Conference
“Digital Knowledge – The Library and Copyright in a Global Digital Economy”

Susan Allen, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Policy and International Affairs

Susan Allen is an Attorney-Advisor (Copyright) with the USPTO’s Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA). She has nearly two decades of experience at top-tier law firms and the federal government covering copyright, trademark, artificial intelligence, open access, privacy, publicity rights, antitrust, and intermediary liability issues. She is a graduate of William and Mary Law School, holds a European Masters of Law and Economics (EMLE) from the University of Hamburg, and holds an economics degree from University of California, Davis.

Love Börjeson, KBLab, National Library of Sweden 

Love Börjeson (PhD) is head of KBLab and responsible for R&D at the National Library of Sweden. He is a Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics and expert for the European Commission in AI and Data-Intensive Supercomputing.

Cecile Christensen, Royal Danish Library

Cecile Christensen is the deputy director of the Royal Danish Library. Cecile is responsible for the digital transformation of the library. The Library has an ambition of using new technology and AI to create value for users and support a democratic knowledge-based society. Cecile has a background as a lawyer, and has worked with digitization of the public sector in Denmark for many years.

Alessandro Enrico Cogo, University of Turin

Alessandro Enrico Cogo (PhD, Pavia-Munich) is professor of intellectual property and business law at the University of Turin, where he serves as scientific director of the LL.M. in intellectual property jointly offered by the same University, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Turin School of Management, and the Consortium for Research and Permanent Education. Author of numerous scientific contributions on copyright, trademarks, and patents, he sits in the board of directors of AIDA (Annali Italiani di Diritto d’Autore, della cultura e dello spettacolo) and in the editorial committees of Giurisprudenza Italiana (business law section) and GADI (Giurisprudenza Annotata di Diritto Industriale). He is member of ALAI and AIPPI. In the latter association, he chairs the Italian study committee on copyright and sits in the international standing committee dealing with copyright and related rights. Partner at Weigmann Studio Legale, he practices in the field of intellectual property law.

Emmanuelle Du Chalard, European Commission

Emmanuelle Du Chalard is working in the European Commission as the head of the Copyright Unit in DG CONNECT. She has been working on copyright policy and legislation for the last ten years.
She worked in a management consultancy before joining the European Commission. Emmanuelle holds a Master degree of the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris.

Alison Firth, Newcastle University

Vice-Chairman, British Literary & Artistic Copyright Association (UK branch of ALAI), visiting professor Newcastle University, emeritus professor Surrey University, visiting professorial fellow Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, barrister (England and Wales).

Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt University 

Daniel J. Gervais, PhD, is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, where he serves as Director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program and Co-Director of the LLM Program. In 2022, he held the Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Carleton University in Ottawa. From 2017 to 2019, he also held a part-time chair in information law at the University of Amsterdam, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he
was the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) of the University of Ottawa. He has been visiting professor at several major universities in Europe and Asia. Prior to joining the Academy, Prof. Gervais was successively Legal Officer at the GATT (now WTO), Head of Section at WIPO, and Vice-President of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC). He was elected
to the Academy of Europe in 2012. He is a member of the American Law Institute, where he serves as an Associate Reporter on the Restatement of the Law, Copyright Project. He is a past president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). Professor Gervais studied computer science and law at the University of Montréal, McGill University, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI Geneva) and the University of Nantes. He is the author of a leading treatise on the WTO TRIPS Agreement (Sweet & Maxwell, 5th edition 2023), an edited book on the international collective management of copyright (Kluwer, 4th edition 2025), and a “sci-fi legal story” titled Forever, the first part of the Coexistence Trilogy, a reflection on the interaction between humans and AI. He also published books published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, among others. His research has been published in many of the world's leading law reviews,  a number of peer-reviewed journals (Springer, Wiley), Science and Nature.

Jane Ginsburg, Columbia University School of Law

Jane C. Ginsburg, BA, MA University of Chicago; JD Harvard; DEA, Doctorat en droit Université de Paris Panthéon-Assas; Doct. honoris causa University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law, and Co-Director of its Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. She teaches Copyright Law, International Copyright Law, Trademarks Law, Legal Methods, and Statutory Interpretation, and is an author of books in all five subjects, and of many articles on domestic and international copyright law. 

