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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 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. His research focuses on the relationship between law and technology, particularly comparative and European copyright law, examining transformations in the creation, access, and distribution of information driven by technologies such as AI, platforms, and datafication. Prior to joining KU Leuven in 2020, he 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 in Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy; 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 in Canada. Thomas Margoni holds a PhD, LLM, and JD, with early education in Comparative Law and Economics from 2004 to 2008.

Margoni publishes extensively on European and international intellectual property, copyright, designs, and Internet law, presenting at major national and international conferences. Key publications include 'A Deeper Look into the EU Text and Data Mining Exceptions: Harmonisation, Data Ownership, and the Future of Technology' (2022, with Martin Kretschmer), 'Copyright Law and the Lifecycle of Machine Learning Models' (2024, with Martin Kretschmer and Pinar Oruç), and 'Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and EU Copyright Law: Who Owns AI?' (2018). He collaborates with institutions such as the European Commission, European Parliament, CJEU, OECD, WIPO, and EUIPO. Margoni serves on editorial boards of the Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law (JIPITEC), Copyright Evidence Wiki, and CREATe working paper series. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow alumnus, Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, holds fellowships at CREATe and IViR, and is a member of organizations including ALAI, ATRIP, European Copyright Society, ELI, and EPIP. As principal investigator, he leads projects like the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC), Skills4EOSC, DAFNE+, and others addressing open science, data governance, and IP in collaborative ecosystems.