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June 4, 2025

Rethinking AI Regulation: What Europe Can Learn from Japan

In a world of headline-grabbing bans, sweeping fines, and regulatory manifestos, Japan has taken a quiet but revolutionary path toward AI governance. With the May 2025 enactment of its first comprehensive AI law, Japan is charting a distinctly pragmatic course—one that prioritizes flexibility, accountability, and innovation. All without drowning businesses in compliance checklists. For those watching the European Union’s regulatory ambitions unfold, the contrast could not be starker. And for the United Kingdom, still shaping...

artificial intelligence, Blog Post, copyright
May 28, 2025

Spinning Disruption: A History of Creative Industry Alarm Bells

The UK's creative industries (and their counterparts across the globe) are, yet again, sounding the alarm. The new "threat"? Generative Artificial Intelligence. The campaign? "Make it Fair." Launched in early 2025, it decries AI models "scraping" creative content without permission or payment, posing a "huge threat" to an industry allegedly worth billions to the UK economy. Government proposals for a copyright exception for text and data mining (TDM) are labeled "content theft" with potentially...

artificial intelligence, Blog Post, copyright
February 26, 2025

Read, Rethink, Reform: Why a Strong TDM Exception for Research Matters Now More Than Ever

What’s it About A well-functioning text and data mining (TDM) exception is essential to AI-driven scientific research and education in Europe. However, as Dr. João Pedro Quintais 🟥 (Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam) highlights in his latest study, legal uncertainty around the definition of a "research organisation" in EU law creates fragmentation across Member States. This inconsistency affects (cross-border) AI research, public-private partnerships, and the ability of institutions to leverage TDM without...

artificial intelligence, Blog Post, copyright, digital rights, European policy, R&I