Dr. J.P. Quintais
UvA Profile
João Pedro Quintais is Associate Professor at Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam. Starting with a focus on copyright law, his research agenda has developed along three research strands. First, he studies how intellectual property (IP) law applies to new technologies, from peer-to-peer networks, to streaming, hyperlinking, blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Second, he examines the implications of copyright law and its (algorithmic) enforcement on Internet users’ rights and freedoms, on creators’ remuneration, and on technological development. This third and currently main strand increasingly incorporates the legal and societal implications of regulating content moderation and generative AI (GenAI) models.
João’s current and recent research includes: an NWO Vidi grant (SSH) for the project “Generative AI Content Moderation: Regulation for Fundamental Rights” (2026-2031); an NWO Veni grant (SSH) for the project “Responsible Algorithms: How to Safeguard Freedom of Expression Online”; legal research leadership in the EU-funded Commons DB project on an EU Public Content Repository including AI training data; a project funded by the Lisbon Council on copyright territoriality and AI models in Europe; and a seed-funding grant from the Digital Transformation of Decision-Making (DTDM) project on Digital Trade Secrets. Earlier work includes leading a Work Package on content moderation on hosting platforms and its impact on access to culture for the Horizon 2020 project ‘reCreating Europe’; interdisciplinary projects for the European Commission tackling the challenges of AI to the IP rights framework and collective rights management in Europe; and an international project on the Right to Research in International Copyright Law.
João is Co-Managing Editor of the widely read Kluwer Copyright Blog, member of the European Copyright Society, member of the Management Team of the Digital Services Act Observatory, member of the Algosoc project on Public Values in the Algorithmic Society, member of the Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research (Working Group Human Rights in the Digital Age), Advisory Board Member of the Network for Empirical Legal Studies in Intellectual Property, Advisory Board Member of the NOVA Knowledge Centre on Intellectual Property & Sustainable Innovation (IPSI), and Member of the Editorial Board of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in AI and Procedural Justice (JUST-AI) at the University of Liège. He is also Senior Fellow at the Lisbon Council and Co-Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of Article 21, a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body under the Digital Services Act.
João is regularly involved in educational activities at UvA and abroad. He teaches across all levels and supervises BA, MA, and PhD research. He is co-Director of the Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab (ILP Lab), Coordinator for the Masters Course International Intellectual Property Law, and Coordinator of the IViR Summer Course on International Copyright Law and Policy. Outside the Netherlands, he has been a Visiting Professor at Católica Global School of Law (Portugal, 2023–2024), and has lectured at universities in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
João has published extensively in the field of information law. His publications can be accessed in the list below and in the following repositories.