PIJIP Director Sean Flynn recently presented his paper Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright at a conference on "Rethinking Copyright Flexibilities" in Nicosia, Cyprus.   The paper  classifies countries based on the degree to which they have a research exception in their law that is sufficiently open to be able to permit reproduction and communications of copyrighted work needed for academic (i.e. non-commercial) text and data mining (TDM) research. 
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On Thursday, October 13, 2022, WCL’s Business Law Program and the Digital Asset Law Project hosted a hybrid event on new virtual currency regulations and the way forward in navigating this newly charged yet unclear financial and regulatory space. With an introduction by Professor V. Gerard Comizio, Associate Director of the Business Law Program, the event began with a fireside chat and interview with Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero, a current CTFC Commissioner nominated by President Biden. Commissioner Goldsmith Romero discussed the effects of the retail investor footprint on the CFTC’s approach to regulating digital assets, President Biden’s Executive Order 14067 on expanding access to “safe and affordable financial services,” and future federal legislations to promote responsible financial innovation and a more active role for the CFTC to regulate digital assets.
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On April 1, 2022, Brown Rudnick LLP, sponsored a panel at Paris Arbitration Week on “Blockchain Arbitration and the Resolution of Cryptocurrency Disputes.” Featured among the key speakers was Professor Gerard Comizio, Associate Director of the American University Business Law Program, who spoke on the different Legal, Regulatory & Law Enforcement Concerns regarding virtual currency and the various government legal/regulatory responses.
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The Constitutional Court of South Africa has issued an order in a case brought by Blind South Africa against the Parliament. The order finds provisions of the Copyright Act to be unconstitutional due to "infringement of the rights of persons with persons with visual and print disabilities, as set out in sections 9(3), 10, 16(1)(b), 29(1) and 30

of the Constitution."
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As noted in her book, Professor Allen remarked that the 2008 financial crisis was a defining economic crisis that presented similar challenges to the current threats posed by fintech. She observed that while governments around the globe reacted immediately and overwhelmingly to the 2008 crisis, they may not be able to do the same in the case of fintech-related threats.
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On March 17, 2022, Dr. Björn Arp, a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law Center on International Commercial Arbitration, interviewed Professor Gerard Comizio, Associate Director of the Business Law Program (BLP), about his new book, Virtual Currency Law: the Emerging Legal and Regulatory Framework. The conversation was hosted Program for International & Comparative Law Studies (ICLS) and the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Law Society (BCLS).
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