Or drop me a line at j.p.quintais@uva.nl

Wonderful. Definitely up for a call. I'll DM details.

I'll actually be looking into terms and conditions of GenAI services, as well as embedded GenAI services in platforms and search engines in this upcoming project: www.nwo.nl/en/projects/...

Thanks @lilianedwards.bsky.social, appreciate the kind words and shout out.

The paper is here: Using Terms and Conditions to apply Fundamental Rights to Content Moderation | German Law Journal, www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With comments by @jpquintais.bsky.social
cc @uvalawschool.bsky.social

Comment of the European Copyright Society on the request for preliminary ruling in Case C-250/25 (Like Company) The European Copyright Society published its Opinion in Like Company. The European Copyright Society (ECS) was founded in 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarl...

Comment of the European Copyright Society on the request for preliminary ruling in Case C-250/25 (Like Company), legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl...

Speakers include
📚 @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social
📚 @rdch.bsky.social
📚 Alexander Peukert
📚 Bernt Hugenholtz
📚 @danielgervais.bsky.social
📚 Martin Senftleben
📚 @profseanflynn.bsky.social
📚 Elena Izyumenko
📚 @paul.eurosky.social
📚 …and myself!

Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy 2026 - IVIR The Institute for Information Law organizes an annual intensive post-graduate course on international copyright law and policy. The face of copyright law and policy changes continuously, mostly due to...

🚀 Registrations are now open for the 2026 Institute for Information Law (IViR) Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy!

Join us for an intensive 5-day program on international copyright law, featuring an incredible lineup of experts

🔗 Details & registration: www.ivir.nl/courses/icl/

EU copyright law roundup – fourth trimester of 2025 Now that 2026 year has started with full force, it makes sense to see where 2025 left us in terms of EU copyright law during its final months (October – December). During that period, we saw some impo...

EU copyright law roundup – fourth trimester of 2025, with @alinatrapova.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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@aleksandraq.bsky.social and @jpquintais.bsky.social have put out what is sure to be the definitive work on must-carry laws in the EU.

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Cox v. Sony: The Supreme Court’s Quest for a Contributory Infringement Standard The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to shake up American copyright law by articulating a different—and likely a stricter—legal standard for what constitutes contributory copyright infringement in the ...

Cox v. Sony: The Supreme Court’s Quest for a Contributory Infringement Standard, by @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Also on SSRN dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn..., will be on a non-Elsevier pre-print server but their moderation is slow...

The Obligations of Providers of General-Purpose AI Models Michael Veale1,2 and João Pedro Quintais 2 1Faculty of Laws, University College London 2Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam To appear in Zanfir Fortuna, Malgieri, González Fuster and Mantelero (eds.) The Artificial Intelligence Act — A Thematic Commentary (Hart forthcoming 2026). This version: November 2025. During the legislative process, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was amended to include provisions related to general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. These broadly relate to transparency towards downstream users and relevant regulators, in addition to obligations connected to intellectual property. In this paper, we provide detailed analysis of these new provisions in the context of current technological applications and emerging trajectories, connecting them to computing literature and practice, and the broader context of connected and adjacent legal regimes, in particular copyright and relevant emerging case law. We find that there are a significant number of inclarities, tensions and contradictions both within the text, between the text and other legal regimes, and between the text and guideline documents, such as the Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI and recent guidelines by the European Commission. We identify a range of issues with the scoping of the provisions which may undermine its policy goals and create loopholes for regulatory avoidance, such as those relating to non-commercial models, open-source models, and model finetuning along the value chain. We find that the Code of Practice contains significant omissions and misstatements, some of which may present a compliance risk for an entity choosing to rely on the Code. We do not consider the provisions on GPAI models which present a systemic risk, which are dealt with elsewhere in the volume which this work will form a part of.

A table of contents for the paper - 47 pages long, covering legislative background, definitions, information/documentation requirements, copyright, demonstration of compliance, exclusions and concluding remarks.

New from @jpquintais.bsky.social & me: a critical and wide analysis of the Obligations of all General-Purpose AI Model providers under the EU AI Act. We give a deep ~50 page, 300 footnote treatment and find so many tensions, loopholes, inconsistencies and more.

Link: files.michae.lv/papers/Veale...

Vidi-subsidies voor 26 onderzoekers van UvA en Amsterdam UMC De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) kent aan 26 talentvolle wetenschappers van de UvA en Amsterdam UMC (locatie AMC) een Vidi-subsidie toe. De Vidi-financiering bedraagt maximaal 850.000 euro per project. Hiermee kunnen de wetenschappers een eigen onderzoekslijn ontwikkelen en en eigen onderzoeksgroep opstarten of verder uitbouwen.

Gefeliciteerd @jpquintais.bsky.social, @mwewerinke.bsky.social en Mahsa Shabani met jullie Vidi-subsidie van NWO om een onderzoekslijn uit te bouwen. @seven-uva.bsky.social, @ivir-uva.bsky.social, @lawhealthlife.bsky.social

Vidi grant for Dr. João Pedro Quintais - IVIR IViR is proud to announce that Dr. João Pedro Quintais has received a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his research into generative AI content moderation.

