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Engelberg Center Live!A New Global Copyright Order? The EU Directive in a Global Context (Episode 2)On today’s episode we discuss the range of questions that the Copyright Directive raises. While the possibility of global contagion of the EU Directive remains uncertain, we speculate on the (im)possibility of transplanting the licensing mandate of the Directive in the US context.As filters are promoted as a silver bullet to copyright enforcement, we ask whether they even work, and who they work against. We discuss the particular impacts on users and individual content creators that lose out most in this negotiation between institutional copyright holders and large UGC platforms.Our guests for thi...2020-07-2250 minEngelberg Center Live!A New Global Copyright Order? The EU Directive in a Global Context (Episode 1)On today’s episode we focus on what the final text of Article 17 requires in terms of its two-fold licensing and filtering mandate. The text has a series of broad progressive safeguards and exceptions, leaving a lot of room for interpretation. We discuss mixed signals (“a law that’s trying to be everything to everybody”), and the inevitable complexity of mandating automated tools within established jurisprudence around privacy and intermediary liability safe harbors. Will this directive hold up against legal challenges before the Court of Justice? As member states of the European Union implement this Directive, will they inter...2020-07-1550 min
Brand & NewDisrupting Trademark Law: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Social Media, and MoreJeanne Fromer, a Professor of Law with a specialty in IP at New York University School of Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy in New York, raises many thought-provoking questions about trademark law, technology, and society as a whole in this compelling interview. She gives us keys to better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies challenge our perspective on traditional legal concepts in today’s fast-changing world.Every two weeks, on Tuesday, Brand & New gives the floor to inspiring individuals, with 360-degree vision, to help brand owners, intellectual property lawyers, an...2018-11-3023 min