Digital Rights

Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Digital Rights, Emergent Technologies.

A major discovery in the world of copyright and film has been unearthed by Principal Academic in Film and CIPPM Member, Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp. As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Claudy unearthed the evidence – that many have been looking for decades but have not been successful – identifying the… Read more » about Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration

CIPPM acquires an extensive computer law collection

Posted . Filed under Digital Rights, Focus areas, Uncategorized.

The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management is pleased to announce the acquisition of the private collection of grey literature, journals and books belonging to Stephen Saxby, formerly Professor of IT Law and Public Policy at Southampton University (1977-2016). Professor Saxby has a long history in the field, and was the first person in… Read more » about CIPPM acquires an extensive computer law collection

Working Paper 04-2021: Marcella Favale “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech, and Platforms”

Posted . Filed under Digital Rights, Emergent Technologies.

Abstract On the 16th of October 2020, a middle-school teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a terrorist who would not know of his existence if not for a number of videos posted on social media.[1] Yet, a law against publishing heinous content on line was approved in France on the 13th of May.[2] But in… Read more » about Working Paper 04-2021: Marcella Favale “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech, and Platforms”

CIPPM panel at the CPDP Conference 2021

Posted . Filed under Digital Rights, Emergent Technologies.

CIPPM / Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence has sponsored a panel at the 14th International Conference Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) “Enforcing rights in a changing world”, Brussels 27 -29 January 2021. The panel “Rethinking opennes in the context of Artificial Intelligence” will be held on Wednesday 27 January at 18:30 (CET). Chair: Freyja… Read more » about CIPPM panel at the CPDP Conference 2021