Publications
Irion, K.; Kaminski, M.; Yakovleva, S.
Privacy Peg, Trade Hole: Why We (Still) Shouldn’t Put Data Privacy in Trade Law Online
2023, visited: 28.03.2023.
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abstract = {A Response to Profs. Anupam Chander \& Paul Schwartz’s Privacy and/or Trade.
Some principles are not well suited for negotiation through the international trade regime. Or rather, the international trade regime has never been the right forum for negotiating or enforcing human rights. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) current approach to data privacy law both instantiates and illustrates this: it brackets data privacy as something trade law cannot well address, while illustrating the ways in which trade law superimposes its prioritization of trade liberalization atop other public values. Trade’s core framing prioritizes economic over human rights values. Beyond ensuring non-discriminatory treatment, trade law remains, in our view, the wrong place for both defining and enforcing rules on cross-border flows of personal data. Thus, while we welcome with open arms the thoughtful attention Professors Anupam Chander and Paul Schwartz pay to the current transnational struggle over data flows and digital trade, we cannot join in their optimism that trade law is the right forum for arbitrating it. },
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A Response to Profs. Anupam Chander & Paul Schwartz’s Privacy and/or Trade.
Some principles are not well suited for negotiation through the international trade regime. Or rather, the international trade regime has never been the right forum for negotiating or enforcing human rights. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) current approach to data privacy law both instantiates and illustrates this: it brackets data privacy as something trade law cannot well address, while illustrating the ways in which trade law superimposes its prioritization of trade liberalization atop other public values. Trade’s core framing prioritizes economic over human rights values. Beyond ensuring non-discriminatory treatment, trade law remains, in our view, the wrong place for both defining and enforcing rules on cross-border flows of personal data. Thus, while we welcome with open arms the thoughtful attention Professors Anupam Chander and Paul Schwartz pay to the current transnational struggle over data flows and digital trade, we cannot join in their optimism that trade law is the right forum for arbitrating it.
Hugenholtz, P.
Remuneration rights and national treatment Book Chapter
In: Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project, S. Frankel, M. Chon, G. Dinwoodie, B. Lauriat, J. Schovsbo (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Chapter 33, pp. 341-352, 2023.
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van Eechoud, M.
FAIR, FRAND and open - The institutionalization of research data sharing under the EU data strategy Book Chapter
In: Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project, S. Frankel, M. Chon, G. Dinwoodie, B. Lauriat, J. Schovsbo (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Chapter 31, pp. 319-329, 2023.
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Senftleben, M.
Expressive genericity revisited: What EU policymakers can learn from Rochelle Dreyfuss Book Chapter
In: Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project, S. Frankel, M. Chon, G. Dinwoodie, B. Lauriat, J. Schovsbo (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Chapter 24, pp. 246-257, 2023.
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Schwemer, S.; Katzenbach, C.; Dergacheva, D.; Riis, T.; Quintais, J.
Impact of content moderation practices and technologies on access and diversity Technical Report
2023, (D.6.3 Final Evaluation and Measuring Report).
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This Report presents the results of research carried out as part of Work Package 6 “Intermediaries: Copyright Content Moderation and Removal at Scale in the Digital Single Market: What Impact on Access to Culture?” of the project “ReCreating Europe”, particularly on Tasks 6.3 (Evaluating Legal Frameworks on the Different Levels (EU vs. national, public vs. private) and 6.4 (Measuring the impact of moderation practices and technologies on access and diversity). This work centers on a normative analysis of the existing public and private legal frameworks with regard to intermediaries and cultural diversity, and on the actual impact on intermediaries’ content moderation on diversity.
Dommering, E.
Annotatie bij Hof van Justitie van de EU 22 november 2022 (WM, Sovim SA / Luxembourg Business Registers) Journal Article
In: Nederlandse Jurisprudentie, iss. 6, no. 62, pp. 1048-1051, 2023.
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Quintais, J.; De Gregorio, G.; Magalhães, J.C.
How platforms govern users’ copyright-protected content: Exploring the power of private ordering and its implications Journal Article
In: Computer Law & Security Review, vol. 48, 2023.
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abstract = {Online platforms provide primary points of access to information and other content in the digital age. They foster users’ ability to share ideas and opinions while offering opportunities for cultural and creative industries. In Europe, ownership and use of such expressions is partly governed by a complex web of legislation, sectoral self- and co-regulatory norms. To an important degree, it is also governed by private norms defined by contractual agreements and informal relationships between users and platforms. By adopting policies usually defined as Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, platforms almost unilaterally set use, moderation and enforcement rules, structures and practices (including through algorithmic systems) that govern the access and dissemination of protected content by their users. This private governance of essential means of access, dissemination and expression to (and through) creative content is hardly equitable, though. In fact, it is an expression of how platforms control what users \textendash including users-creators \textendash can say and disseminate online, and how they can monetise their content.
