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    9 research topics · 27 questions

    Whether purely AI-generated content can meet the authorship threshold for copyright4 questions

    1. Unresolved legal questions on the enforceability of AI model terms of use: copyright preemption, authorship in AI outputs and model weights, guardrail-circumvention liability, and regulatory alternatives (Henderson & Lemley, 2024)

    2. When does prompting make an author? The unresolved originality threshold for user prompts in generative-AI works under CDPA s 9(3), and the pastiche/idea–expression boundary for style-mimicking prompts

    3. The human-authorship threshold: how much human creative control makes an AI-assisted work copyrightable?

    4. Operational criteria for sufficient human authorship in generative-AI outputs: the copyrightability threshold and attribution among layered human contributors

    Jurisdictional conflicts and the principle of comity in cross-border data enforcement4 questions

    1. The international legitimacy and effectiveness of the GDPR's Article 3(2) territorial extension: determinate targeting criteria, proportionality safeguards for extra-EU controllers, extraterritorial enforcement, and concurrent jurisdiction

    2. Operationalizing Global Governance of Internet Privacy: Design, Feasibility, and Sufficiency of the Three Post-Schrems II Pathways

    3. Prescriptive jurisdiction without commands: specifying the reasonableness limit when a foreign state regulates, approves, or structures the market rather than compels

    4. Designing a lawful and scalable international framework for law-enforcement access to electronic evidence across borders (the open institutional-design and conflict-of-law questions left by the CLOUD Act, the Budapest Convention Second Additional Protocol, and the EU e-Evidence package)

    Difficulties in Defining Relevant Markets in Zero-Priced Digital Markets3 questions

    1. Monetary valuation of personal data and attention for SSNIP/critical-loss market definition in zero-price markets

    2. Operational measurement protocols for market definition in zero-price markets: measuring quality, competitive-significance thresholds, and heterogeneous non-monetary costs

    3. Operationalizing market definition for platform businesses: adapting the single-market approach and the hypothetical monopolist test to platforms with zero-price sides

    Standards for Identifying Competitive Harm in Most-Favored-Nation Clauses on Platforms3 questions

    1. Narrow price parity clauses and their prohibition: when do theories of harm bind, and do parity bans improve welfare?

    2. Calibrating antitrust safe harbors for most-favored-nation clauses: numerical thresholds, non-agency distribution models, and rival-referencing clauses

    3. Advertising competition between platforms and their sellers under price parity clauses: the investment and welfare channel left open by Wang and Wright (2023)

    Causal Attribution of Corporate Emissions to Specific Damages in Climate Litigation4 questions

    1. Closing the evidentiary gap in climate litigation: the Stuart-Smith et al. (2021) research agenda linking attribution science to legal causation

    2. Corporate climate liability through the UK duty of care: whether tort law can hold companies accountable for their contribution to climate change

    3. Legal admissibility and litigation integration of storyline and probabilistic extreme-event attribution evidence for climate-change liability

    4. Process-complete and transferable attribution of anthropogenic climate change influence on glacial lake outburst flood hazard: the open core of the Lake Palcacocha attribution study

    The boundaries of fair use for generative AI training data1 questions

    1. Open problems for the Shapley Royalty Share framework: strategic robustness, semivalue foundations, scalable estimation, and economic design of generative-AI copyright royalties

    Causal Relationship and Burden of Proof Allocation in Algorithmic Discrimination Cases3 questions

    1. Implementing the mutatis-mutandis (MM) comparator for discrimination testing: reliable generation of protected-attribute-independent comparators and robust characterization against the ceteris-paribus comparator

    2. Proving algorithmic discrimination under EU non-discrimination law: the prima facie case, allocation of the burden of proof, and access to evidence under algorithmic opacity

    3. Legally reliable testing and adjudication of algorithmic disparate impact

    Conflicts Between Smart Contract Code Errors and True Intent2 questions

    1. Controlled mutability and emergency neutralization of deployed smart contracts without undermining decentralization

    2. Reliable formalization of realistic contract language into Symboleo: richer event semantics, state-based conditionals, and freeform (LLM-assisted) refinements beyond the controlled natural language

    Allocation of Responsibility Among Manufacturers, Deployers, and Users in Autonomous Driving Accidents3 questions

    1. Attributing civil and criminal liability for damage caused by fully self-driving cars: autonomous algorithmic decisions, causation, and the burden of proof under Lithuanian and EU law

    2. Unresolved questions for proving liability and compensating victims of highly and fully automated vehicle accidents in Australia

    3. Distributing the Burden of Proof in Autonomous-Driving Tort Litigation: Statutory Design of Takeover-Time Standards, Disclosure Duties, and Burden-Shifting Safeguards for China

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