Agenda

Thursday & Friday, April 6-7, 2023
at International House, UC Berkeley

Thursday, April 6
1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (PT)

Tutorial “The EU Digital Services Act – Overview and Central Features”
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. General DSA Architecture and Approach

Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam

2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.  Rules for Hosting Providers, Online Platforms and Very Large Online Platforms

Martin Husovec, London School of Economics

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. 

Interplay with OCSSP Rules in the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

João Quintais, University of Amsterdam

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 

Q&A

 

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

Break

 

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. 

Beyond Copyright Infringement: DSA Review, Moderation and Liability Rules Compared to Previous National Review and Takedown Approaches for Illegal Content

Matthias Leistner, LMU Munich Faculty of Law 

4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. 

Q&A

 

4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. 

Free Speech Challenges and Potential Risk Reduction in the DSA

Eleonora Rosati, Stockholm University

5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. 

Q&A

 

 

Friday, April 7
8:45 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. (PT)

8:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

 

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.  Welcome Remarks

Pamela Samuelson, Berkeley Law School

Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.  Opening Keynote by Irene Roche-Laguna of the European Commission’s
DGCONNECT group on origins and aspirations for the DSA
 

Panel 1: How the DSA Shifts Responsibilities of Online Service Platforms
Moderator: Erik Stallman, Berkeley Law School

9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.  Designing Rules for Content Moderation: The Shift from Liability to Accountability in
Europe

Martin Husovec, London School of Economics

 

 

“Human review” as the New Panacea of European Platform Law and Beyond? The Emerging European Standards for the Interplay of Algorithmic Systems and Human Review in the DSM-Directive, the DSA and the proposed AI Act

Matthias Leistner, LMU Munich Faculty of Law

 

Interventions

Eric Goldman, Santa Clara Law School

Xiyin Tang, UCLA Law School

10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.  Break

 

Panel 2: Will the DSA Achieve a “Brussels Effect”?
Moderator: Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 

Copyright Law and/or/vs. a ‘Brussels Effect’ for the Digital Services Ac

Jennifer Urban, Berkeley Law School

 

The DSA Trusted Flagger Regime and Its Interplay with Article 17 DSMD in the Aftermath of CJEU, Poland – A Promising Model?

 

Eleonora Rosati, Stockholm University

  The Global Internet and Its Workable, Bespoke, Patchwork Regulation 

Justin Hughes, Loyola University Los Angeles

 

Will the DSA Achieve a “Brussels Effect”?

Anupam Chander, Georgetown Law School

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 

Lunch & Keynote Topic:
How are emerging technologies affecting copyright policy?

Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights

Panel 3: Intended and Unintended Consequences of the DSA 
Moderator: Pamela Samuelson, Berkeley Law School

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.  An Economic Model of Intermediary Liability 

James Grimmelmann, Cornell Law School; Cornell Tech

  From Notice-and-Takedown to Content Licensing and Filtering: How the Absence of
UGC Monetization Rules Impacts Fundamental Rights

João Quintais, University of Amsterdam

Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam

  Interventions  Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.  Break

 

Panel 4: Industry Perspectives

3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Industry Perspectives

Canek Acosta, Microsoft

Rob Arcamona, Meta

Annemarie Bridy, Google

Remy Chavannes, Brinkhof

Holly Hogan, Automattic

Clemens Molle, Bird & Bird

Sabrina Perelman, Pinterest

Chris Riley, Data Transfer Initiative

Moderator: Daphne Keller, Stanford Cyber Policy Center

5:15 p.m. – 6:30 pm.   Reception