Welcome to Joensuu on May 22-23, 2025 for the 15th Annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law (CICL). The conference programme will take place on May 22-23, 2025 and the social programme on May 24, 2025. The social programme will be held in Joensuu’s city center and will conclude by 13:00 on the same day.

Please remember to register for the event here by 30th April, 2025.

LIST OF PRESENTERS (to be updated)

  1. Prof. Péter Mezei, University of Szeged, Hungary; adjunct professor (dosentti), University of Turku (Finland); chief researcher, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
    Memorization and Generative AI – A persistent issue with copyright consequences?
  2. Prof. Emeritus John T. Cross, University of Louisville, USA 
    Transfer of trademarks as a means of punishment or compensation
  3. Dr. Krista Rantasaari, University of Eastern Finland
    Patent Pledges and SMEs: Advancing Green Technology Innovation
  4. Assoc. Prof., Do Thi Phuong, Hanoi Law University, Vietnam
    Completing Vietnam law in preventing and managing fake news on cyberspace. 
  5. Dr. Tran Thi Lien, Hanoi Law University, Vietnam
    Creating a legal framework to prevent digital currency-related crimes in Vietnam
  6. Dr. Mikko Antikainen, Jyväskylä University, Finland
    Copyright and freedom of artistic creativity in immersive video games: Life imitates art, but does art imitate copyright?
  7. Distinguished University Prof. Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons, The University of Toledo Is Anything Still New Since CONTU: Artificial Intelligence, and What we Failed to Learn at the Birth of The Internet
  8. Prof. Mary LaFrance, William S. Boyd School of Law, Uni. of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Reciprocity and Performance Rights in Sound Recordings
  9. Distinguished Prof. Sharon K. Sandeen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, USA
    Assoc. Prof. Ulla-Maija Mylly, Hanken, Finland Calibrating Policy levers to ensure access to data
  10. Dr. Benjamin Kraudinger, University for Continiung Education Krems, Austria
    Stretching terms – AI-models as reproductions of training data under EU copyright law?
  11. Prof. Enrico Bonadio, The City Law School, City St Geogre’s, Uni. of London, UK Standard Essential Patents and Global Digital Justice: Balancing Innovation, Access, and Geopolitical Equity in the 5G/6G Era
  12. Sahar Karimi, Doctoral Researcher, Turku University, Finland
    Data Protection in E-commerce: A Cross-Border Perspective, Balancing Trade Expansion and Data Protection
  13. Chisanga Mutale, Doctoral Researcher, Turku University, Finland
     Patent Law and AI: Inventing Phamarceutical Drugs using AI
  14. Michal Jezek, Ph.D Candidate, Faculty of Law, Department of International and European Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
    Parody as an enduring challenge for EU intellectual property law
  15. Jakub Drąg, Ph.D Candidate, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań; Doctoral School of Social Sciences; Faculty of Law and Administration; Department of European Law, Poland
    In too deep? Mapping the copyright and image rights mazes of deepfake
  16. Dr. Lucius Klobucnik, Aston University, United Kingdom
    New kids on the block of collective management – new opportunities and the need for closer collaboration
  17. Dr. Daniel Jongsma, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
    (How) do we understand the horizontal effect of the EU Charter? The case of copyright.
  18. Anna-Maria Tuominen-Reini, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
    Conceptual article: trademark and brand functions at odds
  19. Dr. Edit Tomasovszky, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
    Towards a Sustainable Art Market? – Diverse Impacts of NFTs
  20. Dr. Radim Charvát, Faculty of Law of Masaryk University, Czech Republic  Should performers obtain a sui generis protection against digital replicas of their voices? 
  21. Dr. Nguyen Hai Yen, Hanoi Law University, Vietnam Rethinking the First Sale Doctrine in the Era of NFTs: Ownership, Transferability, and Legal Challenges in Digital Markets.
  22. Dr. Jenna Päläs, University of Eastern Finland, Law School,
    D.Soc.Sc., Assoc. Prof. Mirva Salminen, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Technology and Safety, Interrogating the Concept of Security in the Consumer Protection Regulation on Digital Services in the Digital Single Market;
  23. Prof. Glynn Lunney, Texas A&M University, Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair, USA Incentives and Popular Music Composition
  24. Prof. Katja Weckström, Law School, University of Eastern Finland Governing the Internet Economy by Regulating Digital Market Actors
  25. Prof. Peter K. Yu,  Texas A&M University, USA Intellectual Property and AI (Inter)nationalism
  26. Vera Sevastianova, Hanken School of Economics, Finland Trademarks and Freedom of Expression: A Case for More Trademark Parody T-Shirts
  27. Joonas Huuhtanen, Ph.D Candidate, Law School, University of Eastern Finland, Contract Liability and Consumer Expectations in Digital Contracts
  28. Dr. Hang Nguyen, Law School, University of Eastern Finland Vietnam’s Regulatory Autonomy Through Intellectual Property Provisions In The Free Trade Agreement With The European Union: Experiences For Developing Countries
  29. Dr. Sujitha Subramanian, School of Law & Social Justice, University of Liverpool Reconceptualizing ‘Dignity’ within Artificial Intelligence Legal Frameworks





CICL launched in 2008 and is jointly organized by the University of Turku Faculty of Law (Finland), the University of Eastern Finland Law School, the University of Louisville School of Law (USA), Michigan State University College of Law (USA), Texas A&M University School of Law (USA), the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Szeged (Hungary), and IPR University Center (Finland).

Each year, CICL brings together top scholars exploring issues in intellectual property law, communications law, and issues related to the intersection of the two.

In the past decade, conferences in the CICL series have not only showcased the latest research in the intellectual property field, but they have also provided excellent forums for intellectual property teachers, researchers and students to exchange their experience. Featuring cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary perspectives and presentations from graduate students, the conference series has benefited professors and students alike.

The inaugural conference was held at the University of Turku in Finland in July 2008. Since then, the event has been held at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne in Australia, the University of Leeds in England and the University of Szeged in Hungary in addition to the co-sponsoring institutions. In July 2015, CLIP co-organized the seventh annual conference in Xiamen, China, with the Intellectual Property Research Institute at Xiamen University.