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Prof. Dr. Thomas Margoni is Research Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, where he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) and director of the IP & IT Law programme. He holds the position of Professor BOF and heads the education commission of the OC MNM Intellectuele Rechten Campus Brussel. His research concentrates on the relationship between law and technology, with a particular emphasis on comparative and European copyright law. Margoni examines transformations in the creation, access, and distribution of information driven by technologies and cultural processes, including artificial intelligence, platforms, and datafication. He publishes and teaches on European and international intellectual property, copyright, designs, and Internet law. Margoni regularly presents at national and international conferences on IP, IT, and information law. He collaborates with EU and international institutions such as the European Commission, EU AI Office, European Parliament, Court of Justice of the European Union, OECD, WIPO, EUIPO, Japanese Patent Office, and Korean Copyright Commission. He has served as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and as a visiting professor at leading research centres.

Prior to joining KU Leuven in 2020, Margoni was Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law and co-director of CREATe at the University of Glasgow School of Law, where he convened the LLM programme in Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy. Earlier roles include Lecturer in Law at the University of Stirling, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam, and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Western University, Canada. Notable publications include 'A Deeper Look into the EU Text and Data Mining Exceptions: Harmonisation, Data Ownership, and the Future of Technology' (GRUR International, 2022), 'Copyright Law and the Lifecycle of Machine Learning Models' (IIC, 2024), 'Legal Reform to Enhance Global Text and Data Mining Research' (Science, 2022), and 'From Music Tracks to Google Maps: Who Owns Computer-Generated Works?' (Computer Law & Security Review, 2010). Margoni serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law (JIPITEC), Copyright Evidence Wiki, and CREATe working paper series, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights.