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Upcoming publication: Ćemalović, Uroš, ‘Letting sleeping wasps lie: general-purpose AI models and copyright protection under the European Union AI Act’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, 2026
The Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP), leading peer-reviewed monthly from Oxford University Press, delivers practical and analytical IP law coverage – patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, plus competition and WTO angles – for IP lawyers, attorneys, academics, and judges via concise, globally focused articles and case insights.
The article addresses two principal research objectives. First, to examine how and to what extent the provisions of the EU AI Act (EUAIA) dedicated to general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) models (GPAIm) govern the intersection of copyright and AI, through the scrutiny of major legal challenges raised by AI manipulations of copyrighted material. Second, to distil whether and how the EUAIA’s provisions on prohibited AI practices can be applicable to AI-based copyright infringement.
Latest publication: Ćemalović, Uroš; Ćurčić, Slađana; and Igruninović, Milan, ‘Environmental Contradictions in the EU Accession Process: Lessons from a Lithium Mining Project in Serbia’ Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, Taylor & Francis, 2025
The Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) is the leading refereed journal in the field of energy and natural resources law, publishing four print issues per year, as well as frequent on-line content updates.
The paper considers the “Jadar” lithium mining project as a specific challenge to environmental security, and highlights its incompatibility with the European Union’s (EU) environmental standards that Serbia, as a candidate country, is required to meet, as well as with the EU criteria for the designation of strategic projects.
Recent publication: Ćemalović, Uroš, ‘Prohibited artificial intelligence practices according to Article 5 of the European Union’s regulation on AI – between the ‘too late’ and the ‘not enough’, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Oxford University Press (Vol. 32, 2024)
The International Journal of Law & Information Technology (IJLIT), a leading journal from Oxford University Press, covers the intersection of law and technology. It focuses on computer law, ICT applications in legal practice (e-discovery, AI, cloud), cyberspace law (cybercrime, IP, privacy, e-commerce), and broader societal impacts. It serves lawyers, tech specialists, and scholars with cutting-edge analysis of global trends.
In June 2024, the European Union adopted the AI Act (AIA), its first comprehensive legal instrument in this field. Notwithstanding the undoubted importance of the very adoption of this act, it is much less certain whether it will significantly contribute to more trustworthy and human-centric AI tools and systems. Focusing on a critical examination of the provisions of the European Union’s AI Act dedicated to the prohibited AI practices, the paper argues that the answer is no, mainly because of the AIA’s late adoption, as well as due to the fact that it did not go far enough in regulating AI.
Recent publication – Book: Ćemalović, Uroš and Duić, Dunja (2024), ‘EU Integration and Environmental Law’
The main objective of this edited book is to contribute to reflection on the complex relations between EU integration taken lato sensu and environmental legislation. It is intended for a wider scientific community, practitioners in various fields, the business community, political decision-makers, but also for every reader sharing with our authors a passion for environmental protection, as well as for legal and political studies of the EU. The editors believe that, in a changing world where threats against global peace and security may often seem more important and more imminent than the threat of irreversible environmental degradation, the conservation of nature and habitats represents a unique field where every citizen in the world, with small gestures in everyday life, can make their contribution. This is the main reason why we invited nine authors from five countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia) to present different perspectives, but with the common objective to shed light on environmental protection in the context of EU integration. Despite the fact that focus is placed on the countries of South-Eastern and Central Europe, all the chapters raise various issues applicable to all European states.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381490843_EU_INTEGRATION_AND_ENVIRONMENTAL_LAW
As the author of the chapter on Serbia of the 2019 I·CONnect-Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law, on November 20, 2020, Uroš Ćemalović will participate in the online workshop “The state of constitutionalism in the Central and Eastern European region”, organised by the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law in Budapest. The agenda is acessible here https://docs.google.com/
On October 29, 2020, Uroš Ćemalović, research associate of the Institute of European Studies gave a lecture to the students of the Faculty of Law Osijek and the Academy of Arts and Culture Osijek, entitled “Migrations, Law and Creativity”.
Dr. Uroš Ćemalović will participate in the work of the international scientific conference on September 10 and 11, 2020, via a video link:
ECLIC International Scientific Conference
EU 2020 – lessons from the past and solutions for the future
The conference program is available at: https://www.pravos.unios.hr/eclic-2020/conference-programme
Uroš Ćemalović, Ph.D., was awarded with the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Medal for Creativity, for his monograph Intellectual Property Law and Digital Transformation – Some Current Issues, published by the IES. The award will be conferred on November 15, 2019 in Belgrade, at the occasion of the celebration of the 99th anniversary of the Serbian Office for Intellectual Property.
The monograph Intellectual Property Law and Digital Transformation – Some Current Issues (in Serbian) written by Uroš Ćemalović has just been published by the Institute of European Studies, Belgrade.
On its more than 200 pages, this study aims to present – in a clear and interesting way and following an interdisciplinary-based approach – the conditions for the legal protection of different kinds of human creativity, putting them in the context of the rapid technological development and digital transformation. Throughout the chapters dedicated to industrial design law, copyright law, trademark law and patent law, a special attention was dedicated both to the case law and to numerous recently adopted legal acts and policy documents on international, European and national level, as well as to the numerous challenges imposed by the digital environment. In spite of the fact that this book examines predominantly legal matters, it is not dedicated only to lawyers, but to the widest circle of readers who would like to know more about, among other issues,
1) how to ensure the protection of copyright in the digital environment and what brings the recently adopted EU Directive 2016/0280 on copyright in the digital single market,
2) which are the new legal headaches that have been brought by 3D printing,
3) how the development of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and the Internet of things could interfere with existing patent law rules or
4) how a trademark can enter in a conflict with the freedom of entrepreneurship, speech and information.
Throughout all five chapters of the book, a special attention has been paid to the latest legal acts adopted on the level of the European Union, as well as to the state of legislation and practice in Serbia. The author points to the numerous essential challenges that digitalization brings to the existing normative framework, so the book can be particularly useful for engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and people working in creative industries.
The Group on bioethics of the Institute of European Studiea is organizing a lecture by Dr Uroš Ćemalović on the International Protection of New Plant Species – UPOV Convention and Other Legal Mechanisms.
The lecture will be held on Monday, 25 December 2017 at 12:00, at the Institute library, Trg Nikole Pašića 11, IV floor, room 105.