Projecten
Activiteiten
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ALAI 2019 Congress: Managing Copyright: Hot Topics and Emerging Business Models in the Individual and Collective Management of Rights
18-09-2019
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4th Annual European Copyright Society Conference: A Copyright for Authors and Performers
24-05-2019
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Conference TILTing Perspectives 2019: ‘Regulating a world in transition’
15-05-2019
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International Conference “Pluralism or Universalism in International Copyright Law”
31-05-2018
Daniel Gervais
Professor D.J. Gervais is hoogleraar Informatierecht, in het bijzonder handel- en investeringsgerelateerde aspecten van de informatiemaatschappij, bij het Instituut voor Informatierecht. Het onderzoek van Daniel Gervais bevindt zich op het raakvlak van het internationale recht van intellectueel eigendom en het internationale handels- en investeringsrecht. Als hoogleraar zal Gervais zich richten op verbetering van de standaarden voor intellectueel eigendom inde informatiemaatschappij, met name binnen de EU. Tevens zal hij onderzoek doen naar de wijze waarop bestaande en voorgestelde handels- en investeringsakkoorden en -geschillen invloed uitoefenen op het vermogen van staten om innovatie en creativiteit binnen hun grenzen optimaal te faciliteren. Sinds 2008 is Daniel Gervais als Milton R Underwood Chair in Law verbonden aan de Vanderbilt University Law School. Hij is daarnaast directeur van het Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program en faculteitsdirecteur van het masterprogramma. Eerder was Gervais waarnemend decaan bij de afdeling Ius Commune van de rechtenfaculteit aan de University of Ottawa. Voorafgaand aan zijn academische carrière werkte Gervais onder meer als juridisch adviseur voor het General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (thans de Wereldhandelsorganisatie WTO), vervolgens als afdelingshoofd bij de World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) en daarna als Vice President van het Amerikaanse Copyright Clearance Center. Gervais studeerde zowel informatica als rechten aan de University of Montreal, waar hij twee onderscheidingen voor uitzonderlijke wetenschappelijke prestaties ontving. Gervais behaalde in 1989 summa cum laude zijn diploma in Advanced International Studies aan het Institute for Advanced International Studies te Genève. Hij promoveerde in 1998 magna cum laude aan de universiteit van Nantes. Gervais heeft diverse boeken geschreven en talrijke artikelen gepubliceerd in toonaangevende wetenschappelijke tijdschriften. Momenteel is hij hoofdredacteur van het Journal of World Intellectual Property en redacteur van tripsagreement.net. Daarnaast is hij lid van de Academia Europaea en gekozen lid van het American Law Institute, waar hij een van de rapporteurs is van het project Restatement of Copyright (First). Zijn publicaties zijn hier te vinden (of SSRN author page).
Publicaties
Bulayenko, O., Gervais, D.J., Poort, J., Quintais, J. AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part II In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2022. @article{nokey, |
Bulayenko, O., Gervais, D.J., Poort, J., Quintais, J. AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2022. @article{nokey, |
Bulayenko, O., Gervais, D.J., Poort, J., Quintais, J. AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework 2022, (reCreating Europe report, D3.5). @techreport{nokey, This report examines the application of EU copyright and related rights law to outputs generated by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools or techniques (AI outputs), with a focus on outputs in the musical domain. The Report examines the question: How can and should EU copyright and related rights law protect AI musical outputs? The interdisciplinary (legal and empirical) research involves: (i) analyzing of the protection of AI outputs under EU copyright and related rights law; (ii) examining the attribution of authorship and ownership to (natural and legal) persons involved in the creation or production of AI outputs; (iii) proposing interpretative guidelines and policy recommendations on increasing legal certainty regarding the protection, authorship, and ownership of copyright and related rights over AI outputs, especially music outputs. |
Gervais, D.J. AI-JAX In: Intellectual Property and Sports: Essays in Honour of P. Bernt Hugenholtz, pp. 437-448, Wolters Kluwer, 2021, ISBN: 9789403537337. (BibTeX) @inbook{nokey, |
Gervais, D.J., P.B. Hugenholtz, Quintais, J. Trends And Developments In Artificial Intelligence: Challenges To Patent Law Kluwer Patent Blog 2021. @online{Quintais2021KPB, |
Gervais, D.J., Hugenholtz, P., Quintais, J. Trends and Developments in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges to Copyright In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2020. @article{Hugenholtz2020g, |
