Working Paper 04-2021 July 2021 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… Read more » about Marcella Favale “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech, and Platforms”

Working Paper No. 03-2021 June 2021 In our information societies, we act, interact, and transact in environments that are located at various points on a spectrum running from offline (analogue) to online (digital). Typically, the more that we move away from offline environments, the more that technologies bear the regulatory load; and, concomitantly, the greater… Read more » about Roger Brownsword “Law, Authority, and Respect in Our Information Societies: Three Waves of Technological Disruption”

Working Paper No. 02-2021 May 2021 Covid-19 has wreaked destruction in many parts of the creative industries, especially in the performing arts. In the UK, the government has put in place various policy measures to protect artists and the arts and culture. This article charts the progress of the measures, using a basic classification to… Read more » about Ruth Towse “Covid-19 and Creative Industries in the UK – the Destruction of Creativity”

Working Paper No. 01-2021 February 2021 Copyright’s neighbouring rights have been the subject of several referrals to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In its judgment of 8 September 2020 in Case C‑265/19 (Recorded Artists Actors Performers Ltd v Phonographic Performance (Ireland) Ltd),  the Court has defined for the first time the… Read more » about Maurizio Borghi “The universal nature of performers’ rights under EU law”