• Course Overview

The course will examine the role exceptions within copyright law from a comparative EU-US perspective. It will introduce students to the systematic differences between the two legal traditions and critically examine copyright exceptions against the background of new creative and innovative uses. The course will pay particular attention to relevant uses in digital environments, such as uses of protected works on online platform and the use of works for the purposes of artificial intelligence systems.

• Course Outline

We will meet 5 times. The programme of seminars is as follows:

1. Limitations and Exceptions in the EU;

2. The US fair use doctrine;

3. Artistic and creative uses: copyright exceptions and fundamental rights;

4. Copyright exceptions for artificial intelligence;

5. Limitations for sustainable innovation ecosystems.

The reading assignments and the PowerPoint slides will be added individually for each of the seminars.

General information on how to prepare for the seminars and how to successfully complete the course can be found here: