My academic work focuses on EU Intellectual Property law, especially copyright, alongside key topics in digital content distribution, consumption, and the evolving digital markets. Beyond intellectual property, my interests extend to privacy and data protection, IT law, and the broader legal frameworks governing the digital economy. In addition to my work on EU/EEA law, I am engaged in the harmonization of Ukrainian law with the EU acquis and Ukraine’s ongoing journey toward EU membership.

I obtained my PhD from the University of Tartu in Estonia with a thesis on "Reconciling the Material and Immaterial Dissemination Rights in Light of Developments under the EU Copyright Acquis". The thesis explores the developments under the EU copyright acquis against technological advancements and the distinction drawn between material and immaterial dissemination rights, restricting the application of a general limit to exclusive rights (‘exhaustion principle’) to tangible copies of a work. I argued for a need for reconciling the approaches in respect of secondary communication which would take into account the lawfulness of the initial communication as well as competing rationales of copyright protection. To this end, a normative framework for evaluating the justifiability of extending the reach of exclusive rights beyond authorising every initial dissemination of a work is offered.

In addition to my research, my practical experience in technology spans IT operations, server infrastructure management, contract negotiations for hardware and software resources, and ensuring IT compliance for the adoption of emerging technologies within organizations. This combination of legal research and hands-on technology experience enables me to bridge the gap between law and the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Areas of teaching and supervision:

• Intellectual property (IP) law
• Data protection law
• EU/EEA law

Course coordinator

2026

JUS2314 EU Copyright Law

JUS3514 EU Copyright Law

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (with Malgorzata Cyndecka)

2025

JUS2314 EU Copyright Law

JUS3514 EU Copyright Law

JUS3551 Immaterialrett (with Tore Lunde, Knut Martin Tande and Torger Kielland)

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (with Malgorzata Cyndecka)

DIGI613 GDPR og personvern (with Malgorzata Cyndecka)

2024

JUS2314 EU Copyright Law

JUS3514 EU Copyright Law

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (with Malgorzata Cyndecka)

2023

JUS277-2-C EU Copyright Law

JUS277-2-B International Copyright Law

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (with Malgorzata Cyndecka)

JUS260-2-B Opphavsrett

2022

JUS260-2-B Opphavsrett

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (with Malgorzata Cyndecka)

 

Academic article

• Liliia Oprysk (2026). Sui Generis Right to Non-Original Objects Generated by a Computer Program Under Ukrainian Law: First Impressions and (In)Compatibility with EU Law. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). How Much “New” Public Is Too Much? The CJEU’s VG Bild-Kunst Judgment and Non-Exhaustive Control Over a Work’s Consumption. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2021). Digital Consumer Contract Law without Prejudice to Copyright: EU Digital Content Directive, Reasonable Consumer Expectations and Competition. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk; Karin Sein (2020). Limitations in End-User Licensing Agreements: Is There a Lack of Conformity Under the New Digital Content Directive?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2020). Secondary communication under the EU copyright acquis after Tom Kabinet: between exhaustion and securing work’s exploitation. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk; Raimundas Matulevičius; Aleksei Kelli (2017). Development of a Secondary Market for E-books: The Case of Amazon. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). The Forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation in the EU: Higher Compliance Costs Might Slow Down Small and Medium- sized Enterprises’ Adoption of Infrastructure as a Service. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Liliia Oprysk (2026). Harmonization of Copyright Law. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2026). Article 3(3) InfoSoc Directive under the CJEU jurisprudence. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2025). Harmonisation with the EU Acquis amid the Resistance to Russian Aggression as a Catalyst of Ukrainian Copyright Recovery. (external link)
• Paloma 4. Krõõt Tupay; Liliia Oprysk; Martin Ebers (2023). Accountability and Liability. (external link)
• Martin Ebers; Liliia Oprysk; Paloma Krõõt Tupay (2023). Safety and Security. (external link)
• Paloma Krõõt Tupay; Liliia Oprysk; Martin Ebers (2023). Fairness and Equal Treatment. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Intellectual Property Rights and Data Ownership. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2020). “Digital” Exhaustion and the EU (Digital) Single Market. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). The CJEU Judgment in Ranks and Vasilevics: You Can Buy a Used License, but Will a Copy Follow?. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Liliia Oprysk (2025). The first of its kind in Europe: sui generis right to non-original objects generated by a computer programme under Ukrainian copyright law and the EU internal market. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). Ukraine on the way to EU membership. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). Trademark applications at the EUIPO sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and public policy or accepted principles of morality as a ground for refusal. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Content: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Chasing a moving target of EU copyright acquis amid full-scale Russian invasion: gradual approximation or a major leap for Ukrainian copyright. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Chasing the moving target of EU copyright acquis amid the full-scale Russian invasion: Ukraine’s multi-faced recovery?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Commercial use of national symbols in IP and marketing. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). How much “new” public is too much? The CJEU in VG Bild-Kunst and non-exhaustive control over consumption of works protected by copyright. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Restrictions on the use of the digital content and the Digital Content Directive: EULAs, terms and conditions and beyond. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Embedding of Freely Available Digital Content as an Infringement of Copyright under the EU law: CJEU Judgment in VG Bild-Kunst. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2021). Digital Consumer Contract Law without Prejudice to Copyright: EU Digital Content Directive, Reasonable Consumer Expectations and Competition. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). In search of flexibility under the EU copyright acquis: reconciling the approaches to material and immaterial dissemination rights. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). In search of flexibility under the EU copyright acquis: reconciling the approaches to material and immaterial dissemination rights. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). AI and sui generis copyright protection. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). The reference in C-263/18 TomKabinet case and the paradox of the CJEU’s functional equivalent approach. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). “Digital exhaustion” serving the digital markets. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). 90-ies revisited: mitigating the lack of imagination in copyright harmonisation. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). Making “digital” exhaustion serve the EU Digital Single Market. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). I can haz your e-book: the reference in TomKabinet case and the paradox of functional equivalent approach. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Applying copyright exhaustion to e-books // Tired but not exhausted. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Reconciling right of distribution and right of communication to the public in online environment. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Reconciling right of distribution and right of communication to the public in online environment. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Development of a Secondary Market for E-books: The Case of Amazon. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). Balancing incentives to create and public access to copyright protected works in digital age: copyright exhaustion and dissemination of literary works. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). The forthcoming Data Protection Regulation in the EU: Higher Compliance Costs Might Slow-Down Small and Medium Enterprises in Adopting Infrastructure as a Service. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). Distinguishing between the right of distribution and right of communication to the public in the online environment. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Liliia Oprysk (2020). Reconciling the material and immaterial dissemination rights in the light of the developments under the EU copyright acquis. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Liliia Oprysk (2024). GenAI, Free Speech, Author’s Moral Rights?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk; Terje Einarsen (2023). Lov og rett i Ukraina – hvorfor et internasjonalt rettsoppgjør med aggresjonsforbrytelsen nå?. (external link)

