Herchel Smith Lecture 2025

Title: To be confirmed.

Martin Senftleben is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. He also works as an Of Counsel at Bird & Bird, The Hague. His activities focus on the reconciliation of private intellectual property rights with competing public interests of a social, cultural or economic nature. Current research topics include generative AI systems and author remuneration; open science and digital autonomy of researchers; platform and digital ecosystem regulation; copyright data improvement and content recommender systems; behavioural advertising and consumer empowerment; the development of sustainable intellectual property policy.

Professor Senftleben is a member of the Benelux Council for Intellectual Property. He provided advice to WIPO in copyright, trademark and unfair competition projects. For the European Commission, he prepared studies on data access and reuse in research contexts. He is a member of the Trademark Law Institute (TLI), the European Copyright Society (ECS) and the Executive Committee of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI). As a visiting professor, he was invited to the National University of Singapore, the Engelberg Center at NYU Law School, the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, Tel Aviv University, the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Xiamen University and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome. His numerous publications include Copyright, Limitations and the Three-Step Test (2004), European Trade Mark Law (with Annette Kur, 2017), The Copyright/Trademark Interface (2020) and Generative AI and Author Remuneration (2023). As a guest lecturer, he teaches at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), the Jagiellonian University Krakow and the University of Catania.

The lecture will be chaired by Professor Johanna Gibson, Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, CCLS, School of Law