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Kacper F. Szkalej

Kacper F. Szkalej

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow, MSCA Fellow, LEAD AI

Affiliation

E-mail
kacper.szkalej@uib.no
Visitor address
Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1
5010 Bergen
Postal address
P.O. Box 7806
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

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Kacper F. Szkalej

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow, MSCA Fellow, LEAD AI

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher in AI and IP Law with expertise that covers a wide array of themes such as protection and access to data, remuneration schemes, public interest exploitation, platform regulation, machine learning workflows and generative AI, open access, and fundamental rights.
Research

Kacper Szkalej is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher in AI and Intellectual Property Law. His academic expertise centres on protection and exploitation of information. Concentrating his activity primarily on copyright law, Kacper’s research ethos and interests are marked by a cross-disciplinary approach spanning the realm of law, technological regulation and contractual practices within digital markets, and cover a wide array of themes such as protection of and access to information and data, remuneration schemes, public interest exploitation, platform regulation, automation of decision-making, machine learning workflows and generative AI, open access, copyright enforcement and fundamental rights.

Before joining UiB, Kacper was postdoctoral researcher in intellectual property and technology law at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam and co-ordinator of the IViR Lecture Series (2023-2026). He also served as Assistant Professor in Law and Technology at the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI) at Stockholm University and the cross-disciplinary research center Digital Futures, where he worked with intellectual property, information security, and data protection law, and Assistant Professor in Private Law at the Centre for Business Law (ACLU) at Lund University between 2021-2023 and prior to that was Lecturer in intellectual property law at the Institute of Intellectual Property, Marketing, and Competition Law (IMK) at Uppsala University between 2013-2021 where he also defended his doctorate work in 2021. In 2022 Kacper was awarded the von Bahr’s Prize by Uppsala University for best doctorate in private law for his work Copyright in the Age of Access to Legal Digital Content (2021) that comprehensively investigates copyright protection from a user perspective, regulation by technology and contractual practices in content distribution channels, as well as copyright’s interface with human rights and consumer protection law.

With an extensive research and teaching portfolio, Kacper is regularly engaged as speaker at academic and non-academic fora and as guest lecturer in technology law at law schools throughout Sweden as well as technical schools such as the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) or Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University. He often acts as national expert for Sweden in international comparative law projects, for instance Global Online Piracy Study, ReCreating Europe, or SIENNA, and has acted as copyright expert in several formal public consultation proceedings. Recent projects include Improving access to and reuse of R&I results, publications and data for scientific purposes and the creation of a registry for public domain and openly licenced works CommonsDB. Kacper is co-author of the accessible title on EU copyright law EU Copyright Law: Subsistence, Exploitation and Protection of Rights (2019, Kluwer Law International) and co-editor of the international comparative title Employees’ Intellectual Property Rights (2015 and 2018, Kluwer Law International). Since 2023 Kacper acts as Scientific Board Member at Copyright Flexibilities and since 2022 as Board Member of AIPPI Sweden.

Publications

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Szkalej K, Copyright in the Age of Access to Legal Digital Content: A study of EU copyright law in the context of consumptive use of protected content (Uppsala University 2021); ISBN 978-91-506-2895-1
  • Rosenmeier M, Szkalej K, Wolk S, EU Copyright Law: Subsistence, Exploitation and Protection of Rights (Kluwer Law International 2019); ISBN 978-90-411-8369-9

Editorship

  • Wolk S, Szkalej K (eds), Employees’ Intellectual Property Rights (2nd ed., Kluwer Law International 2018); ISBN 978-90-411-9230-1
  • Wolk S, Szkalej K (eds), Employees’ Intellectual Property Rights (Kluwer Law International 2015); ISBN 978-90-411-5972-4

