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Human Rights and Intellectual Property Before the European Courts: A Case Commentary on the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights external link
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This unique reference work serves as a comprehensive guide to how Europe’s top courts – the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights – address the intersection of intellectual property (IP) and human rights. It traces the evolution of the courts’ jurisprudence in these fields and explores how human and fundamental rights including freedom of expression, freedom to conduct a business, and the right to a fair trial can influence copyright, trademarks, patents, and other IP rights.
Human rights, Intellectual property
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Intellectual Property and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: An Introduction download
Human rights, Intellectual property
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Tussen vrijheid en begrenzing: een juridische blik op kunst en cultuur – Verslag van de VMC studiemiddag download
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Op 20 juni 2025 vond de studiemiddag van de Vereniging voor Media- en Communicatierecht (VMC) plaats in de Openbare Bibliotheek in Amsterdam. De editie stond in het teken van het spanningsveld tussen artistieke vrijheid en juridische begrenzing. In een tijd waarin kunst en cultuur wereldwijd onder druk staan, werd onderzocht hoe nationale en internationale rechtskaders omgaan met culturele expressie en de bescherming daarvan. De middag bestond uit twee delen. Het eerste deel richtte zich op kunst en cultuur in een krimpende maatschappelijke ruimte, het tweede op de verhouding tussen recht en literatuur.
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Media law
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Freedom of expression and intellectual property external link
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Freedom of expression, Intellectual property
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Auteursrechtsectoren hebben de Covid‑19-pandemie goed doorstaan download
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Wat is de economische bijdrage van de sectoren in Nederland die direct of indirect afhankelijk zijn van het auteursrecht? Om dit in kaart te brengen, ontwikkelde de World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2003 een gestandaardiseerde methodiek. De afgelopen twee decennia hebben meer dan vijftig landen in totaal ruim zeventig studies uitgebracht waarin zij hun auteursrechtsectoren langs de WIPO-meetlat leggen.
Dit artikel bespreekt de meest recente Nederlandse studie in deze WIPO-onderzoeklijn, waarbij het ingaat op de ontwikkelingen ten opzichte van eerdere Nederlandse edities en andere landen en een verdiepende analyse geeft van de impact van de Covid-19-pandemie.
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Copyright, covid-19, economical aspects
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Trust and Safety: What’s in a name? external link
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Trust and Safety teams often carry a vision that sets them apart from other units within the tech industry. Using Giddens' structuration theory and Kroeger's take on facework as a guiding lens, we try to understand whether T&S can serve as a bridge between platform logic and public interest, between self-regulation and state regulation, harm mitigation and accountability. We are drawing on insights from semi-structured interviews with T&S professionals and arrive at two main observations. First, institutional "facework" is largely absent in practice. T&S staff lack the visibility, resources, and authority to enact their role meaningfully. Second, many companies are deprioritizing T&S. If taken seriously, however, T&S must be embedded with product design, business models, and institutional accountability. If the focus of these departments becomes performative legal compliance and the outsourcing of activities to offshore locations and machines, an opportunity to protect users and a democratic discourse may be lost.
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Content moderation, governance, Platforms, Social media, trust
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Editorial: Escher’s Relativity—Consumer Law as Surreal Staircase? external link
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Consumer law
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Commentary: Humble tools of divine intervention – The misunderstood role of algorithms in public opinion formation
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Social media companies and their owners offer these tools to control epistemic frameworks across different communities and networks. We must assume that they use them for their own benefit. This means that we need to somehow reframe ‘The Algorithm’ from being a free-floating, data- and profit-driven, but otherwise inert agent, into a tool which is used by its masters and their clients to control our symbolic spaces. The interplay, in contrast to what Gandini, Keeling and Reviglio are saying, is not between the ‘algorithmic systems and users’, but between those who design, operate and use these algorithms, and those who are controlled by them.
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algorithms, Social media
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Fashion Upcycling: The Problem of Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights and How to Solve it external link
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Fashion upcycling offers unprecedented opportunities for the sustainable reuse of clothing: using second-hand garments as raw materials for new creations, upcyclers can transform used pieces of clothing into new fashion products that may become even more sought-after than the source material. The productive reuse of garment components in upcycling projects is socially desirable in the light of the overarching policy goal to achieve environmental sustainability. However, the more individual fashion elements are protected by intellectual property (IP) rights, the more legal obstacles arise. Fashion items may enjoy cumulative copyright, industrial design and trademark protection. Accordingly, infringement claims may be based on multiple IP rights and upcyclers may have to rebut infringement arguments stemming from different IP domains.
Seeking to pave the way for large-scale upcycling initiatives in the circular economy, it is crucial against this background to develop robust defences that are applicable across different protection regimes. To achieve this goal, the rules governing protection overlaps should be recalibrated. As a corollary of the cumulation of different IP rights, rightsholders should be obliged to keep intact the checks and balances of each individual protection regime involved. Following this approach, only the smallest common denominator of exclusive rights – the scope of protection after subtraction of all forms of permissible unauthorized use – remains available. If upcycling is permissible under an exception to exclusive rights or the exhaustion rule in one protection regime, the rightsholder is obliged to ensure that overlapping rights in other IP domains do not stifle this breathing space. Practically speaking, this leads to the universal applicability of a defence for upcycling across the different domains of IP law.
Fashion, Intellectual property