Allan, J., Gervais, D.J., Hartmann, C., Hugenholtz, P., Quintais, J. 2020, (Report written for the European Commission by P.B. Hugenholtz, D. Gervais, J.P. Quintais, C. Hartmann & J. Allan, completed September 2020. ISBN: 97892762244488). @techreport{Hugenholtz2020f, This report examines copyright and patent protection in Europe for AI-assisted outputs in general and in three priority domains: science (in particular, meteorology), media (journalism), and pharmaceutical research. It comprises an assessment of the state of the art of uses of AI in the three focus areas, and a legal analysis of how IP laws currently apply to AI-assisted creative and innovative outputs. The report concludes that the current state of the art in AI does not require or justify immediate substantive changes in copyright and patent law in Europe. The existing concepts of copyright and patent law are sufficiently abstract and flexible to meet the current challenges from AI. In addition, related rights regimes potentially extend to ‘authorless’ AI productions in a variety of sectors, and the sui generis database right may offer protection to AI-produced databases resulting from substantial investment. However, taking into account the practical implications of AI technologies, the report identifies specific avenues for future legal reform (if justified by empirical evidence), offers recommendations for improvements in the application of existing rules (e.g. via guidelines), and highlights the need to study the role of alternative IP regimes to protect AI-assisted outputs, such as trade secret protection, unfair competition and contract law. |
Gervais, D.J. In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, vol. 2019, 2019. @article{Gervais2019b, |
Gervais, D.J. Related rights in United States law In: AMI, vol. 2018, nr. 6, pp. 245-251, 2019. @article{Gervais2019, This article explains the origin of the rights of performers, sound recording producers, audiovisual producers and broadcasters in the United States. As US law does not formally recognize a category of ‘related rights’, some of those rights exist under copyright law and are, therefore, subject to copyright rules such as the originality requirement, the possibility for authors to claim rights back 35 years after a transfer by contract, and the work-made-for-hire doctrine. Other rights are protected under different statutes. |
Bodó, B., Gervais, D.J., Quintais, J. Blockchain and smart contracts: the missing link in copyright licensing? In: International Journal of Law and Information Technology, vol. 2018, nr. 4, pp. 311-336, 2018. @article{Bod\'{o}2018d, This article offers a normative analysis of key blockchain technology concepts from the perspective of copyright law. Some features of blockchain technologies—scarcity, trust, transparency, decentralized public records and smart contracts—seem to make this technology compatible with the fundamentals of copyright. Authors can publish works on blockchain creating a quasi-immutable record of initial ownership, and encode ‘smart’ contracts to license the use of works. Remuneration may happen on online distribution platforms where the smart contracts reside. In theory, such an automated setup allows for the private ordering of copyright. Blockchain technology, like Digital Rights Management 20 years ago, is thus presented as an opportunity to reduce market friction, and increase both licensing efficiency and the autonomy of creators. Yet, some of the old problems remain. The article examines the differences between new, smart-contract-based private ordering regime and the fundamental components of copyright law, such as exceptions and limitations, the doctrine of exhaustion, restrictions on formalities, the public domain and fair remuneration. |
Gervais, D.J. International Intellectual Property's Institutional Problem In: Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2018. @article{Gervais2018b, |
Gervais, D.J. The cultural role(s) of collective management organizations In: European Intellectual Property Review, vol. 2018, nr. 6, pp. 349-356, 2018. @article{Gervais2018, Collective management organizations (CMOs) are, first and foremost, copyright and related rights licensing bodies managing vast sums of money. That does not, however, define the entire scope of their activities. For example, the 2014 EU Directive on collective management notes that CMOS "play, and should continue to play, an important role as promoters of the diversity of cultural expression". This article explains and evaluates the cultural functions that CMOs play. |
Gervais, D.J. (Re)structuring Copyright: A Comprehensive Path to International Copyright Reform Edwards Elgar, 2017. @book{Gervais2017, |
Gervais, D.J. Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, 3rd ed. Kluwer Law International, 2015. @book{Gervais2015, |
Gervais, D.J. Intellectual Property, Trade and Development, 2d ed. Oxford University Press, 2014. @book{Gervais2014, |
Gervais, D.J. The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis, 4th ed. Sweet & Maxwell, 2012. @book{Gervais2012, |