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Igor Szpotakowski
@iszpotakowski.bsky.social
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in IP Law at University of Leeds. Passionate about copyright, Chinese law, tech law, AI, and digitalisation. With a sip of Roman Law 📚 - https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/2704/igor-szpotakowski
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sententiaepauli.bsky.social
Out in September. Available to pre-order now from all good online bookstores. #HenryMaine #AncientLaw
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-henry-m...
Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism
Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism
edinburghuniversitypress.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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colinmurray.bsky.social
Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to [email protected] by 7 July.
June 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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loreldridge.bsky.social
Enjoy land law? Want to hear me wax lyrical about how great Benjamin Cherry was, and how he drafted the LPA 1925 and its sibling statutes? There will be archives, intense political bargaining, and hot takes from Edwardian lawyers.

Cambridge 20 May (hybrid)

Oxford 27 May (in person)
May 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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iszpotakowski.bsky.social
Happy to share my new piece 'As you know, our (geo)blockade is perfectly legal’ - EU, the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the future of copyright law' for
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice! Bonus: snuck in a Star Wars Easter egg. Link below. @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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lawatleeds.bsky.social
Congatulations, Igor!

#GeoBlocking #Copyright #CopyrightLaw #Academia #AcademicSky #LawSky @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Read at: academic.oup.com/jiplp/advanc...
April 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
iszpotakowski.bsky.social
Happy to share my new piece 'As you know, our (geo)blockade is perfectly legal’ - EU, the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the future of copyright law' for
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice! Bonus: snuck in a Star Wars Easter egg. Link below. @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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lawatleeds.bsky.social
Are you interested in the relations between Indigenous peoples, business and government? Come along to our 2-day conference: 'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making?'
Sign up 👇

www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...?

#IPLaw #IntellectualProperty #Indigenous #LawSky #AcademicLaw
Select tickets – Conference: A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? – Liberty Building
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning Against the Odds for Human Rights, Equity, and Indigenous Peopl...
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April 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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benfarrand.bsky.social
Whether this is the ‘death of globalisation’ ultimately depends on how you understand globalisation. 🧵
April 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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tnhh.org
We have an endowed chair in AI here at St Andrews. Closing date 5 May. Please consider applying. It would be great to have a new colleague interested in ethics or regulation (that said, I am not on the hiring panel). www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Professor in Artificial Intelligence (Chair) - AC2605LS
Professor in Artificial Intelligence (Chair) - AC2605LS, School of Computer Science Salary: Grade 9/by negotiation Start Date: As soon as possible , <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The Unive...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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lawatleeds.bsky.social
📅 Save the date! 8-9 May
'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-Making?' will be an unmissable event! Check out the agenda👇
@cblpleeds.bsky.social @lsjleeds.bsky.social @grahamdutfield.bsky.social @subhajitbasu.bsky.social @iszpotakowski.bsky.social
#IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #Equity
March 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
iszpotakowski.bsky.social
A programme of a two-day international conference on 'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-Making?' hosted by @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social
on 8–9 May 2025 is now available online. The conference is part-funded by the Society of Legal Scholars 👇
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning Against the Odds for Human Rights, Equity, and Indigenous Peoples
This conference aims to contribute to global discussions on IP treaty-making and explore how marginalised groups can successfully influence treaty outcomes.
essl.leeds.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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michae.lv
if this area of law and practice seems like w mess, that’s because it is. @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and I have a forthcoming piece about the practical and legal difficulties accessing user messages/device data on their personal devices using various information rights here… doi.org/10.31219/osf...
March 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
iszpotakowski.bsky.social
Excited to see my paper 'Self-Regulation and Pre-Market Licensing as Methods of Controlling GenAI in the People's Republic of China – Preliminary Observations' finally published in Polish as part of my cooperation with the University of Warsaw! Great to see this in print.
@lawatleeds.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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loreldridge.bsky.social
I've got a pile of books awaiting review for the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, on Equity; private law theory; and public/private law intersection. If you'd be interested, drop me a DM/email whether PhD/ECR, practitioner, or experienced academic. Usually comes with a free hardback copy!
March 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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technollama.bsky.social
The end of digital property

