<div dir="ltr"><div>FYI > might of interest for some people on the list</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><i style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:start">(with apologies for cross-posting)</i><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"calibri light",sans-serif;color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><i style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:start"><br></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="garamond, serif">Call for Papers (abstracts due November
30, 2016)</font></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Intermediary Liability as a
Human Rights Issue</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">An issue of <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Journal of Intellectual Property,
Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law (JIPITEC)<b> </b></span></i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">(</span></span><a href="https://www.jipitec.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">link</span></a><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(43,43,43)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="garamond, serif">Edited
by: Martin Husovec (Tilburg University)</font></span><b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="garamond, serif"> </font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Overview</span></b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="garamond, serif">Intermediaries are backbones of
Internet economy. Increasingly, they are also becoming unavoidable gatekeepers
to our fundamental rights as citizens. They shape our opinions, but also amplify
power of our words; they provide platforms for our creativity, but also limit
its forms. Given their crucial position of control, they are increasingly
called upon to assist the government in implementing various policies. These
range from fighting hate-speech and terrorism to providing effective remedies
against defamation and intellectual property violations. In addition to
imposing liability, the governments, recognizing power of intermediaries, are
turning to them into co-regulators of Internet environment asking them to
surveil, control and enforce.<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span><font face="garamond, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="garamond, serif">Intermediary liability is generally
understood as a set of rules that place responsibility on Internet companies
with respect to third-party content that is deemed unlawful. These rules act as
carrots and sticks. They incentivize intermediaries to handle complaints of
individuals and governments. The design of the rules influences how and when
the content is take-down, blocked, or filtered away. It influences what
automated solutions intermediaries pick from the market and with what
consequences. <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:yellow"><span></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span><font face="garamond, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="garamond, serif">It is therefore no surprise that the
governmental policies regarding intermediary liability are increasingly
scrutinized from the perspective of human rights. The Council of Europe
recently conducted a large scale study regarding such policies in its member
states and is working on a set of recommendations.<a name="m_7220081303750720768__ftnref1" title=""><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height:107%;color:rgb(43,43,43)">[1]</span></span></span></a>
The civil society globally launched a discussion about the principles regarding
the best governmental practices.<a name="m_7220081303750720768__ftnref2" title=""><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height:107%;color:rgb(43,43,43)">[2]</span></span></span></a> The
European Court of Human Rights is receiving a wave of new cases objecting to
national schemes of intermediary liability.<a name="m_7220081303750720768__ftnref3" title=""><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height:107%;color:rgb(43,43,43)">[3]</span></span></span></a> In
general, the intermediary liability policies are re-entering the spotlight
globally and increasingly becoming to be evaluated for their human rights
compliance.<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="garamond, serif">This paper symposium will provide an
opportunity to highlight new academic work and serve as a venue to build theory
about a rapidly changing subject. Owing to <i>JIPITEC’s</i>
open access policy of the journal, it is our goal to facilitate and promote the
relevant research to a variety of stakeholders working daily in the area—including
lawyers, judges, law enforcement, legislators and policymakers, activists and
civil and human rights organizations, technologists, and academics in a variety
of fields. We welcome contributions that present original research, offer
conceptual, critical, or theoretical analyses of these issues.<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span><font face="garamond, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">We particularly encourage
submissions addressing (not limited to) such subjects as:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(43,43,43)">Content
take-down and reinstatement in light of human rights</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Human
rights aspects of filtering and website-blocking<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Human
rights aspects of voluntary enforcement agreements among individuals <span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Government-pressured
‘codes of conduct’ and human rights<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Relationship
between EU law and ECHR law on intermediary liability<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Digital
jurisdiction and its role for due process<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Positive
obligations of the state and their impact on intermediary liability<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Right
to be delisted and its implications for global free speech<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Transparency
of intermediaries about content-removals<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Algorithmic
enforcement and fundamental rights<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span><font face="garamond, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Deadlines and anticipated
timeline:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Initial abstract submission deadline (~ 500 words): November 30,
2016 </span></b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Authors
notified of (tentative) acceptance: December 31, 2016<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Full
papers due (based on accepted abstracts): May 31, 2017<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Peer-review
(after submission of full papers)<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Publication
in 2017<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 15pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span><font face="garamond, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Specifics about submissions:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Initial abstracts should contain
approximately 500 words. Subsequent full paper submissions should contain fewer
than 10,000 words (including footnotes and citations), and should contain a
200-word abstract and biographical information about the authors on a cover
page. <i>Invited</i> full paper submissions
will undergo formal double-blind peer review, which is expected to take between
1 and 2 months (submissions that are not selected for peer-review will be
released back to the authors quickly). All submissions should be submitted in
editable Word (*.doc/x) or *.rtf formats, and should adhere to the formatting
and citation requirements of <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">JIPITEC</span></i> (available
at </span><a href="https://www.jipitec.eu/for-authors" target="_blank"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">https://www.jipitec.eu/for-<wbr>authors</span></a><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">).<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><span><font face="garamond, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="garamond, serif">All submissions of abstracts and/or
questions should be sent to the editor via email to: <i>m.husovec (at) uvt (dot) nl<span></span></i></font></span></p>
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<p class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteText"><font face="garamond, serif"><a name="m_7220081303750720768__ftn1" title=""><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height:107%">[1]</span></span></span></a> See
<<a href="http://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression/study-filtering-blocking-and-take-down-of-illegal-content-on-the-internet" target="_blank">http://www.coe.int/en/web/<wbr>freedom-expression/study-<wbr>filtering-blocking-and-take-<wbr>down-of-illegal-content-on-<wbr>the-internet</a>><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:yellow"><span></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteText"><font face="garamond, serif"><a name="m_7220081303750720768__ftn2" title=""><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height:107%">[2]</span></span></span></a> See
<<a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2015/10/31/manila_principles_1.0.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/files/<wbr>2015/10/31/manila_principles_<wbr>1.0.pdf</a>><span></span></font></p>
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<p class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteText"><font face="garamond, serif"><a name="m_7220081303750720768__ftn3" title=""><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height:107%">[3]</span></span></span></a>
Delfi AS v Estonia; Cengiz/Akdeniz/Yildirim v. Turkey; MTE v Hungary</font></p><p class="m_7220081303750720768gmail-MsoFootnoteText"><br></p></div></div></div><div><div class="m_7220081303750720768gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><div>Martin Husovec,<br><span><a href="http://www.husovec.eu/" target="_blank"><http://www.husovec.eu/></a><br><br></span></div><div>-
Assistant Professor at the Tilburg University (Tilburg Institute for
Law, Technology and Society & Tilburg Law and Economics Center)</div><div>- Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for
Internet & Society (CIS) <br><br></div>My research: <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=1912670" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/author=1912670</a></span></div></div></div>
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