Anikó Grad-Gyenge, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

She is the Deputy Dean for Science and Innovation at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Budapest University of Technology and Head of the Department of Business Law, habilitated associate professor. She finished her studies at the Liszt Academy of Music in 2003, then graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the ELTE in 2004, where she obtained his PhD in copyright law in 2010. From 2003 to 2010, she worked on copyright codification and EU harmonisation at the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement, since 2007 as head of the department responsible for this area.
Since 2010 she has been an advisor of the ProArt Association for Copyright. She is a member of the Copyright Advisory Board and has led the Hungarian localisation of Creative Commons and the European Public Licence. She is editor of the journals Infocommunication and Law, Periodica Politechnica Social and Economic Sciences, Bibó Review of Politology and Law, In Medias Res. Since September 2010, she has been a lecturer at the Department of Civil Law and Roman Law of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, and was Associate Professor. Since 2017 she has been Head of the Department of Business Law at the Budapest University of Technology and Economic Sciences, and since 2020 she has been Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science and Innovation. She is the Vice President of the Copyright Forum Association and ALAI Hungary. She is a two-time Bolyai Fellow.

Matt Hervey, Gowling WLG

Matt Hervey is General Editor of The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell) and head of Artificial Intelligence Law at Gowling WLG. He has been recognized as "one of the leading global experts in AI and IP" by the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, is co-chair of AIPLA's AI subcommittee and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2022 for leadership in the field of AI.

He is an authority on Generative AI, advising governments, inter-governmental entities and household-name clients. His work includes advising on AI policies, procurement, training and fine-tuning AI models, vetting datasets, leveraging international divergences in the law and technical, practical, ethical and legal mitigations against the risks of unlawful and inappropriate outputs. His guidelines on Generative AI for WIPO have been downloaded over 23,000 times.

Matt is a UK partner in the IP team of Gowling WLG and also an expert in SEP-FRAND, life sciences and trade secrets disputes. He is included in Chambers & Partners as a Global Market Leader for AI, in IAM Strategy 300 (the World's Leading IP Strategists), IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders and in IAM 1000 as "a recognised authority on AI and all SEP/FRAND issues" and for trade secrets. Matt has been described by Legal 500 as "stand out" and "absolutely superb" for patent disputes and by JUVE Patent as a "leading individual" for patent litigation. 

Anna Jardfelt, Patent- och registreringsverket

Anna Jardfelt was appointed Director General of the Swedish Intellectual Property Office in August 2024. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Jardfelt served as a career diplomat holding such positions as Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Ambassador to Kenya, Permanent Representative to UNEP and UN-Habitat in Nairobi and Ambassador to the European Union’s Political and Security Committee in Brussels.  Between 2010-2014 she served as the Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Ms. Jardfelt has a Master of Law Degree. She is married with two children.

Paweł Kamocki, CLARIN ERIC / IDS Mannheim

Paweł Kamocki is a researcher at the Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache and Chair of the CLARIN Legal and Ethical Issues Committee. He holds a Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.) degree (Münster, Paris), as well as a Master’s degree in linguistics (Warsaw), and graduated from the Paris Barrister Training School. His scientific interests are centered around legal issues affecting data-intensive science, especially in the field of linguistics and Digital Humanities; he published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these questions. He also co-chaired the Working group on Data Access and Re-Use Policies and helped develop such Legal Tech tools as the Public License Selector and the DARIAH ELDAH Consent Form Wizard.

Tobias Kempas, Advokatfirman Vinge KB

Tobias Kempas, counsel and attorney at law, specialises in intellectual property and marketing law, with extensive experience in dispute resolution, commercial agreements and strategic advice. He represents and assists clients in a wide range of industries, both in and out of court, in matters involving copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, marketing and more. Tobias has written several articles on copyright and trademark law and lectures frequently on these topics. His recent book on AI and IP, published by Norstedts Juridik, has received very positive reviews.

Karol Kościński, ZAiKS

Karol Kościński is the Deputy CEO of ZAiKS - Central Eastern Europe's biggest collective management organisation. He is responsible for licensing and international cooperation. Before, as a Director of the IP and Media Department in the Polish Ministry of Culture, he was responsible for domestic legislation in the field of copyright and media law and represented Poland during negotiations of EU law in these areas within the EU Council and when necessary in front of Court of Justice of the EU.
He also worked as an expert in technical assistance projects, mostly but not exclusively in the field of intellectual property, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the US Department of Trade, the EU Commission and the United Nations Development Programme in Montenegro, Armenia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bhutan, Moldova, Serbia and Kosovo.

