MusicaJuridica

14/12/2021

Returning to my old flame for 1 day: looking forward to teaching music law at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague tomorrow! https://www.koncon.nl/en/

It's nice not having to speak or write about AI, data or quantum technology for a change ... 😁🎼

I am giving an in person guest lecture to a small group of students at the Amare, and it is live streamed to the rest of the department. The Amare is home to Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) as well, one of the world’s leading contemporary dance companies, dedicated to creation, research, innovation and talent development. https://www.ndt.nl/en/

Using self-produced audio fragments and practical examples, we cover 18 music law topics ranging from registering intellectual property rights to strategic contract negotiations. The tracks I prepared are played from my Powerpoint into a pair of phenomenal Bowers & Wilkins monitors, the ultimate sound system. https://www.muziekenrecht.nl/blog/2017/6/music-licensing-in-the-netherlands-movies-games-legal-aspects

Looking back in nostalgia to the cross-disciplinary masterclasses I had the pleasure of giving in recent years inter alia at Universiteit Leiden / Leiden University, Utrecht University and Conservatorium Maastricht. https://www.musicajuridica.nl/blog/2017/5/gastcollege-intellectueel-eigendom-conservatorium-maastricht

Absolute highlight was the postgraduate CPO Radboud University music & law seminar at Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, which included a public domain quiz musically framed by an ad hoc ensemble of Concertgebouworkest musicians featuring the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on piano and me on clarinet es/bes, playing bespoke Mozart, Beethoven and Bach arrangements. https://www.muziekenrecht.nl/blog/2018/cpo-seminar-muziek-recht-concertgebouw-amsterdam

Kudos to the KonCon management for making sure their talented students have firsthand access to vital information about the inner workings of the music & entertainment industry!

07/11/2021

I will be speaking about Legal & Ethical Guidelines for Quantum Technology on Saturday Nov. 20 at 9:15-10:15 a.m. Phoenix, Arizona time (GMT-7) as part of the Quantum Technologies, Law, and Public Policy: A Global Perspective Conference. This two-day online event is hosted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Center for Quantum Networks at the University of Arizona, and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Speakers include a cross-disciplinary line-up of quantum & law scholars from UC Berkeley School of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, the University of Arizona, Sabanci University, Loyola Law School, Lund University, and Stanford Law School.

You can find the conference’s agenda and registration here: https://bit.ly/3mUxLVm. Besides explaining quantum physics and discussing regulation, the focus is also on developing countries and their challenge with the future of quantum technologies. This is arguably the first comprehensive conference on quantum technology and the law in the U.S..

The Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) is taking on one of the great engineering challenges of the 21st century: to lay the technical and social foundations of the quantum internet. The Quantum Internet will surpass the capabilities of today’s internet because of the unique advantages of entanglement—a coordination of the quantum states of particles serving as computational bits that is not present in the realms of classical physics. https://cqn-erc.org/mission/

After registering for the conference you will receive the Zoom link that gives access to the event.

OUR MISSION & VISION CQN will lay the foundations for a socially responsible quantum internet which will spur new technology industries and a competitive marketplace of quantum service providers and application developers We will develop the first quantum network enabling fully error-corrected quant...

11/10/2021

Our managing partner Mauritz Kop (Stanford Law School) has the honor to guest-edit a Topical Collection for Digital Society, a new journal edited by Luciano Floridi (). Articles will be double blind peer reviewed. Accepted articles will be published by Springer Nature.

We especially welcome cross-disciplinary contributions that look beyond research silos and integrate law, economic theory, ethics, sociology, philosophy of science, quantum information science, and sustainable innovation policy, and that consider how to improve ELSPI stratagems for quantum technology. We encourage authors to be pioneers in this complex and counterintuitive field.

“I have the honor to guest-edit a Topical Collection for Digital Society, a new journal edited by Luciano Floridi (). Articles will be double blind peer reviewed. Accepted articles will be published by Springer Nature.”

26/09/2021

New Stanford tech policy research: “EU Artificial Intelligence Act: The European Approach to AI”. 😀😎

On 21 April 2021, the European Commission presented the Artificial Intelligence Act. This Stanford Law School contribution lists the main points of the proposed regulatory framework for AI.

The draft regulation seeks to codify the high standards of the EU trustworthy AI paradigm. It sets out core horizontal rules for the development, trade and use of AI-driven products, services and systems within the territory of the EU, that apply to all industries.

The EU AI Act introduces a sophisticated ‘product safety regime’ constructed around a set of 4 risk categories. It imposes requirements for market entrance and certification of High-Risk AI Systems through a mandatory CE-marking procedure. This pre-market conformity regime also applies to machine learning training, testing and validation datasets.

The AI Act draft combines a risk-based approach based on the pyramid of criticality, with a modern, layered enforcement mechanism. This means that as risk increases, stricter rules apply. Applications with an unacceptable risk are banned. Fines for violation of the rules can be up to 6% of global turnover for companies.

The EC aims to prevent the rules from stifling innovation and hindering the creation of a flourishing AI ecosystem in Europe, by introducing legal sandboxes that afford breathing room to AI developers.

The new European rules will forever change the way AI is formed. Pursuing trustworthy AI by design seems like a sensible strategy, wherever you are in the world.