As platform power grows, EU law is adjusting by moving towards enhancing the responsibility of platforms for content they host. One crucial example of this is Article 17 of the new Copyright Directive (2019/790), which fundamentally changes the regime and liability of “online content-sharing service providers” (OCSSPs). This complex regime, complemented by rules in the Digital Services Act, sets out a new environment for OCSSPs to design and carry out content moderation, as well as to define their contractual relationship with users, including creators. The latter relationship is characterized by significant power imbalance in favour of platforms, calling into question whether the law can and should do more to protect users-creators.
This article addresses the power of large-scale platforms in EU law over their users’ copyright-protected content and its effects on the governance of that content, including on its exploitation and some of its implications for freedom of expression. Our analysis combines legal and empirical methods. We carry our doctrinal legal research to clarify the complex legal regime that governs platforms’ contractual obligations to users and content moderation activities, including the space available for private ordering, with a focus on EU law. From the empirical perspective, we conducted a thematic analysis of most versions of the Terms of Services published over time by the three largest social media platforms in number of users \textendash Facebook, Instagram and YouTube \textendash so as to identify and examine the rules these companies have established to regulate user-generated content, and the ways in which such provisions shifted in the past two decades. In so doing, we unveil how foundational this sort of regulation has always been to platforms’ functioning and how it contributes to defining a system of content exploitation.},
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As platform power grows, EU law is adjusting by moving towards enhancing the responsibility of platforms for content they host. One crucial example of this is Article 17 of the new Copyright Directive (2019/790), which fundamentally changes the regime and liability of “online content-sharing service providers” (OCSSPs). This complex regime, complemented by rules in the Digital Services Act, sets out a new environment for OCSSPs to design and carry out content moderation, as well as to define their contractual relationship with users, including creators. The latter relationship is characterized by significant power imbalance in favour of platforms, calling into question whether the law can and should do more to protect users-creators.
This article addresses the power of large-scale platforms in EU law over their users’ copyright-protected content and its effects on the governance of that content, including on its exploitation and some of its implications for freedom of expression. Our analysis combines legal and empirical methods. We carry our doctrinal legal research to clarify the complex legal regime that governs platforms’ contractual obligations to users and content moderation activities, including the space available for private ordering, with a focus on EU law. From the empirical perspective, we conducted a thematic analysis of most versions of the Terms of Services published over time by the three largest social media platforms in number of users – Facebook, Instagram and YouTube – so as to identify and examine the rules these companies have established to regulate user-generated content, and the ways in which such provisions shifted in the past two decades. In so doing, we unveil how foundational this sort of regulation has always been to platforms’ functioning and how it contributes to defining a system of content exploitation.
Keller, P.
In: Auteursrecht, iss. 1, pp. 12-17, 2023.
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Meer dan drie en een half jaar na de aanname van de richtlijn Auteursrecht in de eengemaakte digitale markt (CDSM), en anderhalf jaar na de deadline voor de implementatie, blijft het effect van de meest controversiële bepaling ervan, artikel 17, grotendeels onduidelijk. Voor een buitenstaander is het nog steeds moeilijk om negatieve of positieve gevolgen te zien van de nieuwe aansprakelijkheidsregeling voor aanbieders van onlinediensten voor het delen van inhoud (OCSSPs), anders dan dat de overdreven beweringen dat artikel 17 ‘het einde van het internet zou betekenen of ‘de creatieve industrie zou redden’ onjuist zijn gebleken. In deze bijdrage wordt beschreven wat er met artikel 17 is gebeurd sinds het verstrijken van de implementatiedeadline. Wat weten we over nationale implementaties en de gevolgen daarvan voor platforms en hun gebruikers?
Hins, A.
Ongehoord Nederland! Underdog en waakhond. Journal Article
In: Ars Aequi, vol. 72, pp. 114-117, 2023, (Opinie).
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Hoeveel ruimte moet er binnen de publieke omroep blijven voor een omroepvereniging met een radicaal andere visie op goede journalistiek? Enerzijds is het de taak van de Raad van Bestuur van de NPO ervoor te waken dat alle publieke media-instellingen betrouwbaar, zorgvuldig en professioneel handelen. Daar staat tegenover dat Nederland een lange traditie heeft van ideologisch geprofileerde omroepen die elk hun eigen visie op de waarheid mochten verkondigen.