Journal review

• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Heiko Richter (ed): Competition and Intellectual Property Law in Ukraine. (external link)

Lecture

• Harald Irgens-Jensen; Liliia Oprysk (2026). Nyheter på opphavsrettsområdet siden sist. (external link)
• Harald Irgens-Jensen; Liliia Oprysk (2025). Nyheter på opphavsrettsområdet siden sist. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk; Ingunn Lunde; Svitlana Arabadzhy et al. (2025). Russia's forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children: Continuation of Russian colonial policies in Ukraine. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). Approximation with the EU copyright acquis as a matter of both economics and culture. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Memes in Ukrainian society dialogue in times of war. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Russia’s war against Ukraine: the role of civil society, research, and education. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Ukraine on the way to EU membership. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Ukraina – krigsforbrytelsene og flyktningene. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Status of internally displaced persons in Ukraine amid the Donbas war and annexation of Crimea and the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022. (external link)
• Johanne Berge Kalsaas; Martin Paulsen; Knut Einar Skodvin et al. (2022). Hvorfor er det krig i Ukraina?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Ukraine on the way to EU membership. (external link)

Media feature article

• Monica Naime; Liliia Oprysk (2022). Norge bør intervenere i Ukraina v. Russland ved ICJ. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Har noen spurt flyktningene?. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Krig til tross: Ukraina er på vei mot EU-medlemskap. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk; Terje Einarsen (2022). Vi må støtte et spesialtribunal for Ukraina nå!. (external link)

Other presentation

• Liliia Oprysk (2025). Copyright cross-roads in Europe: Empires, the Berne Convention, and the minorities in the late XIX – early XX centuries Ukraine. (external link)

Podcast

• Gaiane Nuridzhanian; Yuliya Chernykh; Liliia Oprysk (2026). UA-KLAR Podcast | Podcast on Spotify. (external link)

Popular science article

• Liliia Oprysk (2021). CJEU in C-597/19 Mircom: users of P2P networks might be infringing the right of making works available to the public. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2021). CJEU in C-597/19 Mircom: users of P2P networks might be infringing the making available right if duly informed. (external link)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). Ranks aftermath, or TomKabinet reference versus reality. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

University of Bergen experiences technical problems and the publication list cannot be fetched.

Most of my research can be found on ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Liliia-Oprysk) and/or SSRN (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2766712).

Academic positions

2021-present: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen

2020: Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich

2016-2019: Researcher in IT law, University of Tartu

2017-2019: Guest researcher

• Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, 2017-2018, 2019, 2021
• Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam, 2017
• Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University, 2017
• University of Oslo, 2018

 

Education 

2020 PhD in Law, University of Tartu (Estonia)

2016 MA in Law and Technology, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)

2013 MA in International Law, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)

2012 BA in International Relations and Law, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)

 

Private sector work experience

2020-2021: IT Compliance Manager, PwC Germany

2014: Contract Specialist, Itera ASA

2011-2014: Incident, Problem and Change Management, EVRY Sverige AB