On 21 April 2021, the European Commission presented the Artificial Intelligence Act. This contribution will list the main points of this novel regulat

19/08/2021

Nieuwe Europese regels voor gedreven producten, diensten en systemen. 😎 We zetten de belangrijkste punten van de Wet op de Artificiële Intelligentie op een rij op onze website:

Een bewerkte versie van deze bijdrage is gepubliceerd op platform VerderDenken.nl van het Centrum voor Postacademisch Juridisch Onderwijs (CPO) van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. https://www.ru.nl/cpo/verderdenken/columns/wet-artificiele-intelligentie-belangrijkste-punten/ Nieuwe regels vo

06/06/2021

Delighted that my Stanford Law article 'Quantum Computing and Intellectual Property Law' will be published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal this summer. The Berkeley Technology Law Journal is the leading, number 1 ranked law review in this field. Looking forward tremendously to working with the talented editors! https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3860456

30/04/2021

Congrats to the European Commission for the birth of the Law of AI! It was good to see several strategic recommendations incorporated in the Regulations draft - made on behalf of Nederlandse AI Coalitie | NL AIC & as part of Stanford Law School innovation policy research. https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/european-ai-alliance/document/nl-aic-feedback-european-commissions-ai-legislative-proposal-netherlands

This means our thoughts, those of so many other stakeholders, and CoE’s CAHAI, closely align.

It takes courage and creativity to be a pioneer in this novel field, forcing companies from the powerful US and China tech blocks to abide by EU standards before their AI & data driven products & services can obtain a CE-marking and enter the European 450 mln consumer markets. By Shaping the Law of AI, the EU provides a North Star to the world, determines direction and leads towards purposeful destination. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_21_1683

Regulating emerging technology is an ongoing effort, as society is in constant flux. Although enforcing the proposed rules will be an entirely new adventure, I am confident the EU’s legal-ethical framework -and the way of thinking about regulating 4IR tech- will change the story of making Europe fit for the Digital Age.

Please find the complete list of 25 recommendations here: https://stanford.io/32J7y12

03/04/2021

Thrilled to share that “The Right to Process Data for Machine Learning Purposes in the EU” has been published in the Harvard University, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Digest. Thank you to the JoLT editors for superb editorial support! 😎😀👍
https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/the-right-to-process-data-for-machine-learning-purposes-in-the-eu

Written in June 2020 as part of my ongoing Stanford University research, the article provides recommendations directly to the EC's DG Connect.

Data has become a primary resource that should not be enclosed, but used for the common good. We need not to think in terms of exclusive, private property on data but in terms of rights and freedoms to use.

There should be exceptions to (de facto, economic or legal) ownership claims on data that provide user rights and freedom to operate in the setting of AI model training. To ensure an efficiently functioning EU data-driven economy, a novel right to process data for machine learning purposes must be introduced to the field of AI & law. Such a right makes access, sharing and re-use of data possible, and helps to fulfil the European Strategy for Data’s desiderata.

The article draws inspiration from the works of canonical thinkers such as Locke, Marx, Kant & Hegel.

02/04/2021

"Vooruitlopend op spectaculaire doorbraken in de toepassing van kwantumtechnologie is de tijd nu rijp om regulatoire en intellectuele eigendomsstrategieën voor te bereiden die passen bij de power van deze veelbelovende technologie." 😎🤖😀

Nederland moet zich voorbereiden op de toepassing van kwantumtechnologie, zegt jurist en Stanford Law School Fellow Mauritz Kop. Op het gebied van regulering, intellectueel eigendom en ethiek is er nog veel werk aan de winkel. Regulering van transformatieve technologie is een dynamisch, cyclisch pro...

01/04/2021

Op 22 april aanstaande organiseren Platform voor de InformatieSamenleving en het Quantum Delta NL Living Lab Quantum and Society een webinar over quantumtechnologie. Aanmelden kan hier: https://ecp.nl/agenda/ecp-deelnemersspecial-quantumtechnologie-ontrafeld-hoe-nu-verder/ 😎👍

Datum: donderdag 22 april 2021 Tijd: 13.00 - 14.30 uur Vorm: webinar, aanmelden via deze link Op 22 april aanstaande organiseren ECP en Living Lab Quantum and Society het opvolgende webinar over quantumtechnologie. Waar het vorige keer ging over wát quantumtechnologie nu precies is, werpen we op 22...

31/03/2021

Extremely happy and privileged to share that the Yale Law School, Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) has just published my article ‘Establishing a Legal-Ethical Framework for Quantum Technology’. Many thanks to my amazing peers at Stanford Law
for helpful remarks, and to the Yale team for excellent editorial support! 👨‍🎓🤖😀

Quantum technologies are rapidly evolving from hypothetical ideas to commercial realities. As the world prepares for tangible applications, we should design solutions that can balance their transformational impact, and put controls in place that address identified risks & incentivise sustainable innovation.

Establishing a culturally sensitive legal-ethical framework for applied technologies can help to accomplish these goals. This can be built on rules and requirements for . We can enrich this prototype framework further by integrating ethical, legal & social issues ( ) associated with nanotechnology. The unique physical characteristics of quantum mechanics demand universal guiding of responsible, human-centered QT. To this end, the article proposes ten guiding principles for the development and application of QT.

By Mauritz Kop Yale Law School, Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) The Record 2021 New peer reviewed cross-disciplinary Stanford University Quantum & Law research article: “ Establishing a Legal-Ethical Framework for Quantum Technology ”. Citation: Kop, Mauritz, Estab