Berry Picks in IT Law mentions a few eye catching publications every week. A little something something to keep you company during a tea (or coffee if you’re new here) break. Here, you can find all the recommended readings –in no particular order except dates published-, divided (very, and I mean very) loosely into relevant categories.
Think you missed some? Looking for something to read in a specific topic? You’re most welcome.
đ€ Artificial Intelligence
Comment of the European Copyright Society on the request for preliminary ruling in Case C-250/25 (Like Company) by PĂ©ter Mezei, Martin Kretschmer, Thomas Margoni, Alexander Peukert & JoĂŁo Pedro Quintais (2026)
You Trust Your Chatbot With Everything. Should You? Part 1: How The Controller Uses Your Chat Data by Theodore Christakis (2026)
Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth? by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt & Chris Russell (2024)
ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models, and Law by Harry Surden (2024)
Licensing high-risk artificial intelligence: Toward ex ante justification for a disruptive technology by Gianclaudio Malgieri & Frank Pasquale (2024)
AI Act and Large Language Models (LLMs): When Critical Issues and Privacy Impact Require Human and Ethical Oversight by Nicola Fabiano (2024)
Power and dignity: the ends of online behavioral advertising in the European Union by Aleksandre Zardiashvili (2024)
The European AI liability directives â Critique of a half-hearted approach and lessons for the future by Philipp Hacker (2023)
Misleading AI: Regulatory Strategies for Transparency in Information Intermediary Tools for Consumer Decision-Making by Jeannie Marie Paterson (2023)
Developing Artificial Intelligence-Based Content Creation: Are EU Copyright and Antitrust Law Fit for Purpose? by Juha Vesala (2023)
Taking AI Risks Seriously: A Proposal for the AI Act by Claudio Novelli, Federico Casolari, Antonino Rotolo, Mariarosaria Taddeo & Luciano Floridi (2023)
Democratizing AI from a Sociotechnical Perspective by Merel Noorman & Tsjalling Swierstra (2023)
GPT Takes the Bar Exam by Michael James Bommarito & Daniel Martin Katz (2023)
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal Judges by James E. Baker, Laurie N. Hobart & Matthew Mittelsteadt (US Federal Judicial Center) (2023)
The Implications of ChatGPT for Legal Services and Society -epilogue by Andrew Perlman (2023)
Explainable artificial intelligence for assault sentence prediction in New Zealand by Harry Rodger, Andrew Lensen & Marcin Betkier (2022)
đŸ Blockchain & Crypto-Assets
Strict Liability of Crypto-Asset Service Providers: Turkish Lawâs Sui Generis Response to MICA by Furkan GĂŒven TaĆtan (2025)
Elements of Effective Policies for Crypto Assets by the International Monetary Fund (2023)
đ© Competition & Antitrust
The End of Average: Deploying Agent-Based Modeling to Antitrust by Thibault Schrepel & John Schuler (2024)
Private Enforcement of the DMA Rules before the National Courts by Assimakis Komninos (2024)
App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act by Christopher T. Marsden (2023)
A Systematic Content Analysis of Innovation in European Competition Law by Thibault Schrepel (2023)
đ Content Moderation
Decision Quality and Errors in Content Moderation by Sebastian Felix Schwemer (2024)
Generative AI and deepfakes: a human rights approach to tackling harmful content by Felipe Romero Moreno (2024)
Moral judgment of objectionable online content: Reporting decisions and punishment preferences on social media by Sarah Vahed, Catalina Goanta, Pietro Ortolani & Alan G. Sanfey (2024)
The Meta Oversight Board’s Human Rights Future by Laurence R. Helfer & Molly K. Land (2023)
Pandemics and Platforms: Private Governance of (Dis)Information in Crisis Situations by Matthias C. Kettemann & Marie-Therese Sekwenz (2022)
Juridical Discourse for Platforms by Thomas E. Kadri (2022)
Using Experimental Evidence to Improve Delegated Enforcement by Lenka Fiala & Martin Husovec (2018)
đ Cybersecurity
The Emergence of EU Cybersecurity Law: A Tale of Lemons, Angst, Turf, Surf and Grey Boxes by Lee A. Bygrave (2024)
Reporting cybersecurity to stakeholders: A review of CSRD and the EU cyber legal framework by Clara Boggini (2024)
The outcome efficacy of the entity risk management requirements of the NIS 2 Directive by Donald David Stewart Ferguson (2023)
Adapting cybersecurity practice to reduce wildlife cybercrime by Timothy C. Haas (2023)
Selling Surveillance by Asaf Lubin (2023)
đ Data Protection & Privacy
Forget Me Not? Machine Unlearning’s Implication for Privacy Law by Jevan Hutson, Cedric Whitney and Jay T. Conrad (2026)
If it ainât broke, donât fix it? Ten improvements for the upcoming tenth anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation by Dariusz Kloza (ed.), Laura Drechsler (ed.), Elora Fernandes (ed.), Arian Birth, Julien Rossi, Pierre Dewitte, JarosĆaw Greser, Lisette Mustert, Gianclaudio Malgieri and Heidi Beate Bentzen (2026)
