The dominant liability regime for platform intermediaries is about to change. The EU appears to be moving from an obligation to act upon knowledge obtained (“safe harbour”) to an obligation to prevent “online harm”. A multidisciplinary panel will explore what this means for intellectual property law in the context of the global agenda on platform regulation (fake news, security, child protection, market dominance, data sovereignty).

Session Chair: Martin Kretschmer, CREATe, University of Glasgow
Participants: Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam / Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin / Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley / Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow / Sebastian Schwemer, University of Copenhagen