Articles

  • Szkalej K, 'Music Recommendery Systems and the Copyright Blindspot: Conceptualising the Right to Be Heard' (2025), available at <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5967014>
  • Sganga C, Margoni T, Senftleben M, Szkalej K, ‘Towards a European Research Freedom Act: A Proposal for an EU-wide Secondary Publication Right’ (2025) International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law – IIC, available at <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5000116> or <https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-025-01620-6>
  • Senftleben M, Szkalej K, Sganga C, Margoni T, ‘Towards a European Research Freedom Act: A Reform Agenda for Research Exceptions in the EU Copyright Acquis’ (2025) International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law – IIC, available at <https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-025-01604-6>
  • Szkalej K, ‘Copyright Liability and Generative AI: What’s the Way Forward?’ (2025) Nordic Intellectual Property Law Review NIR 1/2025 92-115, available at <https://ssrn.com/abstract=5117603>
  • Szkalej K, ‘The paradox of lawful text and data mining? Some experiences from the research sector and where we (should) go from here’ (2025) Journal of European and International IP Law – GRUR Int. 74(4) 307-319, available at <https://doi.org/10.1093/grurint/ikaf029>
  • Szkalej K, Senftleben M, ‘Generative AI and Creative Commons Licenses. The Application of Share Alike Obligations to Trained Models, Curated Datasets and AI Output’ (2024) Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law  – JIPITEC 15(3) 313-337, available at <https://www.jipitec.eu/jipitec/article/view/415>
  • Corrales Compagnucci M, Minssen T, Nilsson N, Olsson M, Szkalej K, Non-Fungible Tokens as a Framework for Sustainable Innovation in Pharmaceutical R&D: A Smart Contract-Based Platform for Data Sharing and Rightholder Protection (2023) International Review of Law, Computers & Technology – Int’l. Rev. L. Comp. & Tech. 38(1) 66–85, available at  <https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2023.2233803>  

Blog posts and commentaries

  • Szkalej K, Private copying levies, broadcasters and the principle of equal treatment – C-260/22 Seven.One Entertainment Group v Corint Media (29.07.2024 Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Szkalej K, Looking for the edge of Article 3 InfoSoc Directive and finding it twice – in a car and in the court (25.11.2020, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Szkalej K, The New Copyright Directive: Article 17 and copyright limitations – picking two cherries and leaving the rest to spoil? Part II (04.11.2019, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Szkalej K, The New Copyright Directive: Article 17 and copyright limitations – picking two cherries and leaving the rest to spoil? Part I (29.10.2019, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Szkalej K, Article 17 DSM Directive: the Swedish proposal (Part 2) (21.04.022, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Szkalej K, Article 17 DSM Directive: the Swedish proposal (Part 1) (20.04.2022, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Szkalej K, The Modern Church of Copyright. A short story of preserving access to humour in Sweden (11.07.2019, Nordic Intellectual Property Law Review)
  • Szkalej K, Blocking injunctions against ISPs in Sweden 2.0 beta – the rise of the interim injunction? Part II (26.11.2018, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Szkalej K, Blocking injunctions against ISPs in Sweden 2.0 beta – the rise of the interim injunction? Part I (22.11.2018, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International) 
  • Szkalej K, Wolk S, Blocking injunctions against ISPs in Sweden – the Swedish court doesn’t wait for the CJEU (03.01.2017, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Kluwer Law International)
  • Wolk S, Szkalej K, Blockeringsförelägganden riktade till internetleverantörer (mars 2017, Blendow Lexnova Expertkommentar - Immaterialrätt, Blendow Lexnova)
  • Wolk S, Szkalej K, Överföring till allmänheten och länkning (maj 2015, Blendow Lexnova Expertkommentar – Immaterialrätt,Blendow Lexnova)
  • Wolk, Szkalej, Det upphovsrättsliga ny publik-rekvisitet - vad innebär det i praktiken? (april 2014, Blendow Lexnova Expertkommentar - Immaterialrätt, Blendow Lexnova)
  • Wolk, Szkalej, Länkning på internet till upphovsrättsligt skyddat material (december 2013, Blendow Lexnova Expertkommentar – Immaterialrätt, Blendow Lexnova)

Academic reports and studies

Other publications (expert consultations, reports, popular scientific material)