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João Pedro Quintais
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Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Researching on Platform Regulation, intermediary liability, content moderation and intellectual property (mostly copyright).

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IViR is very happy and proud to announce that Dr. João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social was awarded with a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Congratulations João Pedro! 🥳
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Vidi grant for Dr. João Pedro Quintais - IVIR
IViR is proud to announce that Dr. João Pedro Quintais has received a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his research into generative AI content moderation.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨
Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working with @jpquintais.bsky.social, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social.
📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025. 🔗 More info: http://bit.ly/47flgcR @ivir-uva.bsky.social
Vacancy — PhD Candidate Law - Generative AI in the Media
The overall goal of this project is to study the role and implications that the new regulatory framework has in realising public values and influencing the power dynamics and legal relationships in the context of the development and use of generative AI models and systems in the media context, with a focus on AI-generated illegal and harmful content.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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EU copyright law roundup – second and third trimester of 2025, by @alinatrapova.bsky.social and me on Kluwer Copyright Blog
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EU copyright law roundup – second and third trimester of 2025
Following our platform update and the summer break, one may think we stopped our roundup series. Rest assured – we are here! This edition combines the second and third trimesters, so it will be longer...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨

Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social

📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
 
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Vacancy — PhD Candidate Law - Generative AI in the Media
The overall goal of this project is to study the role and implications that the new regulatory framework has in realising public values and influencing the power dynamics and legal relationships in th...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Are the European TDM Exceptions Applicable to GenAI Training? Despite the Three-Step Test? By Martin Senftleben on the Kluwer Copyright Blog
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Are the European TDM Exceptions Applicable to GenAI Training? Despite the Three-Step Test?
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October 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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📢 Come work with us! We have a postdoc and PhD position for the Artificial Secrecy project. Deadline: October 17th. More info:
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Artificial secrecy: Taking Transparency in EU Digital and Data Regulation Seriously - IVIR
Kristina Irion’s research project won the SSH Open Competition M 2024 grant which funds free, curiosity-driven research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The project will explore the fundamental ...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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NEW: Preparations for the EU’s code of practice on labelling AI-generated content are moving forward. While no launch date has been set, the preliminary results of technical studies meant to inform the code will be discussed at a workshop next week.
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AI providers see preparatory work for EU code of practice on content labeling | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Leading AI companies have been presented with the preliminary findings of expert reports that will inform a voluntary EU code of practice on labelling AI-generated content under the AI Act. The studie...
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August 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Why the (c) Statute Is Not Enough: How the Restatement Relies on Both Statute & Caselaw to Clarify U.S. Copyright Law, by @danielgervais.bsky.social, L. Loren, R. A. Reese, @cjsprigman.bsky.social & @mollysvh.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Why the Copyright Statute Is Not Enough: How the Restatement Relies on Both Statute and Caselaw to Clarify U.S. Copyright Law
In a previous blog post, we explained how the Restatement of the Law, Copyright was prepared, how it is structured, and how it was approved as of May by the membership of the American Law Institute (A...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Deepfake Bills in Denmark and the Netherlands: Right idea, wrong legal framework, by Bernt Hugenholtz on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Deepfake Bills in Denmark and the Netherlands: Right idea, wrong legal framework.
Deepfakes are flooding the internet. Thanks to generative AI, politicians say things on camera they never said, celebrities star in porn clips they never dreamt about, and the Pope dons a puffer jacke...
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August 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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An EU Copyright Framework for Research: Opinion of the European Copyright Society, by Caterina Sganga, Christophe Geiger, Thomas Margoni, Martin Senftleben & Mireille van Eechoud on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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August 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Restating Copyright: The ALI’s Landmark Project and What It Means for the Law, by @danielgervais.bsky.social, Lydia Loren, R. Anthony Reese, @cjsprigman.bsky.social & @mollysvh.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Restating Copyright: The ALI’s Landmark Project and What It Means for the Law
In May 2025, the membership of the American Law Institute (ALI) completed a milestone in our understanding and interpretation of U.S. copyright law: the approval of its first-ever Restatement of the L...
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July 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Copyright as a Freedom of (Artistic) Expression Right? The Dangers and Human Rights Law Misconceptions in the AG’s Opinion in Pelham II, by Elena Izyumenko (@ivir-uva.bsky.social) on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Copyright as a Freedom of (Artistic) Expression Right? The Dangers and Human Rights Law Misconceptions in the AG’s Opinion in Pelham II
Following up on the initial comment by Sabines Jacques published on this blog about Advocate General (AG) Emiliou’s recent Opinion in the Pelham II case – which examined his interpretation of the past...
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July 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe? by @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?
More than forty copyright-related lawsuits have been filed in U.S. courts against developers of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) systems. The most common complaint is that the developers inf...
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July 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Our summer courses have kicked off today and indeed, summer it is in Amsterdam!🌞We hope everyone will enjoy the sessions in the different courses on Copyright, Privacy and Platform Regulation. Stay cool!
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June 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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The first part of CommonsDB Feasibility Study—by @paulk.bsky.social, @culturedoug.bsky.social, @posth.me, @jpquintais.bsky.social, @theflyinglawyer.bsky.social, and Thomas Margon—anticipates launching the first public version of the registry after summer.

