Conference 2025

9:00 a.m.

Admission

Reception with tea and coffee

Greetings

10:00 a.m.

Greeting

Matthias Hornschuh, Composer, IU Spokesperson
and Katharina Uppenbrink, managing director Authors' Rights Initiative

Greeting

Prof. Manos Tsangaris, President of the Academy of Arts

Greeting

Artist, NN, (tbc)

Voices of Science

10:15 a.m.

Keynote – AI Update (WT)

Prof. Dr. Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, University of Cologne

Short presentation – Race to the Bottom: TDM Update from Computer Science

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stober, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Shot presentation - AI, copyright, and the future of internet search

Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker, European New School of Digital Studies

Short presentation – Populism, dark tech, the need for regulation: How we can survive the "media war"

Prof. Dr. Martin Andree, University of Cologne

11:20 a.m.

Break

AI and Politics in Fall 2025

11:40 a.m.

Keynote

Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Dr. Stefanie Hubig, BMJV

Welcome address

Dr. Konrad Schmidt-Werthern, Secretary General of the Federal Ministry for Culture and the Media

Statement

Nathanael Liminski, Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs, and Media (NRW)

Statement

Renate Nikolay, European Commission (tbc)

Statement

Axel Voss, MEP

12:50 p.m.

Questions

Statement on the “Hirschhausen case”

Dr. Götz Schneider-Rothaar, SKW Schwarz Lawyers

Impulse - “My face belongs to me. So does my voice. A plea for the regulation of AI deep fakes” (working title)

Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen

1:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

Thinking Outside the Box

1:45 p.m.

Impulse – Political dimensions of dealing with generative AI in culture, media, and knowledge work

Prof. Dr. Petra Gehring, TU Darmstadt

Keynote – AI & Politics: the good, the useless and the ugly (WT)

Prof. Dr. Daniel Mügge, University of Amsterdam

Statement - GenAI: Update Denmark (WT)

Karen Rønde, CEO, Danish Press Publications' CMO (DPCMO)

2:25 p.m.

Update from Alicante (WT)

Harrie Temmink, EUIPO

And what does that mean specifically? (WT)

2:45 p.m.

Introduction to the PANEL - AI policy and copyright: how national actors in Europe can shape the legal framework now

Sabine Richly, moderator, Media Law Digital

PANEL 1

Dr. Amit Datta, Aleph Alpha
Jean-Philippe Mochon
Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker, European New School of Digital Studies
Karen Rønde Danish Press Publications' CMO (DPCMO)**
copyright holder, N.N.

Contribution - Regulatory approaches: Input and output

Dr. Robert Staats, VG Wort

Contribution - Update on lawsuits - national and international (WT)

Dr. Tobias Holzmüller, GEMA

3:50

Break

4:20 p.m.

PANEL 2 – AI policy from and for Germany – what do the ministries say? (WT)

Marco-Alexander Breit, Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation
Dr. Stephanie Schulz-Hombach, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Dr. Christian Meyer-Seitz, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection

Discussion

Prospects

5:00 p.m.

Assessments from the German Parliament

Ansgar Heveling, MdB (CDU)
Martin Rabanus, MdB (SPD)

Impulse - Update: AI and media antitrust law

Prof. Dr. Thomas Höppner, Geradin Partners

conclusion

Matthias Hornschuh, Composer, IU Spokesperson
and Katharina Uppenbrink, managing director Authors` Rights Initiative

5:30 p.m.

End

Followed by: Short champagne reception to celebrate the 25th anniversary

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The program is continuously updated.