Navigating the (Legal) Challenges of the Artificial Intelligence Era
Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Corporate Law
Published on 26. March 2026
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-94-035-0300-4 (ISBN)
Description
Information Law Series
As AI systems increasingly permeate corporate decision-making, consumer markets, research, education, and cultural production, they offer unprecedented opportunities for innovation while simultaneously raising fundamental regulatory, ethical, and legal challenges. In this timely and important book, a distinguished group of European scholars investigates how law and policy are responding to the multifaceted disruptions brought about by AI, focusing on issues of intellectual property, competition law, and corporate law.
In the context of AI's legal challenges, the chapters present an in-depth analysis of such aspects as the following:
- the European regulatory framework governing the intersection of copyright and AI;
- how copyright law should treat outputs produced by artificial intelligence;
- authors' remuneration rights and AI innovation;
- balancing broad access to knowledge with the protection of authors' moral and material interests as human rights;
- enforcement of brand protection in the digital environment;
- adequacy of existing regimes for database protection in the age of AI;
- anti-discrimination value of morality-based exclusions from patentability;
- challenges for antitrust enforcement in the era of AI;
- necessity to protect diversity and freedom of choice in competition law;
- corporate and financial transformations induced by digitalization; and
- imperative to establish internal controls to ensure responsible use of AI systems.
The volume is rich with comparative insights and critical reflections on relevant case law, regulatory initiatives, and enforcement challenges.
In its exploration of sustainability, ethics, and fundamental rights as emerging parameters in the legal governance of AI, these chapters collectively present a comprehensive and critical account of the evolving legal landscape of AI. They underscore both the enduring relevance of established legal doctrines and the pressing need for their reinterpretation in light of technological change. The book will be welcomed by practitioners, scholars, and policymakers, equipping them with critical tools to navigate and anticipate the evolving legal framework of AI.
As AI systems increasingly permeate corporate decision-making, consumer markets, research, education, and cultural production, they offer unprecedented opportunities for innovation while simultaneously raising fundamental regulatory, ethical, and legal challenges. In this timely and important book, a distinguished group of European scholars investigates how law and policy are responding to the multifaceted disruptions brought about by AI, focusing on issues of intellectual property, competition law, and corporate law.
In the context of AI's legal challenges, the chapters present an in-depth analysis of such aspects as the following:
- the European regulatory framework governing the intersection of copyright and AI;
- how copyright law should treat outputs produced by artificial intelligence;
- authors' remuneration rights and AI innovation;
- balancing broad access to knowledge with the protection of authors' moral and material interests as human rights;
- enforcement of brand protection in the digital environment;
- adequacy of existing regimes for database protection in the age of AI;
- anti-discrimination value of morality-based exclusions from patentability;
- challenges for antitrust enforcement in the era of AI;
- necessity to protect diversity and freedom of choice in competition law;
- corporate and financial transformations induced by digitalization; and
- imperative to establish internal controls to ensure responsible use of AI systems.
The volume is rich with comparative insights and critical reflections on relevant case law, regulatory initiatives, and enforcement challenges.
In its exploration of sustainability, ethics, and fundamental rights as emerging parameters in the legal governance of AI, these chapters collectively present a comprehensive and critical account of the evolving legal landscape of AI. They underscore both the enduring relevance of established legal doctrines and the pressing need for their reinterpretation in light of technological change. The book will be welcomed by practitioners, scholars, and policymakers, equipping them with critical tools to navigate and anticipate the evolving legal framework of AI.