Substantive fairness in the GDPR: Fairness Elements for Article 5.1a GDPR by Andreas HĂ€uselmann & Bart Custers (2024)
Decolonial Data Law and Governance by Siddharth Peter de Souza, Hellen Mukiri Smith & Linnet Taylor (2024)
Artificial Intelligence and Privacy by Daniel J. Solove (2024)
The five generations of facial recognition usage and the Australian privacy law by Jorge Conde & Dan Jerker B Svantesson (2024)
Follow the (personal) data: Positioning data protection law as the cornerstone of EUâs âFit for the Digital Ageâ legislative package by Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna (2024)
The unfair side of Privacy Enhancing Technologies: addressing the trade-offs between PETs and fairness by Alessandra Calvi, Gianclaudio Malgieri & Dimitrsi Kotzinos (2024)
China Data Flows and Power in the Era of Chinese Big Tech by W. Gregory Voss & Emmanuel Pernot-Leplay (2024)
Government Access to Personal Data and Transnational Interoperability: An Accountability Perspective by Christopher Docksey and Kenneth Propp (2023)
Code as personal data: implications for data protection law and regulation of algorithms by Nazdezhda Purtova & Ronald Leenes (2023)
Thinking of data as an economic good: what it can (not) teach us about data governance by Nadezhda Purtova & Gijs van Maanen (2023)
A Critical Analysis of Consent in HumanâRobot Interaction by Mona Naomi Lintvedt (2023)
Regulating data intermediaries: The impact of the Data Governance Act on the EUâs data economy by Gabriele Carovano & MichĂšle Finck
Reflections on the Data Governance Act by Jukka Ruohonen & Sini Mickelsson (2023)
Legitimate Interest is the New Consent â Large-Scale Measurement and Legal Compliance of IAB Europe TCF Paywalls by Victor Morel, Cristiana Santos, Viktor Fredholm & Adam Thunberg (2023)
What is ‘Data’? Definition in International Legal Instruments on Data Protection, Cross-Bordeer Access to Data & Electronic Evidence by Karine Bannelier & AnaĂŻs Trotry (2023)
Privacy Peg, Trade Hole: Why We (Still) Shouldnât Put Data Privacy in Trade Law by Kristina Irion, Margot E. Kaminski & Svetlana Yakovleva (2023)
Investigating Deceptive Design in GDPRâs Legitimate Interest by Lin Kyi, Sushil Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, Franziska Roesner, Cristiana Santos, Frederike Zufall, and Asia J. Biega (2023)
Arbitrability of Data Protection Disputes: Personal Data, Personalized Justice? by MiloĆĄ NovoviÄ (2023)
Data Free Flow with Trust: Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows by the World Economic Forum (2023)
Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law by Daniel J. Solove (2023)
Authoritarian Privacy by Mark Jia (2023)
The Definitions in Article 3 of the EU Law Enforcement Directive: Commentary by Luca Tosoni & Lee A. Bygrave (2022)
The DMA and the GDPR: Making Sense of Data Accumulation, Cross-Use and Data Sharing Provisions by Muhammed Demircan (2022)
Mind over matter: Examining the implications of machine brain interfaces on privacy and data protection under the GDPR by Sabire Sanem Yılmaz & Habibe Deniz Seval (2022)
The right to object to automated individual decisions: resolving the ambiguity of Article 22(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation by Luca Tosoni (2021)
đ E-Commerce & Digital Consumer
The Digital Services Act (DSA)-An Overview by Folkert Wilman (2023)
Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals by Carl Shapiro (2023)
Computable Economy by Jason Potts (2023)
Detecting Dark Patterns Using Generative AI: Some Preliminary Results by Stuart Mills & Richard Whittle (2023)
What does the Digital Markets Act harmonize? â exploring interactions between the DMA and national competition laws by Jasper van den Boom (2022)
đ©đŒâđš Intellectual Property
Preserving Balance in the EU Digital Single Market: How Like Company Could Reframe Copyright and Innovation in the Generative AI Era by Enrico Bonadio, Giancarlo Frosio, Christophe Geiger, Andrés Guadamuz, Stavroula Karapapa & Irini A. Stamatoudi (2026)
A Scanner Darkly: Copyright Infringement in Artificial Intelligence Inputs and Outputs by Andrés Guadamuz (2024)
Copyright Content Moderation in the European Union: State of the Art, Ways Forward and Policy Recommendations by JoĂŁo Pedro Quintais, Christian Katzenbach, Sebastian Felix Schwemer, Daria Dergacheva, Thomas Riis, PĂ©ter Mezei, IstvĂĄn Harkai & JoĂŁo Carlos MagalhĂŁes (2024)
Copyright Law and the Lifecycle of Machine Learning Models by Martin Kretschmer, Thomas Margoni & Pinar Oruç (2024)
The localization of IP infringements in the online environment: from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and the Metaverse by Eleonora Rosati (2023)
