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Seed Grant Call: Datafied Warfare and Societal Resilience
Responsible Digital Transformations (RDT) is pleased to announce a new call for Seed Grant proposals, with a thematic focus on Datafied Warfare and Societal Resilience.
Who should decide what you may post online? : Inside the EU’s struggle to regulate AI content moderation
Can you post a deepfake of a politician on Instagram? Or use an artist’s music in your video? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. According to researcher João Pedro Quintais, clearer EU rules for AI-driven content moderation are urgently needed. ‘If we don’t regulate well, what we can post is left to companies that optimise for profit’, he warns. Quintais received a Vidi grant to research how the EU addresses the moderation of problematic content on digital platforms.
Podcast with Joris van Hoboken: Unpacking the Politics of the EU’s €120M Fine of Musk’s X
On Friday, the European Commission fined Elon Musk’s X €120 million for breaching the Digital Services Act, delivering the first-ever non-compliance decision under the European Union’s flagship tech regulation. By Saturday, Elon Musk was calling for no less than the abolition of the EU. To discuss the enforcement action, the politics surrounding it, and a variety of other issues related to digital regulation in Europe, Justin Hendrix spoke to Joris van Hoboken, a professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam, and part of the core team of the Digital Services Act (DSA) Observatory.
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LAION Round 2: Machine-Readable but Still Not Actionable — The Lack of Progress on TDM Opt-Outs – Part 2 external link
LAION Round 2: Machine-Readable but Still Not Actionable — The Lack of Progress on TDM Opt-Outs – Part 1 external link
Business-to-government datadelen via een derde. Onderzoek naar een generiek juridisch-technisch data governance raamwerk download
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‘Must-carry’, special treatment and freedom of expression on online platforms: a European story external link
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Digital Services Act (DSA), European Media Freedom Act, Freedom of expression, must carry, platform regulation
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Author remuneration in the streaming age – exploitation rights and fair remuneration rules in the EU external link
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Copyright, EU, exploitation, remuneration, streaming services