Keller, P.
Protecting creatives or impeding progress? Machine learning and the EU copyright framework Online
2023, visited: 20.02.2023.
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van Hoboken, J.; Quintais, J.; Appelman, N.; Fahy, R.; Buri, I.; Straub, M.
Putting the DSA into Practice: Enforcement, Access to Justice and Global Implications Technical Report
2023, ISBN: 9783757517960.
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Helberger, N.; Diakopoulos, N.
ChatGPT and the AI Act Journal Article
In: Internet Policy Review, vol. 12, iss. 1, 2023.
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It is not easy being a tech regulator these days. The European institutions are working hard towards finalising the AI Act in autumn, and then generative AI systems like ChatGPT come along! In this essay, we comment the European AI Act by arguing that its current risk-based approach is too limited for facing ChatGPT & co.
Dommering, E.
In: Auteursrecht, vol. 2022, iss. 4, pp. 219-227, 2023.
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toetsing heel verschillend kan worden aangepakt, blijkt uit de conclusie van de A-G en het Hof, die daarom tegenover de aanpak van het Hof wordt gezet (par. 4 en 5). Het artikel rondt af met een analyse dat de inzet van de zaak is vrijheid van meningsuiting, maar dat het resultaat is meer overheidsinvloed op de filtertechnieken die censuur moeten voorkomen (par. 6).},
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toetsing heel verschillend kan worden aangepakt, blijkt uit de conclusie van de A-G en het Hof, die daarom tegenover de aanpak van het Hof wordt gezet (par. 4 en 5). Het artikel rondt af met een analyse dat de inzet van de zaak is vrijheid van meningsuiting, maar dat het resultaat is meer overheidsinvloed op de filtertechnieken die censuur moeten voorkomen (par. 6).
toetsing heel verschillend kan worden aangepakt, blijkt uit de conclusie van de A-G en het Hof, die daarom tegenover de aanpak van het Hof wordt gezet (par. 4 en 5). Het artikel rondt af met een analyse dat de inzet van de zaak is vrijheid van meningsuiting, maar dat het resultaat is meer overheidsinvloed op de filtertechnieken die censuur moeten voorkomen (par. 6).
Trapova, A.; Quintais, J.
EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2022 Journal Article
In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2023.
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Dodds, T.; Vreese, C. de; Helberger, N.; Resendez, V.; Seipp, T.
Popularity-driven Metrics: Audience Analytics and Shifting Opinion Power to Digital Platforms Journal Article
In: Journalism Studies, 2023.
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As digital technologies have made their way into news production, allowing news organizations to measure audience behaviors and engagement in real-time, click-based and editorial goals have become increasingly intertwined. Ongoing developments in algorithmic technologies allow editors to bring their audience into the newsroom using specialized tools such as Chartbeat or Google Analytics. This article examines how these technologies have affected the composition of the audience and their power to influence news-making processes inside two Chilean newsrooms. Drawing on several months of newsroom ethnography, we identify how the pursuit of “clickable news” impacts editorial processes and journalistic priorities by changing the datafied audience opinion power behind news production. Shifts in opinion power, loss of control, and increased platform dependency may contribute to a concentrated media landscape. Our findings show that opinion power has shifted to a datafied version of the audience, raising new questions about platform dependency and editorial autonomy in media organizations. These results carry significant implications for understanding the chase for traffic in current multiplatform newsrooms and how this phenomenon impacts news production.
Seipp, T.; Helberger, N.; Vreese, C.H. de; Ausloos, J.
Dealing with Opinion Power in the Platform World: Why We Really Have to Rethink Media Concentration Law Journal Article
In: Digital Journalism, 2023.
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The platformised news environment affects audiences, challenges the news media’s role, and transforms the media ecosystem. Digital platform companies influence opinion formation and hence wield “opinion power,” a normatively and constitutionally rooted notion that captures the core of media power in democracy and substantiates why that power must be distributed. Media concentration law is the traditional tool to prevent predominant opinion power from emerging but is, in its current form, not applicable to the platform context. We demonstrate how the nature of opinion power is changing and shifting from news media to platforms and distinguish three levels of opinion power: (1) the individual citizen, (2) the institutional newsroom and (3) the media ecosystem. The reconceptualization at the three levels provides a framework to develop future (non-)regulatory responses that address (1) the shifting influence over individual news consumption and exposure, (2) the changing power dynamics within automated, datafied and platform-dependent newsrooms, and (3) the systemic power of platforms and structural dependencies in the media ecosystem. We demonstrate that as the nature of opinion power is changing, so must the tools of control.