I've been thinking a lot about cyberpunk recently for various reasons. Not only have I been re-reading some old classics such as Neuromancer and Snow Crash, but I am starting to see many worrying trends depicted in dystopian novels in everyday life. But perhaps one of…
The end of digital property
I've been thinking a lot about cyberpunk recently for various reasons. Not only have I been re-reading some old classics such as Neuromancer and Snow Crash, but I am starting to see many worrying trends depicted in dystopian novels in everyday life. But perhaps one of the biggest misses from the genre when describing future technologies has been the Metaverse, that vast online space where we would be spending most of our daily existence via the use of virtual reality.
www.technollama.co.uk
March 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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lawatleeds.bsky.social
Check out this new article about Dr @iszpotakowski.bsky.social's recent research on generative AI models! 👇

tinyurl.com/mvevvu9u

@cblpleeds.bsky.social
#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #AIRegulation
Background picture of Warsaw. #News flare. Smiling photo of Dr Igor Szpotakowski in bottom left. Text reads: 'Dr Igor Szpotakowski questions current gaps in AI regulation. Through two events in February, Dr Szpotakowski disseminated his research findings on important concerns regarding generative AI models.'
March 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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paolosandro.bsky.social
Would any legal or political philosopher on here be willing to share a (successful) visiting fellowship application with me? Pint on me first time you are in the North of England!
March 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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lawatleeds.bsky.social
📣 New book alert!!
'The Future of Geographical Indications: European and Global Perspectives', co-edited by Dr @anzapp.bsky.social, is out now with Edward Elgar Publishing.
Read more below!
tinyurl.com/mpusvt6n
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky #LawSky
Image of Halloumi on a griddle to left. To right, image of Dr Zappalaglio’s edited book. A smiling portrait of Dr Zappalaglio in a circle at the bottom
March 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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ignaciocofone.bsky.social
At the Institute for Ethics in AI, we’re looking to hire a postdoc fellow in law working on AI ​law/regulation together with the fabulous Oriel College, starting ​this fall (2-3 ys). Oxford will announce the details in the coming weeks but please share with people who might be interested
February 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
iszpotakowski.bsky.social
On Monday 17.02 I had the pleasure of presenting our paper with @lilianedwards.bsky.social & Gabriele Cifrodelli at "AI and Scots Law: Transforming the Future" at Uni of Dundee. Big thanks to dr Lorna Gillies & dr Michiel Poesen for an amazing event with an impressive lineup of Law & Tech experts!
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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tnhh.org
This pretend lawyer is off to Dundee to discuss AI with some real lawyers @lilianedwards.bsky.social @andrewdmurray.bsky.social @burkhardschafer.bsky.social and semi-real lawyer @michae.lv
Programme for workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Scots Law: Transforming the Future
February 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
iszpotakowski.bsky.social
What a shift this morning! Interesting that the Chinese equivalent of the UK's AISI - 中国人工智能发展与安全研究网络 - could be translated as either 'China AI Development and 'Safety' Research Network' or 'Security' RN. If they ever decide to update their English name too, it wouldn’t be a big change!
February 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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lilianedwards.bsky.social
You can!!
And the team supreme who wrote it will be riffing on it IN PERSON in Dundee on Feb 17th
! ( details shortly)
iszpotakowski.bsky.social Igor Szpotakowski @iszpotakowski.bsky.social · Feb 10
Just a reminder that in the inaugural issue of #CambridgeForum on AI, you can find our article, "Private Ordering, GenAI, and the ‘Platformisation Paradigm’: What Can We Learn from a Comparative Analysis of Models’ T&C?" 👇

@lilianedwards.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
iszpotakowski.bsky.social
Just a reminder that in the inaugural issue of #CambridgeForum on AI, you can find our article, "Private Ordering, GenAI, and the ‘Platformisation Paradigm’: What Can We Learn from a Comparative Analysis of Models’ T&C?" 👇

@lilianedwards.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM