from ODIPI.
The summer course on international copyright law and policy is organized by the Institute for Information Law (IViR). Young researcher Laura Pipan from ODIPI was awarded a scholarship by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) to participate in this intensive postgraduate seminar.
During the week, the following guest professors lined up: Martin Senftleben (University of Amsterdam), Daniel Gervais (Vanderbilt University), Elena Izyumenko (University of Amsterdam), João Pedro Quintais (University of Amsterdam), Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley) , Bernt Hugenholtz (University of Amsterdam), Remy Chavannes (Brinkhof), Severine Dusollier (Sciences Po Paris), Fred von Lohmann (OpenAI), Paul Keller (Open Future) and Sean Flynn (American University, Washington). With very interesting lectures and presentations, they showed both the fundamental features and innovations of copyright law, as legislation and policy in this area are constantly changing, mainly due to the constant development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, as well as legislative initiatives at the international and European level.
The participant gained insight into the most important current issues of copyright law, which were discussed from a comparative legal perspective and in the light of recent international and regional agreements.
“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?
On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.
Today, September 26, 2024, a specialist training for persons who will perform the role of data stewards or related profiles of data experts was organized by the Central Technical Library (CTK) at the University of Ljubljana as part of the SPOZNAJ project, at which Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič also lectured on the subject of open science and copyright.
At the end of this week, between September 26 and September 27, 2024, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will attend the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI”.