The digital medium presents its own challenges to intellectual property and fundamental rights. This line will analyze the intersection between internet policy issues (such as content moderation, accountability of intermediaries, creation of works by artificial intelligence, new rights applicable to media organizations, etc.) with intellectual property, access to culture and knowledge, and the challenges posed by the pandemic.
The relationship between intellectual property and internet policies has been increasing, with discussions on intermediary liability, policies such as notice and stay down and upload filters, as well as the creation of new intellectual rights as a way to try to interfere in the balance of economic balances in the digital environment.
These intersections were intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic when access to cultural goods (and authors’ remuneration for them) became overly dependent on digital platforms and when discussions about reliable sources of information and “infodemic” involved misinformation and controversies around moderating online content for its control have gained urgency and centrality.
During the pandemic, other issues that run relatively autonomously – such as the creation of protected works as a product of artificial intelligence technologies, the accountability of intermediaries, upload filters, remuneration of creators and the control of copyright violations by digital platforms, and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) – have also gained more importance and visibility.
This thematic line intends to contribute to:
(i) the empirical understanding of these themes at the intersection between intellectual property, digital environment, and public interest,
(ii) the national and international debates on intellectual property reform at this intersection, and
(iii) advancing in the development of legal and extra-legal solutions for the implementation of internet policies.
Mariana Valente is Director of InternetLab (Brasil) and professor in undergraduate and executive education at Insper, coordinating the Certification in Law and Technology. She is a doctor, master, and lawyer from the Faculty of Law at USP. She is also a researcher at the Law and Democracy Nucleus of CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning) and was the coordinator of Creative Commons Brazil (2019-2021). She works mainly on internet policy issues, copyright, cultural markets and access to culture and knowledge, gender equality, and its relationship to technology.