IViR is very happy and proud to announce that Dr. João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social was awarded with a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Congratulations João Pedro! 🥳
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Vacancy — PhD Candidate Law - Generative AI in the Media The overall goal of this project is to study the role and implications that the new regulatory framework has in realising public values and influencing the power dynamics and legal relationships in the context of the development and use of generative AI models and systems in the media context, with a focus on AI-generated illegal and harmful content.

🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨
Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working with @jpquintais.bsky.social, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social.
📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025. 🔗 More info: http://bit.ly/47flgcR @ivir-uva.bsky.social

EU copyright law roundup – second and third trimester of 2025 Following our platform update and the summer break, one may think we stopped our roundup series. Rest assured – we are here! This edition combines the second and third trimesters, so it will be longer...

EU copyright law roundup – second and third trimester of 2025, by @alinatrapova.bsky.social and me on Kluwer Copyright Blog
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Vacancy — PhD Candidate Law - Generative AI in the Media The overall goal of this project is to study the role and implications that the new regulatory framework has in realising public values and influencing the power dynamics and legal relationships in th...

🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨

Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social

📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
 
Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social

Are the European TDM Exceptions Applicable to GenAI Training? Despite the Three-Step Test?

Are the European TDM Exceptions Applicable to GenAI Training? Despite the Three-Step Test? By Martin Senftleben on the Kluwer Copyright Blog
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📢 Come work with us! We have a postdoc and PhD position for the Artificial Secrecy project. Deadline: October 17th. More info:
www.ivir.nl/projects/art...
cc @uvalawschool.bsky.social

NEW: Preparations for the EU’s code of practice on labelling AI-generated content are moving forward. While no launch date has been set, the preliminary results of technical studies meant to inform the code will be discussed at a workshop next week.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

Why the Copyright Statute Is Not Enough: How the Restatement Relies on Both Statute and Caselaw to Clarify U.S. Copyright Law In a previous blog post, we explained how the Restatement of the Law, Copyright was prepared, how it is structured, and how it was approved as of May by the membership of the American Law Institute (A...

Why the (c) Statute Is Not Enough: How the Restatement Relies on Both Statute & Caselaw to Clarify U.S. Copyright Law, by @danielgervais.bsky.social, L. Loren, R. A. Reese, @cjsprigman.bsky.social & @mollysvh.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Deepfake Bills in Denmark and the Netherlands: Right idea, wrong legal framework. Deepfakes are flooding the internet. Thanks to generative AI, politicians say things on camera they never said, celebrities star in porn clips they never dreamt about, and the Pope dons a puffer jacke...

Deepfake Bills in Denmark and the Netherlands: Right idea, wrong legal framework, by Bernt Hugenholtz on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social

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An EU Copyright Framework for Research: Opinion of the European Copyright Society, by Caterina Sganga, Christophe Geiger, Thomas Margoni, Martin Senftleben & Mireille van Eechoud on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Restating Copyright: The ALI’s Landmark Project and What It Means for the Law In May 2025, the membership of the American Law Institute (ALI) completed a milestone in our understanding and interpretation of U.S. copyright law: the approval of its first-ever Restatement of the L...

Restating Copyright: The ALI’s Landmark Project and What It Means for the Law, by @danielgervais.bsky.social, Lydia Loren, R. Anthony Reese, @cjsprigman.bsky.social & @mollysvh.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Copyright as a Freedom of (Artistic) Expression Right? The Dangers and Human Rights Law Misconceptions in the AG’s Opinion in Pelham II Following up on the initial comment by Sabines Jacques published on this blog about Advocate General (AG) Emiliou’s recent Opinion in the Pelham II case – which examined his interpretation of the past...

Copyright as a Freedom of (Artistic) Expression Right? The Dangers and Human Rights Law Misconceptions in the AG’s Opinion in Pelham II, by Elena Izyumenko (@ivir-uva.bsky.social) on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe? More than forty copyright-related lawsuits have been filed in U.S. courts against developers of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) systems. The most common complaint is that the developers inf...

Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe? by @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Our summer courses have kicked off today and indeed, summer it is in Amsterdam!🌞We hope everyone will enjoy the sessions in the different courses on Copyright, Privacy and Platform Regulation. Stay cool!
@elsdebusser.bsky.social, @jpquintais.bsky.social, @jvh.bsky.social, @pjleerssen.bsky.social

CommonsDB Feasibility Study: Building the Future of Digital Commons – Open Future This study outlines how CommonsDB is creating a registry of Public Domain and openly licensed works to improve legal certainty when reusing digital content.

The first part of CommonsDB Feasibility Study—by @paulk.bsky.social, @culturedoug.bsky.social, @posth.me, @jpquintais.bsky.social, @theflyinglawyer.bsky.social, and Thomas Margon—anticipates launching the first public version of the registry after summer.

Download: openfuture.eu/publication/...

A mid-year review of AI and copyright posts - Kluwer Copyright Blog The role of copyright rules in the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate legal discussions in 2025. With new case law, legislative initiatives, and regulatory developments u...

📝"A mid-year review of AI and copyright posts", a short roundup of some great contributions we have had on this topic in 2025

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Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social