Conflict and Trust in the European Copyright System

2024 European Copyright Society Conference

The European Copyright Society (la Société européenne du droit d’auteur) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law and policy. Its members are scholars and academics from various countries of Europe, seeking to articulate and promote their views of the overall public interest on all topics in the field of authors rights, neighbouring rights and related matters. The Society is neither funded nor instructed by any particular stakeholders. The 2024 ECS conference will address current conflicts over the scope and enforcement of European copyright law, and look for ways to resolve these conflicts in a trustworthy manner and with a balanced outcome. The first session will focus on the role of copyright in the data economy, in particular the impact of copyright on data access rights. In the second session, Thomas Koch, the presiding judge of the copyright senate of the Bundesgerichtshof, will give a keynote speech on the cooperation between the Bundesgerichtshof and the CJEU in the application and interpretation of EU copyright law. How does judicial cooperation work in practice, and is it characterised by mutual trust? The third session is dedicated to copyright in the platform economy. Does the current legal regime ensure fair remuneration for authors? Can “trusted content creators” and “trusted metadata” improve the current situation? Finally, the fourth session will look at European copyright from the perspective of sustainable development and human rights.

Conference fees: 150,00 € (standard fee) 50,00 € (academics) Registration via this link.

Further information is available on the conference website.

Program

08:30   
Registration

​​​09:00   
Welcome by Alexander Peukert, Chair of ECS

09:15-10:45
Session 1: Copyright, the Data Economy and Data Access 90 Min
Ole-Andreas Rognstad: Data Ownership Ambiguity – A Trust Problem (20 min)
Martin Kretschmer/Thomas Margoni (ECS guest)/Tatiana Eleni Synodinou: The Paradox of Lawful Access (20 min)
Mireille van Eechoud: Does the Data Economy Call for Unitary Copyright? (20 min)
Q&A (30 min)

10:45-11:15   
Coffee Break

11:15-12:30
Session 2: Trust or Conflict Between National Courts and the CJEU? (75 min)
Thomas Koch: A Perspective from the Bundesgerichtshof (30 min)
Estelle Derclaye: A Perspective from Academia (20 min)
Q&A (25 min)

12:30-13:30   
Lunch

13:30-15:00
Session 3: Copyright and the Platform Economy (90 Min)
Caterina Sganga: Authors’ Fair Remuneration: Taking Stock After the CDSM Directive and Looking Ahead (20 min)
Martin Husovec: Trusted Content Creators: Improving the Position of Authors (20 min)
Martin Senftleben: Metadata Mainstreaming in Copyright Law – The Right Instrument for Building Trust in Content Recommender and Monetization Systems? (20 min)
Q&A (30 min)

15:00-15:30
Coffee Break

15:30-16:30
Session 4: Copyright, Sustainability and Human Rights (60 min)
Péter Mezei: Upcycling and IP (20 min)
Christophe Geiger: Copyright and Generative AI from a Human Rights perspective, Or How to Deal With the Conflict Between Scientific Development in AI Technology and the Remuneration Interests of Creators (20 min)
Q/A (20 min)

16:30  
Closing of the Conference