Anne Le Morvan, French ministry of culture

Anne Le Morvan, Head of the copyright unit in the general secretariate of the ministry of culture since 2011, joined the ministry in 2000 where she was in charge with the european and international questions related to copyright. She is a law graduate from a french  University. She was an assistant in a law university during a couple of years, and worked in a research institute for copyright.

Rudolf Leska, University of Finance and Administration

Dr. Rudolf Leška, Ph.D. (Charles University), LL.M. (University of San Francisco) is partner at a copyright boutique firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI (PRAHA - BRATISLAVA). He holds the position of Senior Assistant Professor in copyright and media law at the University of Finance and Administration in Prague and is Associate Research Fellow at the Palacký University Olomouc. He has lad numerous academic projects and serves as current president of ALAI Czech Republic.

Jukka Liedes, Finnish Copyright Society

Jukka Liedes, former Director, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland. Chairman of the Finnish Copyright Society and the Finnish Group of ALAI. Since October 2014, an independent expert. His responsibilities in the Ministry included national policies on copyright, public libraries, audiovisual sector, cultural heritage, the national institutions in the field culture and heritage. He has been Chairman of various bodies in the EU, WIPO, Unesco, Council of Europe, and Nordic Council of Ministers, dealing with i.a. copyright, culture, media, information society, and trade.

Karin Lodin, National Library of Sweden

Head of legal, National Library of Sweden

Shira Perlmutter, U.S. Copyright Office

Shira Perlmutter is the Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office. Appointed
in October 2020, Perlmutter advises Congress and executive branch agencies on copyright policy
and directs the administration of important provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, leading a workforce of
nearly 500 employees.
Prior to her appointment as Register, Perlmutter had served since 2012 as Chief Policy Officer and
Director for International Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that
position, Perlmutter was a policy advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
and oversaw the USPTO’s domestic and international IP policy activities, including through the Office
of Governmental Affairs, the Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA), the IP Attaché Program,
and the Office of the Chief Economist.
Before joining the USPTO, Perlmutter was Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Prior to that, she held the position of
Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Time Warner.
Perlmutter previously worked at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva
as a consultant on copyright and electronic commerce. In 1995, she was appointed as the first Associate
Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office.
From 1990 through 1995, Perlmutter was a law professor at The Catholic University of America,
teaching copyright, trademark, and unfair competition law, as well as international intellectual
property law. While on the faculty, she was the copyright consultant to the Clinton Administration’s
Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. Earlier in her career, she practiced law in New York City, specializing in copyright and trademark counseling and litigation. She is a co-author of a leading casebook on international intellectual property law and policy, has published numerous articles on copyright issues, and is a research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at Oxford University.
Perlmutter received an AB from Harvard University and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Simone Procas, The New York Times Company

Simone Procas serves as intellectual property counsel for The New York Times and oversees it global IP protection and enforcement strategy.  She works closely with the newsroom and the business teams to advise on IP matters, oversees pre-publication fair use review and advises on matters related to generative artificial intelligence.

Tito Rendas, Católica Global School of Law

Tito Rendas is Executive Dean and Assistant Professor at Católica Global School of Law, where he also co-coordinates the LL.M. in Law in a Digital Economy. He holds a law degree, an LL.M. and a Ph.D. from Católica, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. His Ph.D. thesis, on the topic of exceptions in EU copyright law, has been published by Kluwer Law International and his research articles have featured in international journals, including the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, the Journal of Internet Law, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, and the European Intellectual Property Review. He is also a Visiting Professor in the LL.M. in Business, Competition and Regulatory Law at Freie Universität Berlin and in the LL.M. in European IP Law at Stockholm University.

Eleonora Rosati, Stockholm University

Eleonora Rosati is Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University and Of Counsel at Bird & Bird. She also holds guest/visiting positions at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Queen Mary University of London, 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, including - most recently - Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (Oxford University Press:2023, 2nd edn) and Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Article-by-Article Commentary to the Provisions of Directive 2019/790 (Oxford University Press:2021), 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 and has been featured in prominent media outlets, including inter alia The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, CNN, BBC, and Politico.