Irion, K.; Es, R. van
In: Mediaforum, vol. 2022, no. 6, pp. 185-192, 2022.
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Helberger, N.; Drunen, M. van; Möller, J.; Vrijenhoek, S.; Eskens, S.
Towards a Normative Perspective on Journalistic AI: Embracing the Messy Reality of Normative Ideals Journal Article
In: Digital Journalism, vol. 10, iss. 10, pp. 1605-1626, 2022.
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Few would disagree that AI systems and applications need to be “responsible,” but what is “responsible” and how to answer that question? Answering that question requires a normative perspective on the role of journalistic AI and the values it shall serve. Such a perspective needs to be grounded in a broader normative framework and a thorough understanding of the dynamics and complexities of journalistic AI at the level of people, newsrooms and media markets. This special issue aims to develop such a normative perspective on the use of AI-driven tools in journalism and the role of digital journalism studies in advancing that perspective. The contributions in this special issue combine conceptual, organisational and empirical angles to study the challenges involved in actively using AI to promote editorial values, the powers at play, the role of economic and regulatory conditions, and ways of bridging academic ideals and the messy reality of the real world. This editorial brings the different contributions into conversation, situates them in the broader digital journalism studies scholarship and identifies seven key-take aways.
Fahy, R.; Voorhoof, D.
Freedom of Expression and the EU’s Ban on Russia Today: A Dangerous Rubicon Crossed Journal Article
In: Communications Law, vol. 27, iss. 4, pp. 186-193, 2022.
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In RT France v Council, the General Court of the European Union found that the ban on RT France in the EU did not violate the right to freedom of expression and media freedom, under Article 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Notably, the General Court sought to apply principles from case law of the European Court of Human Rights and international human rights law. This article argues that there are serious questions to be raised over the General Court’s reasoning in RT France, and the judgment arguably represents a deeply problematic application of European and international free expression principles.
Hugenholtz, P.
In: Gestaltung der Informationsrechtsordnung: Festschrift für Thomas Dreier zum 65. Geburtstag, Fischer, Nolte, Senftleben & Specht-Riemenschneider (ed.), C.H. Beck: München, pp. 161-176, 2022.
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ALLEA Statement on Open Access Publication under “Big Deals” and the New Copyright Rules Journal Article
In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2022.
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Flynn, S.; Butler, B.; Carroll, M.; Cohen-Sasson, O.; Craig, C.; Guibault, L.; Jaszi, P.; Jütte, B.J.; Katz, A.; Quintais, J.; Margoni, T.; Rocha de Souza, A.; Sag, M.; Samberg, R.; Schirru, L.; Senftleben, M.; Tur-Sinai, O.; Contreras, J.L.
Legal reform to enhance global text and data mining research: Outdated copyright laws around the world hinder research Journal Article
In: Science, vol. 378, iss. 6623, pp. 951-953, 2022.
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Seipp, T.
Book review: Media Freedom, by Damian Tambini Journal Article
In: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2022.
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Broeders, D.; Csernatoni, R.; Irion, K.; Kaminska, M.; Monti, G.; Robles-Carrillo, M.; Soare, S.; Timmers, P.
Digital Sovereignty: from Narrative to Policy? Book
EU Institute for Security Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Leiden University, 2022.
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Dommering, E.
Annotatie bij Hoge Raad 25 februari 2022 (Google) Journal Article
In: Nederlandse Jurisprudentie, iss. 37/38/39, no. 259, pp. 4708-4709, 2022.
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Handvest Grondrechten EU).
Dommering, E.
Annotatie Hoge Raad 3 december 2021 (Hoist Finance AB) Journal Article
In: Nederlandse Jurisprudentie, iss. 37/38/39, no. 258, pp. 4640-4642, 2022.
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Prejudiciële beslissing op voet art. 392 Rv. Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (AVG). Rechtsgrond verwerking persoonsgegevens in kredietregistratiestelsel BKR; recht op gegevenswissing; recht op bezwaar.
Quintais, J.; Appelman, N.; Fahy, R.
Using Terms and Conditions to Apply Fundamental Rights to Content Moderation Journal Article Forthcoming
In: German Law Journal, Forthcoming.
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Senftleben, M.
Compliance of National TDM Rules with International Copyright Law: An Overrated Nonissue? Journal Article
In: IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law , vol. 53, pp. 1477-1505, 2022.
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Dommering, E.
