This event features a discussion with Sophia Wistehube (European Broadcasting Union), Eleonora Rosati (EUI Alumna, Stockholm University and Bird & Bird) and Jane C. Ginsburg (Columbia Law School).
Abstract: Generative AI is raising fundamental questions for copyright law on both sides of the Atlantic. This event will examine how Europe and the United States are responding to challenges ranging from the use of copyrighted works for AI training to the treatment of AI-generated outputs. Bringing together academic and industry perspectives, the discussion will address recent German litigation on generative AI, possible future questions for the CJEU, and the developing US case law. It will also consider the practical concerns of right holders and media organisations and compare where the emerging EU and US approaches converge and differ.
Speakers:
Sophia Wistehube is a Senior Legal Counsel at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), specializing in issues of AI regulation, human rights and democracy. Before joining the EBU, she worked at the European Court of Human Rights and the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. She holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.
Professor Jane C. Ginsburg is the faculty co-director of Columbia’s Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. She is a renowned authority on intellectual property law and a staunch defender of authors’ rights. She is also the author of casebooks on International Copyright: U.S. and EU Perspectives (with Edouard Treppoz) and Copyright: Cases and Materials (10th edition) (with Robert A. Gorman and R. Anthony Reese). Ginsburg was a co-reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. She is a vice president of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, a Paris-based international organization created to promote and defend authors’ rights, and president of its U.S. chapter.
An EUI alumna (PhD 2012), Eleonora Rosati is Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University and Of Counsel at Bird & Bird. She holds guest/visiting positions at several other institutions, is Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press), and long-standing contributor to and editor of The IPKat. The author of several scholarly articles and books on IP issues, including Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (Oxford University Press: 2026, 3rd edn) and Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Article-by-Article Commentary to the Provisions of Directive 2019/790 (Oxford University Press: 2021), Eleonora regularly prepares technical briefings and expert opinions at the request of inter alia international organizations and EU institutions and agencies, as well as national governments, corporations, and professional bodies and organizations. She has received multiple accolades and prizes for her work in the IP field and has been featured in prominent media outlets, including inter alia The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, CNN, BBC, El Pais, and Politico.
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