Jan Rosen, Stockholm University 

Professor of Private Law, Stockholm University, Faculty of Law, chair of the media law grouping at Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, SCCL, Vice President of ALAI and passed president of ATRIP.

Jerker Rydén, National Library of Sweden

 

Kirsi Salmela, Kopiosto

L.LM Kirsi Salmela works as the Head of Legal in Copyright Society Kopiosto in Finland. Salmela has over 20 years experiences as a copyright lawyer.
She has written an article "Extended collective licence in cross-border digital use".

Carlo Scollo Lavizzari

Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, a lawyer qualified in Switzerland, South Africa, England & Wales, specializes in intellectual property with more than 21 years of experience with law firms in Africa, Europe, Switzerland and the United States of America. He is a strategist and problem solver in negotiations, conflict resolution and policy. Carlo participates in advocacy for norm setting and high-stakes litigation, on all five continents. Depending on client need, Carlo brings together proven specialists from a range of areas and across the world. Carlo is fluent in English, French German and Italian.

Noam Shemtov, Centre for Commercial Law, Queen Mary University 

Professor Noam Shemtov joined the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in Queen Mary – University of London in September 2009. He is a Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at CCLS and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. He lectures in areas of intellectual property, Technology and creative industries and his research interests are also focused in these fields.
 
Professor Shemtov has led research projects and studies funded by UK Research Councils and by industry, national, supranational and commercial organizations, such as AHRC, CISAC, Microsoft, WIPO, European Patent Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Space Agency.

Since 2017, Professor Shemtov has been exploring the convergence of intellectual property law and artificial intelligence technology, specifically within the realms of copyright and patent laws. Amongst others, he has notably authored the study commissioned by the European patent Office on AI-assisted inventions and the concept of inventorship and has acted as a legal expert to the UK IPO on issue related to patent law and artificial intelligence and to the UK Parliament on matters pertaining to copyright law and artificial intelligence.

Beyond his contributions in the UK, Professor Shemtov holds visiting appointments at universities in Spain, France, and the Netherlands, where he lectures regularly on intellectual property law, technology, and creative industries. His influence in the field is recognized on the European Patent Office’s list of 50 most celebrated leading voices in sustainable innovation over the years. Qualified to practice law in both the UK and Israel, Noam Shemtov brings a wealth of expertise and international perspective to his roles.

Molly Stech, STM

Molly Stech is STM’s General Counsel. Previously, Molly worked for the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s copyright policy team. She has also been a consultant for WIPO and is an adjunct professor of law. She has written and published a variety of law review articles on both intellectual property and cultural property issues in American and European law journals. She is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and completed a post-graduate legal fellowship in comparative copyright law at the University of Edinburgh.

Bill Thompson, BBC Research & Development

Bill Thompson is Head of Public Value Research in BBC Research & Development, guiding BBC product and technology strategy.  He has worked in and around the internet since 1984 and was head of new media for Guardian Newspapers in the mid 1990's. He joined the BBC in 2009 as head of partnerships for the archive development team. He is an adjunct Professor at Southampton University, a member of the Web Science Trust, and on the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute. 

Tatsuhiro Ueno, Waseda University

Professor of Law at Waseda University; Director of the Research Centre for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP) of Waseda University. He is considered as a leading copyright law specialist in Japan and beyond, and is the author of the Japan part of the multi-volume sets Copyright Throughout the World (Thomson/West) and International Copyright Law and Practice (Matthew Bender).

Stef van Gompel, VU Amsterdam

Full Professor of Intellectual Property at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, member of the Dutch Copyright Committee (advisory council to the Minister of Justice of the Netherlands), chair of the editorial board of the Dutch copyright journal Auteursrecht, deputy chair of the Standing Committee on Plagiarism (Buma/Stemra), board member of Reprorecht (Dutch reprographic reproduction rights foundation) and former president of the Dutch national group of AIPPI.

Catherine Zaller Rowland, Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

Catherine Zaller Rowland is Vice President, General Counsel, at CCC where she oversees the Legal Department and advises on complex issues including copyright licensing, software, professional services, and the intersection of copyright and emerging technologies. Previously, Rowland held a range of positions in the private sector and federal government, focusing on intellectual property matters. Most recently, she served as Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of the Office of Public Information and Education at the U.S. Copyright Office, where she was one of four principal legal advisors to the head of the Copyright Office. She began her legal career in private practice focusing on intellectual property litigation, transactions, and counseling.