De lange schaduw van de Koude Oorlog in de kunst: over kunst, kitsch, camp en dictatorkunst Journal Article
In: De Nederlandse Boekengids, no. 6, 2022.
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Janssen, H.
Opinie: Commerciële datakluizen lossen problemen met big tech niet op Journal Article
In: De Volkskrant, 2022.
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Dobber, T.; Trilling, D.; Helberger, N.; Vreese, C.H. de
Effects of an issue-based microtargeting campaign: A small-scale field experiment in a multi-party setting Journal Article
In: The Information Society, 2022.
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Hins, A.
Goed bestuur en integriteit bij de publieke omroep Journal Article
In: Mediaforum, iss. 5, pp. 158-163, 2022.
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van Hoboken, J.; Buri, I.; Quintais, J.; Fahy, R.; Appelman, N.; Straub, M.
The DSA has been published – now the difficult bit begins Journal Article
In: Verfassungsblog, 2022.
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van Daalen, O.
Testimony for PEGA hearing on spyware and fundamental rights Journal Article
In: 2022.
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Irion, K.
2022, visited: 24.10.2022.
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van Daalen, O.
Opinie: Leg wettelijk vast dat experts onderzoek mogen doen naar gaten in cyberbeveiliging Journal Article
In: De Volkskrant, 2022.
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Rucz, M.
SLAPPed by the GDPR: protecting public interest journalism in the face of GDPR-based strategic litigation against public participation Journal Article
In: Journal of Media Law, vol. 14, iss. 2, pp. 378-405, 2022.
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NIT S.R.L. t. Moldavië (EHRM, 28470/12) – Het EHRM introduceert intern pluralisme Journal Article
In: European Human Rights Cases Updates, 2022.
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Quintais, J.; Trapova, A.
EU copyright law round up – third trimester of 2022 Journal Article
In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2022.
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Dommering, E.; Bruning, T.; Kruikemeier, S.; Smeets, H.; Maussen, M.
Moet fake news verboden worden? De toekomst van samen beslissen Online
2022, visited: 18.09.2022.
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Debat georganiseerd door NVJ & Arminius debatpodium.
In St. Petersburg staat een fake-news-fabriek die de Nederlandse samenleving ondermijnt op Instagram, Youtube en Tiktok. De Russische staatszender RT is naar aanleiding van de oorlog in Oekraïne door de Europese Unie verboden. Veel mensen zien fake news als een van de grootste hedendaagse bedreigingen van de democratie en regelmatig zijn er schandalen, zoals bij de Amerikaanse verkiezingen met Cambridge Analytica. Moet misbruik van de vrijheid van meningsuiting verboden worden? Wanneer is sprake van misbruik van de vrijheid van meningsuiting? En wie mag dat dan bepalen?
Parcu, P.L.; Brogi, E.; Verza, S. et. al.; Irion, K.; Fahy, R.; Idiz, D.; Meiring, A.; Seipp, T.; Poort, J.
Study on media plurality and diversity online Technical Report
2022, ISBN: 978-92-76-51323-0, (Report commissioned by European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, written by Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), European University Institute, CiTiP (Centre for Information Technology and Intellectual Property) of KU Leuven, Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (IViR/UvA), Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology, VUB- SMIT)).
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Sax, M.
Algorithmic News Diversity and Democratic Theory: Adding Agonism to the Mix Journal Article
In: Digital Journalism, 2022.
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Vrijenhoek, S.; Bénédict, G.; Gutierrez Granada, M.; Odijk, D.; De Rijke, M.
RADio – Rank-Aware Divergence Metrics to Measure Normative Diversity in News Recommendations Journal Article
In: RecSys '22: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, pp. 208-219, 2022.
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Lamoree, J.; Dommering, E.
In het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam heeft het eigen gelijk een ereplek gekregen Journal Article
In: Vrij Nederland, 2022.
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Quintais, J.; Mezei, P.; Harkai, I.; Magalhães, J.C.; Katzenbach, C.; Schwemer, S.; Riis, T.
Copyright Content Moderation in the EU: An Interdisciplinary Mapping Analysis Technical Report
2022, (ReCreating Europe, August 2022).
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Copyright Content Moderation in the EU: An Interdisciplinary Mapping Analysis Journal Article
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Irion, K.; Burri, M.
§ 16 Digitaler Handel (Handels- und Kooperationsvertrag EU/GB Handbuch) Book Chapter
In: C.J. Tams G. Kübek, J. P. Terhechte (Ed.): Nomos, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-8487-7188-2 .
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