Another part of our day on Thursday was thinking about the law and law schools. On Monday evening, we had heard from Cochav Elykam-Levy, who is the chair of the civil commission
on the war crimes committed by Hamas against women and children. (And, while we were still in Israel, she was awarded the Israel … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Day [...]
WIPO negotiators appear prepared to approve a draft Broadcast Treaty that is no longer “signal-based” or limited to “traditional” (non-Internet-based) broadcasting.
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On Thursday, we focused on the aftermath of October 7th in a few different ways. One was recovery—how were the institutions and people of Israel moving forward in helpful
ways. Another was the law and law schools which I will cover in the next blog. And then, finally, how to equip students to come home… … Continue reading Israel [...]
Last week, Florian Mueller published a post on his new site ipfray, titled Grand Chamber of European Court of Justice takes patent case—question of cross-border jurisdiction.
The case at issue is BSH Haugeräte GmbH v. Electrolux AB, and although the questions referred date back to May 2022 and the case has already been heard by a regular [...]
As many of you know, Pace Law School, largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Pace Prof. Eric Bergsten, founded the Vis Moot competition more than 30 years ago. Prof. Bergsten
passed away last summer at the age of 92. I am passing along the below call for tributes to Prof. [...]
After coming back to Tel Aviv, we had our last day of the trip—day 4 of what already felt like a 4 week trip. No visit to Tel Aviv is complete today without a stop to the
courtyard of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now known as Hostages Square. We visited the art installations … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Four–Hostage [...]
On 7 and 8 November, the European Legal Studies Institute (ELSI) at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, is hosting a conference on “Enforcement of Rights in the Digital
Space”. [...]
In the middle of 2022, three significant AI text-to-image generators were made available to the public: Dall-E 2 (April 2022), Midjourney (July 2022), and Stability Diffusion
(August 2022). In addition to raising questions about ownership of outputs, infringement in training, and the future of copyright as a policy tool to encourage creativity, [...]
We have kindly been informed that a limited number of places remains available at the conference on Informed Consent to Dispute Resolution Agreements on 20 and 21 June in Bremen,
which we advertised a couple of weeks ago. [...]