Julien Cabay

Julien CABAY is Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Associate Professor at Université de Liège (ULiège). At ULB, he holds the Chair in Intellectual Creation and Innovation Law and is director of JurisLab, an interdisciplinary research unit of the Center for private law located in the FabLab ULB. At ULiège, he teaches in the LL.M. in EU Competition and IP Law and is a member of the interdisciplinary research intstitute EU Legal Studies.

Next to these main affiliations, Julien is also Invited Professor (Gastdocent) at KULeuven (Master of IP& ICT Law), Invited Professor at Centre d’études internationales de la propriété intellectuelle (CEIPI) of University of Strasbourg (University Diploma in AI & IP), Professor at Brussels School of Artificial Intelligence (Executive Master in Law & AI), Affiliated Researcher at Digital Law Center (DLC) of University of Geneva and member of the Belgian Council for Intellectual Property.

Julien is a renowned expert in the field of intellectual property, in particular copyright law and interdisciplinary approach to intellectual property. Currently, his core research interests are: Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence; Intellectual Property and Fundamental Rights; Intellectual Property and Open Science; Copyright and Contemporary Artistic Practices.

Julien holds a Ph.D. in Juridical Sciences (ULB, 2016), a LL.M. in IP Law (KULeuven, 2011) and a Master in Private Law (ULB, 2009). He has been PostDoc Resarcher (2016-2020) and Research Fellow (2010-2014) at Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S-FNRS), Global Policy Fellow at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (2018), Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia University in the City of New York (2012-2013) and Erasmus Student at Università degli Studi Roma Tre (2008-2009).

Selected publications

• “La condition d’originalité en droit d’auteur : in abstracto, in concreto”, in B. Vanbrabant (sous la dir. de), Propriété intellectuelle et secrets d’affaire, Commission Université-Palais (CUP), vol. 230, Limal, Anthemis, 2024, pp. 8-58
• “Going Deep : EU Copyright, Generative AI and the Competition Rationale Underlying Originality”, Revue des Juristes de Sciences Po, Vol. 25, 2024, pp. 47-53
• “A Quantitative Evaluation of Trademark Search Engines’ Performances through Large-Scale Statistical Analysis” (with T. Vandamme & O. Debeir), in X., Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023), June 19–23, 2023, Braga, Portugal, ACM, New York (NY, USA), 2023, pp. 343-350
• “Regulating Technology through Copyright Law: The Way Forward for Building a Digital Single Market?” (with E. Rosati), in P. Van Cleynenbreugel, J. Wildemeersch (éds.), Questions choisies de droit européen des affaires / Selected Issues in European Business Law – 60 ans d’études juridiques européennes à Liège / 60 years of European legal studies at Liège, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2023, pp. 81-114
• “Proving Copyright Protection and Infringement: Lessons from the CJEU”, in E. Rosati (ed.), Handbook on EU Copyright Law, London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 215-243
• “Lecture prospective de l’article 17 de la directive sur le droit d’auteur dans le marché unique numérique : Vers une obligation de filtrage limitée par la CJUE, garante du « juste équilibre »”, in J. de Werra, Y. Benhamou (éds.), Propriété intellectuelle à l’ère du big data et de la blockchain – Intellectual Property in the era of Big Data and Blockchain, Zürich, Schulthess Verlag, 2020, pp. 169-273
• “L’originalité, entre merger doctrine et multiplicité des formes (ou : Quand la Cour de justice fait l’expérience de l’équilibre sur un vélo pliable)”, Revue de droit intellectuel – Ingénieur conseil, 2020, pp. 617-650
• “Remix prohibited: how rigid EU copyright laws inhibit creativity” (with M. Lambrecht), Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2015, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 359-377
• “La nouveauté : un indice d’originalité à l’épreuve d’Internet” (with A. Strowel), in J. Cabay, V. Delforge, V. Fossoul, M. Lambrecht (éds.), 20 ans de nouveau droit d’auteur – 20 jaar nieuw auteursrecht, Limal, Anthemis, 2015, pp. 17-68