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CommonsDB Feasibility Study: Building the Future of Digital Commons – Open Future
This study outlines how CommonsDB is creating a registry of Public Domain and openly licensed works to improve legal certainty when reusing digital content.
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June 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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📝"A mid-year review of AI and copyright posts", a short roundup of some great contributions we have had on this topic in 2025

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A mid-year review of AI and copyright posts - Kluwer Copyright Blog
The role of copyright rules in the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate legal discussions in 2025. With new case law, legislative initiatives, and regulatory developments u...
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June 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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📢 "Copyright, the AI Act and Extraterritoriality", check out the policy brief I wrote for The Lisbon Council

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June 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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new article in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social on the concept of systemic risks in the DSA. what does it mean that we think of all kinds of social issues linked to online platforms as 'risks' to be managed? find out this way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Governing platforms through corporate risk management: the politics of systemic risk in the Digital Services Act | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Governing platforms through corporate risk management: the politics of systemic risk in the Digital Services Act
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June 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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New blog post: The recent #CJEU referral is a poor test case for clarifying how the EU #copyright framework applies to AI training. The underlying dispute concerns the use of content with a trained model (RAG), not the training process itself. copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/05/28/d...
Do AI models dream of dolphins in lake Balaton? - Kluwer Copyright Blog
There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that directly addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the EU copyright framework. The...
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May 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Gikii 2025 in lovely Amsterdam has extended its CfP till May 31. Sept 11-12 th at IViR. Get your geek on and set your geek clogs tapping! No i don’t know what i mean either 😂 www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...
Gikii 2025: Amsterdam CfP
GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 11-12 September 2025 Technology in its villain era Has technology’s slouch towards everm…
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May 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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📢 New publication: "A new liability paradigm for online platforms in EU copyright law"

📝 Open access here: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
📄 Also on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Governance of Digital Single Market Actors
"Governance of Digital Single Market Actors" published on 01 May 2025 by Edward Elgar Publishing.
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May 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Slightly overdue, but here comes the first #roundup of 2025 which we post regularly with @jpquintais.bsky.social at the #KluwerCopyrightBlog. The EU courts have issued just one judgment in this trimester, but to make up for it, there have been several interesting policy initiatives.
EU copyright law roundup – first trimester of 2025 - Kluwer Copyright Blog
Slightly overdue, but here comes the first roundup of 2025. The EU courts have issued just one judgment in this trimester, but to make up for it, there have been several interesting policy initiatives...
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April 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Get ready and get creative for the upcoming edition of GiKii "Technology in its villain era?" bringing together law, technology and popular culture from angles you never thought of before. Happening in Amsterdam (hybrid also possible) on 11-12/09/25!
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Gikii 2025: Amsterdam CfP
GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 11-12 September 2025 Technology in its villain era Has technology’s slouch towards everm…
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April 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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German Federal Supreme Court reject copyright protection for Birkenstock sandals, by @bjjuette.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog
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German Federal Supreme Court reject copyright protection for Birkenstock sandals. - Kluwer Copyright Blog
In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. The ruling clarifies the scope of protection under...
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March 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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📘 New Book! The 4th Edition of Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights is now out!

Co-edited by @danielgervais.bsky.social Gervais and myself, and w/ 18 chapters by leading experts on the topic
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March 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM