Fairness appears as the guiding paradigm of regulating the digital economy. Yet, its exact meaning has always remained dubious. The present article, which summarizes key insights of my PhD thesis “Fairness als Rechtsprinzip”, aims at filling this theoretical void by exploring to which extent...

This Position Statement presents a broad overview of issues arising at the intersection of AI and IP law based on the work of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition research group on Regulation of the Digital Economy. While the analysis is approached mainly from a perspective de...

The article illustrates the underestimated role unfair competition law (UCL) can play as a building block of the regulatory landscape relating to Artificial Intelligence (AI). To this end, it examines to what extent overarching prominent principles of AI regulation such as Fairness,...

Against the backdrop of the current discussion of how AI reshapes certain IP paradigms, this chapter reassesses the need for IP protection in AI markets per se. We assess the question of justification of IP rights for both AI as a tool and AI-generated output in light of the very theoretical...

The present Q&A paper aims at providing an overview of artificial intelligence with a special focus on machine learning as a currently predominant subfield thereof. Machine learning-based applications have been discussed intensely in legal scholarship, including in the field of intellectual...