4iP Council Research Awards 2024
4iP Council is pleased to announce the winning papers and authors in the 2024 4iP Council Research Award.
1st Place:
Revisiting Industrial Applicability and Utility Criteria: AI’s Role in the Inventive Process and Postmodern Human-Centric IP Development
by Alia Kahwaji
Alia is a doctoral candidate at the University of East Anglia (UEA), where she earned her LLM in Information Technology, Intellectual Property, and Media Law. Her doctoral research examines the impact of AI tools on the patent system and patentability criteria through a socioeconomic lens. Alia has presented her research at several international conferences and was awarded the Diane Rowland award from The British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association. She is an active member of the Centre for Competition Policy and co-leads the TechnoLawgy Collective Research Group at UEA. Alia is a visiting lecturer at City St George’s, University of London and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).
2nd Place:
Does AI voice cloning break Copyright twice? The risk of dual infringement and licensing solutions in music creation.
Mina Jasinski
I recently graduated with distinction from Jagiellonian University with a Master’s in Intellectual Property Law and New Technologies, offered in collaboration with WIPO. I am particularly fascinated by the changing landscape of IP in relation to the digital age, especially its impact on the creative industries and artistic expression. This interest also led me to a legal internship at IFRRO, where I had explored these issues in depth. Before that, I earned a Bachelor’s degree in French and English law. My main interests lie in copyright law, the intersection of technology and ethics, and the enforcement of IP rights, as well as European trademark and design law.
3rd Place:
Volunteering for the Platforms. How the Fair Remuneration Principle of Authors and Performers May Be Violated by Social Media Terms of Service
by Ludovico Bossi
Ludovico Bossi is a PhD Candidate in Law and Business at Luiss University, Italy, under the supervision of Professor Christophe Geiger and Professor Maurizio Borghi. He is a Member of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory (ILEO) and an Italian-qualified lawyer with national and international expertise. He graduated in Law with highest honors and press dignity from the University of Turin, Italy, and from the Côte d'Azur University, France. He specializes in national, European, international, and comparative Intellectual Property (IP) Law, with a special interest on the fair remuneration of authors and performers within Copyright Law, and more broadly, the intersections between innovation and sustainability.
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