Yesterday saw a historic meeting between representatives of various art law clinics from around the world, including Germany, Georgia, South Africa and Austria. The videocast conversation, hosted by Nikolaus Forgo from the University of Vienna, covers the history, current activities, challenges and future of these clinics. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkdQ5I9S5xg&t=1990s Here are the most important findings from […]
Category Archives: Announcements
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May
May
In the video created in my lecture on copyright law at the University of Vienna, Marcel and Umut from the University of Vienna deal with the complex topic of “AI and copyright in Austrian legal practice” in a deliberately satirical way. Through humorous exaggerations, stereotypical depictions of experts and absurd interview situations, it sheds light […]
13
May
May
Artificial intelligence, law and philosophy Yesterday I had a very exciting interview with my colleague Professor Dr. Holger Lyre (University of Magdeburg) about the possibilities and limits of AI. The famous philosopher of science spoke in detail about the dangers of deep learning and large language models. The interview can be seen on YouTube at
11
Apr
Apr
That was a really exciting visit. Together with my students from the copyright law course, I visited Manz Verlag in Vienna. Managing Director Dr. Pichler and his staff gave us an introduction to the changes in copyright law that await publishers in the age of AI. His employees gave us a detailed and exciting explanation […]
31
Mar
Mar
We continue! After developing and expanding the legal mentor at ChatGPT, we are now moving on to trainee lawyer training. We have created a new bot for prosecutor file processing. Many thanks to Ref. Stefanie Peters for her help. Since my experience as a public prosecutor is more than 30 years old, I would be […]
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Mar
Mar
Free e-learning on the protection of intellectual property (IP) provides an introduction to patent, copyright, trademark and design law as well as trade secret law. A quick course for basic knowledge in the field of intellectual property rights – available online and free of charge: With the IP driving license, PROvendis GmbH, in cooperation with […]
01
Mar
Mar
We’re done !!! I have now dedicated myself to the further development of the new AI project. After extensive brainstorming and numerous considerations (also by the tireless ITM employee Merlin Rombach – thank you, thank you, thank you), I can now present the first iteration of the RechtsMentor – ITM GPT (link below). In my […]
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Feb
Feb
Yesterday, a large audience attended the event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Intellectual Property Research Center at the University of Münster. The keynote speaker was former ITM doctoral candidate and former presiding judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, Professor Dr. Thomas Kühnen, who gave a fascinating presentation on the relationship between antitrust law […]
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Feb
Feb
The “Best of ITM” experiment has come to a successful end. In their seminar papers, 10 students had to read, review and check the topicality of old ITM doctoral theses. The enthusiastic reviewers selected from a pool of more than 200 dissertations on blockchain law, consumer and data protection on the internet, copyright law […]
