Kacper F Szkalej

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postdoktor, MSCA Fellow, LEAD AI

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie-forsker innen AI og IPR med ekspertise som dekker et bredt spekter av temaer, som beskyttelse av og tilgang til data, vederlagsordninger, utnyttelse av offentlig interesse, plattformregulering, arbeidsflyt for maskinlæring og generativ AI, åpen tilgang og menneskerettigheter.
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Utvalgte aktiviteter

2025

GenAI and Creative Practices Conference, 17-18.12.2025 in Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam 

  • Paper: Incentivising Creation, Not Control: A Cultural Alternative to the AI Levy

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), EOSC Symposium 2025, Brussels 3-5.11.25

  • Presentation: Knowledge valorisation and links with industry. Legal barriers and ways forward.

COMMUNIA, Review of the EU copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market, Brussels 9.10.25 (expert workshop)

Unlocking the Potential of Cultural Heritage Resources for Culturally Diverse, Unbiased AI System, 15.09.2025 in Amsterdam, IViR/Stichting Internet Archive (expert workshop)

Turning IP Ambitions into Action: Creating Connections, Collaborations, and Communities, Annual Conference of the association European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP). 10-12.09.2025 in Antwerpen, University of Antwerpen)

  • Paper: IP as disincentive? Realising innovation my mitigating risk for knowledge institutions
  • Paper (with M. Senftleben, C. Sganga, and T. Margoni  : Towards a European Research Freedom Act: A Reform Agenda for Research Exceptions in the E Copyright Acquies
  • Paper (with C. Sganga, T. Margoni, and M. Senftleben): Towards a European Research Freedom Act: A Proposal for an EU-wide Secondary Publication Right

Inspiring ERA, EU Copyright Rules and Data Access Rights for Research in the Age of AI, Paris 9.07.2025

  • Presentation: Enabling research in the copyright ecosystem – challenges and opportunities

European Commission, Understanding Copyright for Cultural Heritage Institutions: libraries – access and (re)use of works for distance education, research and leisure, online 02.07.2025

  • Presentation: Understanding copyright – access and (re)use of works. Copyright exceptions, licences, and Open Access

European Commission, Understanding Copyright for Cultural Heritage Institutions: libraries – access and (re)use of works for distance education, research and leisure, online 24.06.2025

  • Presentation: Understanding copyright for libraries. Limitations & exceptions, licences, and Secondary Publication Rights (SPR)

Exploring the Interface Between Intellectual Property and Justice: Theory and Practice in a Dynamic Reality, Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), 22-25.06.2025 in Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen

  • Paper:  Intellectual property law and justice – mitigating legal uncertainty for knowledge institutions

IP Researchers Europe Conference (IPRE) 2025, 19-20.06.2025 Geneva, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), World Trade Organisation (WTO), University of Geneva

  • Paper:  The Law of the Code: Copyright Challenges in Mining Software Repositories

American University Washington College of Law, South Centre, Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights Symposium 2025: Principles for Progress in Digital Copyright, Geneva 16-18.06.2025

  • Presentation: Mitigating Legal Uncertainty for Knowledge Institutions

Creative Commons, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy (NYU School of Law), Alexander von Humboldt Institute für Internet und Gesellschaft , From Human Content to Machine Data. Using Collective Action to Develop a New Social Contract for Machine Reuse, Berlin 23.04.2025 (expert workshop)

2024

Uppsala University, AI Act 2024: Navigating the Future of AI Regulation, Uppsala 10.12.2024

  • Presentation:  Innovating in the dark. Is copyright an enabler or disabler of developing AI?

European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), Presential Judges seminar on licensing of IP rights – issues, court practice and litigation trends, Alicante 4-5.12.2024

  • Presentation 1:  Copyright licensing - overview and impact on court practice
  • Presentation 2: Text and data mining exceptions and licensing

LIBER/Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Workshop with the LIBER Copyright Working Group, The Hague 20.11.2024, 22.11.2024

The Black-Box Problem in Intellectual Property, 13-14.11.2024 in Amsterdam, IViR (expert workshop)

Danish Copyright Society (DSFO), The XIX Nordic Copyright Symposium, Copenhagen 25-27.09.2024

  • Presentation:  GenAI and copyright liability – is there a way forward?

NNHRR Workshop on GenAI, 19.09.2024 in Amsterdam, IViR/TILT (expert workshop)

Intellectual property and the future of the data economy, Annual Conference of the association European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), 11-13.09.2024 in Pisa, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and University of Pisa

  • Paper: EU copyright law and research freedoms: an analysis based on equal treatment
  • Paper: Dealing with transactional (un)certainty and value gaps in content distributions systems
  • Paper (with M. Senftleben, T. Margoni, J. Poort, and E. Valk): Music metadata mainstreaming and EU law
  • Paper (with T. Margoni, M. Senftleben, and C. Sganga): Copyright, data and digital legislation for research: towards a new research based regulatory paradigm

Intellectual Property, Ethical Innovation and Sustainability Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), 30.06–3.07.2024 in Rome, Luiss Guido Carli University

  • Paper (with T. Margoni, C. Sganga and M. Senftleben): Towards a More Sustainable Copyright and Data Legislation for Open Science

Wikimedia Sverige, Swedish Library Association, Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM), Stockholm University, Copyright, TDM & AI , Stockholm, 14.06.2024

  • Presentation:  The paradox of lawful text and data mining? Some experiences from the research sector and where we (should) go from here

American University Washington, Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights Symposium 2024, Washington D.C. 11-14.06.2024

  • Presentation: ERA Study Improving access to and reuse of research results, publications and data for scientific purposes

Universiteiten van Nederland, What do we want (or not want) from publishers? Looking beyond the current Dutch contract with Elsevier, Utrecht 18.04.2024

  • Presentation:  Academic freedom, Open Access, and copyright

Metadata mainstreaming in the music industries. Data spaces and beyond, 14.03.2024 in Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (expert workshop)

EU Commission, Improving access to and reuse of R&I results, publications and data for scientific purposes, Brussels/ online 26.02.2024

2023

American University Washington College of Law, Right to Research Project Fall Workshops, Washington D.C. 28.09.2023

AIPPI Sweden, Upphovsättsavtal och avtalsfrihet - Om rätt till skälig ersättning och andra nya krav vid upphovsrättsöverlåtelser, Stockholm 16.06.2023

  • Presentation: as title of event

AIPPI Sweden, AI och upphovsrätt, Malmö 28.03.2023

  • Presentation:   Maskininlärning möter upphovsrätt. Några tankar om utveckling av AI-system och två nya upphovsrättsinskränkningar

2022

Swedish Copyright Society (SFU), Upphovsrättslig studiedag, Stockholm 28.11.2022

  • Presentation: Metaverse – vad är det och vad innebär det för upphovsrätten?

Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, EU Law in the Digital Age, Uppsala, 16-17.06.2022

  • Presentation: The Spectacular Fall and (Incremental) Rise of the Legitimacy of EU Copyright Law. Some  Lessons to be Drawn for Regulatory Interventions in the Era of AI

Consumer protection and IP law overlaps, WIPS6, 9-10.06.2022 in Szeged, University of Szeged

  • Paper:  Exhaustion of the making available right
Publikasjoner

Urvalgte publikasjoner

Monografier

  • 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

Redaktørskap

  • 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

Artikler

  • Szkalej K, 'Music Recommender Systems and the Copyright Blindspot: Conceptualising the Right to Be Heard' (2025) <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 <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 <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 <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 <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 <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 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2023.2233803>  

Akademiske rapporter og studier

Blogginlegg og kommentarer

  • 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)

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