New data are created by the quintillions of bytes every day. This explosion of data makes possible fast-developing machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. These technologies thrive on repurposing and processing big data streams. In the big data era, orienting within this magma...

Renaissance genius Pico della Mirandola dreamed of making all knowledge accessible in one place. The Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market could help Pico’s dream come true. The proposal, inter alia, aims at facilitating wider access to Europe’s cultural heritage...

Since the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability exemptions for online intermediaries, market conditions have radically changed. Originally, intermediary liability exemptions were introduced to promote an emerging Internet market. Do safe harbours for online intermediaries still...

In the last two decades, the industry has deployed endlessly the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy. Recently, the “digital threat” discourse called for enhanced liability of online intermediaries, especially those whose platforms...

Since the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability exemptions for online intermediaries, market conditions have radically changed. Originally, intermediary liability exemptions were introduced to promote an emerging Internet market. Do safe harbours for online intermediaries still...

The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market might fundamentally change the way works and other subject matter protected by copyright will be used on online platforms. Article 17 of the Directive obliges such platforms, based on information they receive from rightholders, to ensure...