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Summer Courses 2025

Registration is now open!
27 June
IVIR Lecture Series

Reconceptualising individual autonomy in an age of digital manipulation?
Advanced LLM Technology Governance

A second cohort starts in September 2025.
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IViR Summer Courses:

International Copyright
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European Platform Regulation

IViR Summer Courses:

International Copyright
Law & Policy
Privacy Law & Policy

European Platform Regulation

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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.

2 May, 2025

GiKii 2025 – Technology in its villain era – Call for Papers

Call for papers

Has technology’s slouch towards evermore and inevitable progress condemned it to live long enough to see itself become a villain? Should some tech (bros) have died decades ago so that they could be buried a hero? Or maybe the more things change, the more they stay the same…

11 April, 2025

IMLPP Podcast 2024: De groeiende bedreiging voor persvrijheid en ontwikkelingen in de strijd tegen SLAPPs

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SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) vormen een groeiende dreiging voor journalisten en de persvrijheid in Nederland en Europa. In deze tweedelige podcast gaan Wisse van der Lelij en Gabi Trogrlić, voormalig masterstudenten Informatierecht, in het kader van het vak International Media Law, Policy and Practice (IMLPP), in gesprek met Emma Bergmans en Jasmijn de Zeeuw van Free Press Unlimited.

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June 26, 2025

Benelux Merkencongres

Amsterdam, The Netherlandshttps://www.delex.nl/shop/opleid…
June 27, 2025

IViR Lecture Series: Reconceptualising individual autonomy in an age of digital manipulation?

  • IViR Lecture
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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…
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

The Harmonized Law of Streaming in the Eu – A Copyright and Related Rights Perspective download

Senftleben, M.
Copyright Law and Streaming: A Comparative Law Analysis of Lawful and Unlawful Streaming Services, Brill/Nijhoff, 2025, pp: 95-134
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EU law does not contain a distinct set of rules seeking to regulate various types of streaming services. Instead, the harmonized rules governing streaming services follow from individual pieces of EU legislation – ranging from rules on online broadcasting to a specific liability regime for platforms allowing users to upload and share content – and decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’). The following analysis, first, provides an overview of the exclusive rights that must be taken into account in streaming scenarios. This discussion also addresses the exemption of temporary acts of copying that may cover the reception of streaming content by users (section 2). Rights clearance questions occupy centre stage in sections 3 (general services, such as Netflix) and 4 (platforms for user-generated content (‘UGC’), such as YouTube). Section 5 raises the issue of content filtering obligations in the specific legal regime for on-demand streaming of content uploaded by users. Section 6 takes a closer look at copyright limitations that may become relevant in streaming cases, including private copying rules and the exemption of quotations, parodies and pastiches. Section 7 explains the remarkable extension of the concept of ‘communication to the public’ to the provision of streaming equipment for illegal content and infrastructures for illegal file-sharing. It also examines the legal framework for website blocking. In section 8, the results of the analysis will be summarized.

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004711525_004
  • Harmonized Law of Streaming in the EU

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Towards a European Research Freedom Act: A Reform Agenda for Research Exceptions in the EU Copyright Acquis external link

Senftleben, M., Szkalej, K., Sganga, C. & Margoni, T.
IIC, 2025
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This article explores the impact of EU copyright law on the use of protected knowledge resources in scientific research contexts. Surveying the current copyright/research interface, it becomes apparent that the existing legal framework fails to offer adequate balancing tools for the reconciliation of divergent interests of copyright holders and researchers. The analysis identifies structural deficiencies, such as fragmented and overly restrictive research exceptions, opaque lawful access provisions, outdated non-commercial use requirements, legal uncertainty arising from the three-step test in the EU copyright acquis, obstacles posed by the protection of paywalls and other technological measures, and exposure to contracts that override statutory research freedoms. Empirical data confirm that access barriers, use restrictions and the absence of harmonised rules for transnational research collaborations impede the work of researchers. Against this background, we advance proposals for legislative reform, in particular the introduction of a mandatory, open-ended research exemption that offers reliable breathing space for scientific research across EU Member States, the clarification of lawful access criteria, a more flexible approach to public-private partnerships, and additional rules that support modern research methods, such as text and data mining.

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-025-01604-6
  • https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5130069
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40319-025-01604-6

Copyright, open science, research exceptions, right to research, technological protection measures, text and data mining, three-step test

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Annotatie bij Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie 4 oktober 2024 (Maximilian Schrems / Meta Platforms Ireland) download

Dommering, E.
Nederlandse Jurisprudentie, iss. : 15, num: 111, pp: 2065-2067, 2025
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Verzoek om een prejudiciële beslissing krachtens artikel 267 VWEU, ingediend door het Oberste Gerichtshof (hoogste federale rechter in burgerlijke en strafzaken, Oostenrijk) bij beslissing van 23 juni 2021. Bescherming van natuurlijke personen in verband met de verwerking van persoonsgegevens. Online sociale netwerken. Algemene gebruiksvoorwaarden in verband met overeenkomsten tussen een digitaal platform en een gebruiker. Gepersonaliseerde reclame. Beginsel van doelbinding. Beginsel van minimale gegevensverwerking. Verwerking van bijzondere categorieën van persoonsgegevens. Gegevens betreffende de seksuele geaardheid. Gegevens die door de betrokkene openbaar zijn gemaakt.

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  • Annotatie_NJ_2025_111

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Annotatie bij Hof van Justitie van de EU 4 oktober 2024 (Koninklijke Nederlandse Lawn Tennisbond / Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) download

Dommering, E.
Nederlandse Jurisprudentie, iss. : 15, num: 110, pp: 2053-2054, 2025
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Verzoek om een prejudiciële beslissing ingediend door de Rechtbank Amsterdam (Nederland) bij beslissing van 22 september 2022. Bescherming van natuurlijke personen in verband met de verwerking van persoonsgegevens. Rechtmatigheid van de verwerking. Verwerking die noodzakelijk is voor de behartiging van de gerechtvaardigde belangen van de verwerkingsverantwoordelijke of van een derde. Begrip ‘gerechtvaardigd belang’. Commercieel belang. Sportbond. Mededeling tegen betaling van de persoonsgegevens van de leden van een sportbond aan sponsoren zonder de toestemming van die leden.

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  • Annotatie_NJ_2025_110

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Access to Justice and LLMs external link

Metikoš, L.
The Digital Constitutionalist, 2025
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The legal system can be a fortress. While anyone can freely read their country’s laws, much more is needed to grasp the complexity of the legal system. Lawyers train for years to gain the skills to engage with the law. Yet, LLM-based chatbots provide billions of people now with access to this, often almost esoteric, type of knowledge. Though far from perfect, LLMs have nevertheless produced a societal revolution in the provision of legal services and access to justice for years to come.

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  • https://digi-con.org/access-to-justice-and-llms/

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