SERCIAC 2026

2026 Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues

Conference details are available here: https://www.ivir.nl/events/serciac-2026/

Day 1: Monday, July 6th

8:30am	Walk-in & coffee
8:50am	Welcome address:
8:50am	Ariel Katz (SERCI President), and Joost Poort (University of Amsterdam)
9:00am	Session 1: SERCI Annual Guest Keynote Lecture Chairperson: Ariel Katz (University of Toronto)
9:00am	Speaker: Imke Reimers (Cornell University), “Copyright: Effects of Digitization and Implications for LLMs”
10:00am	Coffee break
10:30am	Session 2: Artificial Intelligence Chairperson: Kristelia Garcia (Georgetown University)
	Christian Handke (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), “Machines Will Not Replace Us: Generative AI, Artists Labour Markets and the Need for Certification”
	Timothy Hsieh (Oklahoma City University), “‘I Don’t Want Your AI Slop, or Pink Slime Either’: Market Substitution, Brown Shoe Submarkets, and the Fourth Fair Use Factor in the Age of Generative AI”
	Sepehr Shahshahani (Washington University School of Law), “Market Design for AI. Beyond the copyright binary”
	Zachary Cooper (Weizenbaum Institute / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), “Cre-AI-tive Control: Interventions Against the Privatisation of Creativity and Copyright in the Age of AI Assisted Works”
12:30pm	Lunch break
1:30pm	Session 3: The Creative Economy Chairperson: Christian Handke (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
	Dimiter Gantchev (Visiting Professor, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London), “The Role of Data in the Creative Economy”
	Giovanni Ramello (University of Turin), “Labour Division and Imitation in Creative Markets”
	Ruth Towse (University of Bournemouth), “Cost-Benefit Analysis, Copyright Law and AI: The UK Experience of Policy Change”
	Felipe Buitrago (WIPO), “The Creative Eco-System Diagnostic Model”
3:30pm	Coffee break
4:00pm	Session 4: Copyright Registrations Chairperson: Richard Watt (University of Canterbury)
	Xiaoren Wang (University of Dundee and CREATe), “Creatively Misinformed: Mining Social Media to Capture Internet Creators and Users’ Misunderstanding of Copyright Registration”
	Ryan Safner (US Copyright Office), “What Copyrights Are Registered?”
5:00pm	SERCI AGM
5:15pm	Drinks
6:30pm	SERCI gala supper

Day 2: Tuesday, July 7th

8:30am	Walk-in & coffee
9:00am	Session 5: Copyright Industries Chairperson: Ruth Towse (University of Bournemouth)
	Antanina Garansvilli (London Metropolitan University), “Intellectual Property Right Bundling by Firms in Copyright-Intensive Industries”
	Michael Palmedo (US Copyright Office), “AI Skill Demand and Employment Stratification in Copyright-Intensive Information Industries: Evidence from Job Postings and Industry-Level Employment Data”
	Martin Kretschmer (University of Glasgow and CREATe), “Knowledge Markets of Dysfunction: Do Libraries Have a Future?”
	Gerry Wall (Wall Communications), “Profile of Canadian Copyright Collective Administrations”
10:00am	Coffee break
10:30am	Session 6: Piracy, Enforcement and Fair Use Chairperson: Giovanni Ramello (University of Turin)
	Brett Dannaher (Chapman University), “The Incremental Effect of High-Quality Piracy Sources on Theatrical Revenue”
	Hannibal Travis (Florida International University), “Reliable Sources? The Fake News Scare and the Decline of Fair Use in USA”
	Christian Peukert (University of Lausanne), “Platform Governance and Automated Enforcement: Evidence From YouTube Content ID”
	Juliana Paixão (FGV Rio), “Is Copyright a Barrier to Algorithmic Accountability?”
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Session 7: Music Chairperson: Brett Dannaher (Chapman University)
	Qinquing Xu (Manchester University), “A Disconnected Reality: The Flourishing Chinese Music Industry and Struggling Songwriters”
	Will Page (Pivotal Economics), “A Case For Completion”
	Alexander Cuntz (WIPO), “Platform Discovery and Cumulative Creativity in the Music Industry”
	James Rhys Edwards (SINUS Markt- und Sozialforschung GmbH), “Local Repertoire, Sense of Place, and the Welfare Gap in Collective Licensing: Evidence From a Field Experiment in European In-Store Music Environments”
4:30pm	Wrap up of congress