Intellectual Property Law in Gaming and Artificial Intelligence by Enrico Bonadio & Alina Trapova (2023)
Human Creative Contribution to AI-Based Output â One Just Can(ât) Get Enough by Kateryna Militsyna (2023)
EU Copyright Directive: A âNightmareâ for Generative AI Researchers and Developers? by Theodoros Karathanasis (2023)
Copyright and Metaverse by Peter Mezei & Gunjan Chawla Arora (2023)
Privatizing Copyright by Xiyin Tang (2022)
Registered Community designs in the video game industry: a neglected yet potent tool by Emmanuelle Sarlangue (2021)
đ©âđ» Legal Tech
Caveat Lector: Large Language Models in Legal Practice by Eliza Mik (2024)
Design(s) for Law by Rossana Ducato, Alain Strowel & Enguerrand Marique (eds) (2024)
đ» Other tech
From Mutual Trust to the Gordian Knot of Notifications The EU E-Evidence Legislative Project by Theodore Christakis in The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Matters, Cambridge University Press (Vanessa Franssen, Stanislaw Tosza, eds) (2023)
Faux ami? Interrogating the normative coherence of âdigital constitutionalismâ by RĂłisĂn Ă Costello (2023)
Smart city governance from an innovation management perspective: Theoretical framing, review of current practices, and future research agenda by Luca Mora, Paolo Gerli, Lorenzo Ardito & Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli (2023)
đ€čââïž Regulation
Legal Regulation, Technological Management and the Future of Human Agency by William Lucy (2025)
EU Digital Legislation as a âWimmelpictureâ? What Childrenâs Books Can Teach Us About Laws by Heiko Richter (2024)
The Predilection for Contract in Governing Digital Networks: Micro-Managementâs Face Off with Accountability by Lee A. Bygrave (2023)
The ordoliberal internet? Continuity and change in the EUâs approach to the governance of cyberspace by Benjamin Farrand (2023)
Rising Above Liability: The Digital Services Act as a Blueprint for the Second Generation of Global Internet Rules by Martin Husovec (2023)
When the Digital Services Act Goes Global by Anupam Chander (2023)
An iterative regulatory process for robot governance by Hadassah Drukarch, Carlos Calleja & Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (2023)
đ Reports
European Union â ChatGPT, Are You Lawfully Processing My Personal Data? GDPR Compliance and Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data by OpenAI by Janos Meszaros, Davy Preuveneers, Elisabetta Biasin, Enzo Marquet, Irmak Erdogan, Isabela Maria Rosal, Koen Vranckaert, Lydia Belkadi & Natalia Menende (2024)
Second report on the State of the Digital Decade – European Union (2024)
Computational Antitrust Within Agencies: 3rd Annual Report by Thibault Schrepel & Teodora Groza (eds.) (2024)
Reconstitutionalising Privacy: EU-US data transfers and their impact on the rule of law, rights and trust by Franziska Boehm, Sergio Carrera & Valsamis Mitsilegas (2024)
Global Competition Law and Policy Approaches to Digital Markets – UNCTAD (2024)
Science in the age of AI: How artificial intelligence is changing the nature and method of scientific research by The Royal Society (2024)
ICPEN Dark Patterns in Subscription Services Sweep Public Report by International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (2024)
From privacy to partnership: The role of privacy enhancing technologies in data governance and collaborative analysis by The Royal Society (2023)
Study on the impact of recent developments in digital advertising on privacy, publishers and advertisers – final report of the European Commission written by Catherine Armitage, Nick Botton, Louis Dejeu-Castang, Laureline Lemoine (AWO Belgium) (2023)
Voice as the Window to the Soul: Analysis of the Level of Protection Granted by the GDPR to Emotions Inferred from Oneâs Voice by Tereza DuchoĆovĂĄ (2023)
Security Implications of ChatGPT by the Cloud Security Alliance (2023)
Copyright Content Moderation in the EU: Conclusions and Recommendations by JoĂŁo Pedro Quintais, Christian Katzenbach, Sebastian Felix Schwemer, Daria Dergacheva, Thomas Riis, PĂ©ter Mezei & IstvĂĄn Harkai (2022)
đ Rights in Cyberspace
Automated Decision-making and Artificial Intelligence at European Borders and Their Risks for Human Rights by Yiran Yang, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Pascal Beckers & Evellen Brouwer (2024)
Taking Fundamental Rights Seriously in the Digital Services Actâs Platform Liability Regime by Giancarlo Frosio & Christophe Geiger (2023)
Exploring the Synergies between Non-Discrimination and Data Protection: What Role for EU Data Protection Law to Address Intersectional Discrimination? by Alessandra Calvi (2023)
Right to be Forgotten in the Era of Large Language Models: Implications, Challenges, and Solutions by Dawen Zhang, Pamela Finckenberg-Broman, Thong Hoang, Shidong Pan, Zhenchang Xing, Mark Staples & Xiwei Xu (2023)