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The Institute’s research projects cover a broad spectrum of issues
that are reflected in the main themes of the Institute’s
research program: general development of information
law theory, freedom of expression and other communication freedoms, privacy,
intellectual property, media law, telecommunications law, consumer information
law. The Institute conducts research in national, European and
international law, thereby benefitting from the international composition
of its staff as well as from its international network. Many of IViR’s
research projects involve co-operations with researchers and research institutes
from other disciplines, reflecting information law’s immediate relevance
to society, ICT and the information economy.
IViR is or has been involved in various large-scale
interdisciplinary research projects funded by the
European
Commission (for example,
The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy)
and the European Science
Foundation (for example, the HERA project ).
IViR also regularly
conducts ad hoc studies and reports
for a wide variety of national, international and European governmental and
non-governmental organizations,
including the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the
European Commission, the
European Parliament, the
European
Audiovisual Observatory, the Council of Europe,
the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Dutch Ministries of
Justice,
of Economic Affairs, of
Education, Culture and Science and of
Health, Welfare
and Sport, the Dutch National Regulatory Authority for the telecommunications
sector (OPTA), the
Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the
Broadcasting
Commission of Ireland, the Open Society Initiative (OSI) and
Creative Commons
Netherlands. The Institute, moreover, regularly attracts funding
from the
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
(for example, the Audiovisual
Consumer Law project).
As a rule, all research activities by IViR staff are directed towards publication
of the results thereof in (international) peer-reviewed journals
or similar publications. This rule applies to all forms of research carried
out under the name of IViR, including commissioned studies (’derde geldstroom’).
Prospective commissioners are informed that commissioned research is undertaken
in complete academic independence, and that studies will eventually be published
and converted into peer-reviewed publications. IViR does not engage in paid
consultancy.
IViR subscribes to the
Declaration of Scientific Independence,
as provided by the
Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Overviews of the main research projects currently conducted
by the Institute and of recently completed research can be found
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