Ai and Media Law

The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive overview of media law in relation to the opportunities and challenges posed by artificial intelligence systems. The course is thus intended to give a general framework of media law and the constitutional and supranational principles on which it is based, and then to focus on issues related to the impact of the internet and AI on the production, circulation, and consumption of media.
Specifically, particular attention will be given to some of the most significant problems that have emerged so far and that often still lack complete regulation at the legislative level: the liability regime for offenses committed by AI systems; generative AI systems and copyright protection; defamation, hate speech, and deepfakes.

At the end of the course, the students will have an in-depth knowledge of media law both in general and, more importantly, in relation to artificial intelligence systems. The students will have developed skills in analyzing regulatory and jurisprudential data and will have gained an understanding of how media law adheres to certain established principles while also being subject to significant pressures from technological development. The students will have developed the ability to frame the main issues related to AI systems from a legal perspective and will have acquired the skill to identify possible solutions to emerging problems in the field of media law.