This was a working conference, with four panels preparing future Opinions by the European Copyright Society. Two open discussions reflected topical issues relating to the UK’s relationship with EU law and the evolving governance of copyright in the context of AI.

PROGRAMME

8:30 Registration

9:15 Welcome
CREATe Director, Prof. Martin Kretschmer
Vice Principal of the University of Glasgow & Head of College of Social Sciences, Prof. Sara
Carter; Head of the School of Law, Prof. Claire McDiarmid

9:30 – 10:30
Panel 1: Creatives
Unwaivable right of remuneration (Arts. 17/18 CDSM directive, streaming services, AI)
Cour constitutionnelle (Belgium): 13 questions to the CJEU
Prof. Séverine Dusollier (chair, Sciences Po Paris), Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz (IViR, University
of Amsterdam), Prof. Alain Strowel (Saint-Louis University and UCLouvain)

10:30 – 11:30
Panel 2: Sustainability
Stacking of rights, right to repair (Allposters case)
Prof. Martin Senftleben (chair, IViR, University of Amsterdam), Prof. Valérie-Laure Benabou
(Université Paris Saclay / UVSQ), Prof. Péter Mezei (University of Szeged), Prof. Ole Andreas
Rognstad (University of Oslo)

11:30 – 12:00 Tea/Coffee

12:00 – 13:00
Discussion: post-Brexit
“Is the UK taking CJEU jurisprudence too seriously?”
Prof. Jonathan Griffiths (chair, Queen Mary, University of London), Prof. Lionel Bently
(University of Cambridge), Prof. Estelle Derclaye (University of Nottingham)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00
Panel 3: Democracy
The relationship between public-sector information, freedom of information and
copyright (Public.Resource.org case)
Prof. Mireille van Eechoud (chair, IViR, University of Amsterdam), Assoc. Prof. Martin Husovec
(LSE), Prof. Caterina Sganga (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)

15:00 – 15:30 Tea/Coffee

15:30 – 16:30
Panel 4: Innovation
Lawful access, AI and Open source (LAION case)
Prof. Thomas Margoni (chair, CiTiP, KU Leuven), Prof. Axel Metzger (Humboldt-Universität,
Berlin), Assoc. Prof. João Pedro Quintais (IViR, University of Amsterdam), Prof. Tatiana Eleni
Synodinou (University of Cyprus)

16:30 – 17:15
ECS discussion with Prof. Alexander Peukert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) and
Prof. Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley), chaired by Prof. Martin Kretschmer (CREATe,
University of Glasgow)
The world according to the EU’s AI Code of Practice

17:15 – 18:00 Reception (ARC Foyer)