Music Copyright: The Text and Data Mining Exceptions and the EU's AI Act

The 5th annual IMRO/Law Society of Ireland Copyright lecture will take place in May this year in the Law Society lecture theatre at Blackhall Place.  The topic will be Music Copyright: The Text and Data Mining Exceptions and the EU's AI Act.

Speakers include: 
Dr Mark Hyland, Law Society IMRO adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property
In March 2020, Dr. Mark Hyland was appointed a lecturer at the Faculty of Business, Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin). From 2010 to 2020, Dr Hyland was a lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law at Bangor University Law School, Wales. His main field of research is Copyright Law with a special focus on digital copyright. He also has a strong interest in the interface between Intellectual Property Law and related fields such as Information Technology Law and, Competition Law. In 2016, he was awarded a Bangor University Teaching Fellowship for his commitment to teaching excellence and student support. 
Dr. Hyland was awarded his PhD by Newcastle University in 2014 for a thesis that critically evaluates the application of the tort Private International Law rules to the internet, using online copyright infringements as a case study. 
In June 2019, he was appointed the inaugural IMRO adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Law Society of Ireland.  
Dr. Hyland’s research has been published in specialist law journals such as Law, Innovation and Technology, the European Intellectual Property Review, Communications Law and Computer and Telecommunications Law Review. His most recent article ‘The Knottiest of Gordian Knots: Article 17 of the Copyright Directive’ was published in the European Intellectual Property Review in January 2023 ((2023) 45,  E.I.P.R., Issue 1). 
Dr Hyland is a qualified solicitor and, from time to time, contributes articles on EU IP/IT Law developments to the Law Society Gazette, - the leading law magazine for the solicitors’ profession in Ireland.   

Professor Eleonora Rosati Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University and Of Counsel at Bird & Bird. 
Eleanora also holds guest/visiting positions at several other institutions, including Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CEIPI-Université de Strasbourg, Trinity College Dublin, EDHEC Business School, Glion Institute of Higher Education, and Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. Eleonora is Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press), long-standing contributor to The IPKat, and Co-Founder of Fashion Law London. The author of several scholarly articles and books on IP issues, Eleonora regularly prepares technical briefings and expert opinions and delivers talks at the request of inter alia international organizations and EU institutions and agencies, as well as national governments and professional bodies and organizations. She has received multiple accolades and prizes for her work in the IP field, including: Managing Intellectual Property’s '50 Most Influential People in IP' globally (2018); World Intellectual Property Review’s 'Influential Women in IP' (2020); Adepi Award 2022 for contribution to shaping the interpretation of IP law in Europe (2022).

Mr John Phelan, Director General of the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP), the global trade body for the music publishing industry. 
The ICMP represents and defends the rights behind approximately 90% of the world's commercially released music. Prior to being appointed DG at ICMP in 2018, Mr Phelan represented the recorded music sector at the trade body, IFPI. He has a very interesting background in that he studied Law and then orchestral conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.He has also worked extensively in EU digital policy, to include IP regulation.

Mr Jeremy Godfrey, Executive Chairperson Coimisiún na Meán. 
Jeremy Godfrey has over 30 years of regulatory, government and business experience in the communications, technology and online sectors, in Ireland and Hong Kong. Jeremy was Chairperson of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). Previously he served eight years as a Commissioner and Chairperson of the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). During that time, he also served as Chair and vice-Chair of BEREC, the coordinating body for EU telecoms regulators. In Hong Kong, he served as Government Chief Information Officer, as a management consultant and as a senior executive in the telecommunications sector. Jeremy has been involved in regulatory developments such as the EU’s Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and the Open Internet Regulation. As Hong Kong Government CIO, he had responsibility for the e-government programme and cloud computing strategy, as well as for Internet governance, digital inclusion and promoting online safety. As a consultant, he advised clients about online business strategies and on regulatory issues in the communications, energy, transportation and financial services sectors. While in the telecommunications industry he was involved in the launch of the world’s first commercial online video-on-demand service as well as in many regulatory issues. Jeremy started his career as a civil servant in the UK government. He holds an MA from Cambridge University, where he studied mathematics.

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