Voting in elections in the past used to be done with pen and paper. But over the past decades, countries have switched to electronic voting machines (EVMs). Already from the outset, the use of these machines has been heavily criticised by information security experts, concerned about the possibility of election fraud and the undermining of… Continue reading New report: The right to trust your vote: Cybersecurity, human rights and electronic voting
In April of this year, Open Future approached the ILP Lab to take a closer look at the legal status of the datasets produced by the European participants in the Google Books project.
The latest Opinion of the European Copyright Society addresses how the concept of pastiche applies to music sampling under EU copyright law, in the context of CG and YN v Pelham GmbH and Others, Case C-590/23 (Pelham II).
cybersecurity, Electronic voting, Human rights
Report{nokey,
title = {The right to trust your vote: Cybersecurity, human rights and electronic voting},
author = {van Daalen, O. and Hoekstra, N.},
url = {https://www.ivir.nl/nl/publications/the-right-to-trust-your-vote-cybersecurity-human-rights-and-electronic-voting/vandaalenhoekstra2024a/},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-12-05},
keywords = {cybersecurity, Electronic voting, Human rights},
} case law, Copyright
Case note{nokey,
title = {Annotatie bij Hof van Justitie EU 9 maart 2021, Hof van Justitie EU 22 juni 2021 & Hoge Raad 27 januari 2023},
author = {Hugenholtz, P.},
url = {https://www.ivir.nl/nl/publications/annotatie-bij-hof-van-justitie-eu-9-maart-2021-hof-van-justitie-eu-22-juni-2021-hoge-raad-27-januari-2023-stichting-brein-news-service-europe/annotatie_nj_2024_314/},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-12-05},
journal = {Nederlandse Jurisprudentie},
issue = {34},
number = {314},
keywords = {case law, Copyright},
} Report{nokey,
title = {Demonopolizing the European Public Domain: Google Books Exclusivity Clauses and the Open Data Directive},
author = {Arends, A. and Bont, A. de and Rosenberg, M.},
url = {https://www.ivir.nl/nl/publications/demonopolizing-the-european-public-domain-google-books-exclusivity-clauses-and-the-open-data-directive/241127_demonopolizing-the-european-public-domain/},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-11-14},
abstract = {This report is the result of a collaboration between Open Future and the Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. Open Future is interested in understanding the evolving landscape around the use of public domain and openly licensed works for the purpose of training Generative AI systems. One of the largest sources of such data are the digitization partnerships between a number of European libraries and Google that were launched from 2010 onwards. These digitization partnerships were controversial at the time because they contain clauses that ensure that Google enjoys an exclusivity period with regard to commercial use of the digitized works. As a result, Google has a privileged position when it comes to access to large swaths of the European public domain. In the context of the emergence of generative AI as a new technological paradigm, access to this data likely constitutes a signicant competitive advantage that is hard to reconcile with both the public domain status of these collections and policies aimed at providing a level playing eld for smaller and European AI developers. In April 2024, Open Future approached the Information Law and Policy Lab with a request to examine the legal status of the datasets produced by the Google Books project in regard to their exclusivity clauses.},
} cybersecurity, fragmentation, Internet governance, the netherlands
Article{nokey,
title = {The New F-word: The case of fragmentation in Dutch cybersecurity governance},
author = {Mirzaei, P. and Busser, E. de},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0267364924000980},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106032},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-11-15},
journal = {Computer Law & Security Review},
volume = {55},
number = {106032},
pages = {},
abstract = {The fragmentation of the Dutch cybersecurity government landscape is a widely discussed phenomenon among politicians, policy makers, and cybersecurity specialists. Remarkably though, a negative narrative is underlying the idea of fragmentation, suggesting that we are dealing with a serious problem. A problem that has the potential of impeding cybersecurity governance in the Netherlands. This research zooms in on how cybersecurity governance is organised within the central government, and which organisations are concerned with the creation, implementation, and oversight of cybersecurity policies vis à vis Dutch society. This article provides an overview of all central government organisations (de Rijksoverheid) that are involved in cybersecurity governance on a strategic level. This research provides the first step in doctoral research into the possible implications of the fragmentation of cybersecurity governance in the Dutch central government, and how this fragmentation could potentially impact policy creation, implementation, and oversight. Based on the mapping of this governance landscape, it set out to measure fragmentation based on the number of units or organisations that are concerned with cybersecurity governance in the central government on a strategic level. This study has found that based on Boyne\'s (1992) notion of fragmentation and the Dutch governments’ definition of tiers, the Dutch cybersecurity governance landscape could indeed, when meticulously following Boyne\'s counting procedure, be regarded as fragmented.},
keywords = {cybersecurity, fragmentation, Internet governance, the netherlands},
} AI Act, Copyright
Online publication{nokey,
title = {Copyright, the AI Act and extraterritoriality},
author = {Quintais, J.},
url = {https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/11/28/copyright-the-ai-act-and-extraterritoriality/},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-11-28},
journal = {Kluwer Copyright Blog},
keywords = {AI Act, Copyright},
}