Axe 5 : Art et droit

Les candidatures pour l’année 2026-2027 sont ouvertes. Une séance d’information est organisée le jeudi 19 février 2026 de 12h30 à 13h30 en hybride au FabLab et sur Teams. Toutes les informations et documents sont disponibles sur l’équipe TEAMS  ici. L’échéance pour le dépôt des candidatures est fixée au 25  février à midi.   The ULB is a member of the Pan-European Seal Traineeship Programme (Pan-European Seal). The Pan-European Seal is a comprehensive traineeship programme that bridges academia and the labour market in different fields (IP, law, finance, business, engineering, etc.) to promote and disseminate Intellectual Property among the Academic Community. It is promoted in partnership with two of the world’s largest IP offices, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, Spain and the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich, Germany and their strategic University partners. This programme gives high-achieving, young university graduates access to a year-long (12 months) paid traineeship at either the EUIPO or the EPO, helping them get a foot in the door of the competitive world in a variety of fields through valuable, on-the-job, multicultural and professional work experience. Within the context of the ongoing fight against high levels of youth unemployment in Europe and the commitment thereof to social responsibility, the Pan-European Seal will offer traineeship posts every year to graduates of their university partners, administered by both of the abovementioned offices. The number of posts offered is determined on an annual basis. Application and selection of ULB prospective students is organized at JurisLab – FabLab ULB. Information are provided annually through institutional communication.

Buiding upon prior findings from the IPSAM project, this research aims at studying the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies on the central role given to human perception under Intellectual Property (IP) laws anthropocentric framework.   The central research question is whether AI will drive harmonisation of IP similarities, replacing the uncertainty under current case law by machine-made rules that are not faithful to the law, hence untrue. The research focuses on the similarity assessment that must be performed according to EU trademark law, design law, and copyright law (patent law will not be covered). In the frame of this research project, an interdisciplinary team consisting of an IP expert (the Principal Investigator – PI) and a postdoc researches in AI engineering, AI law and Cognitive psychology, will verify empirically whether the development and use of those tools can embed and abide by the judge-made rules for assessing IP similarities. Empirical findings will be collected through four Working Packages (WP) dedicated to the engineering of AI-powered IP similarity assessment tools (WP1), the transparency and explainability of such tools (WP2), the automations biases in their use (WP3), and the challenged they pose to the anthropocentric approach of similarity assessment in IP laws (WP4). Results of this research are expected to fill gaps in the state of the art in an entirely innovative way and to explore new avenues in IP theory and algorithmic regulation.   More info soon.

Cette formation, organisée en collaboration entre l’UCLouvain – Saint-Louis Bruxelles et l’ULB est offre une exploration approfondie des questions juridiques liées à l’art et au marché de l’art dans le cadre du droit, principalement belge et européen. Le marché de l’art est en constante évolution : avec ses transactions complexes, ses enjeux de propriété intellectuelle, ses transferts d’œuvres, etc. Une expertise rigoureuse permet de garantir la sécurité du statut, de la propriété, de la détention, des cessions et transactions des oeuvres d’art. Au cours de cette formation, des sujets très variés seront abordés : du statut d’artiste aux obligations pour la lutte contre le blanchiment, de la numérisation des collections à la restitution d’œuvres spoliées, etc. L’équipe enseignante est composée d’académiques, notamment des membres du JurisLab, mais aussi d’expert·es et de praticien·nes de haut niveau, ce qui assure une qualité scientifique du programme tout en apportant une connaissance de terrain très pointue. Découvrez le programme de la première édition dans la brochure 2026.