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Sari Depreeuw

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Overview

With in-depth knowledge of European and Belgian copyright, software, and data law, companies trust Sari Depreeuw with the drafting of forward-looking and complex contracts, strategic advice, and litigation. Clients in the tech, media, and entertainment sectors rely on Sari to protect their intellectual property and other immaterial assets.

Sari is an active member of the Belgian copyright community. She has conducted studies for the European Commission and the Belgian government on the subject of copyright. She is also president of the Belgian Copyright Association and a member of the editorial board of Computerrecht, a peer-reviewed, Dutch-Belgian IT journal.

Sari is a part-time professor at the UCLouvain/Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, where she teaches IP and media law.

Career & Education

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    • University of Namur, B.A., 1999
    • Catholic University of Leuven, LL.M., cum laude, 2002
    • Catholic University of Brussels / Catholic University of Leuven, LL.M., magna cum laude, intellectual property law, 2006
    • Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Ph.D., copyright, 2011
    • University of Namur, B.A., 1999
    • Catholic University of Leuven, LL.M., cum laude, 2002
    • Catholic University of Brussels / Catholic University of Leuven, LL.M., magna cum laude, intellectual property law, 2006
    • Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Ph.D., copyright, 2011

    • Belgium
    • European Court
    • Belgium
    • European Court

    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • German
Sari Depreeuw is always my go-to for any IP/IT legal advice.

— Legal 500, 2020

Sari's Insights

Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.31.25

U.S. Copyright Office Releases Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Report, Clarifying Copyrightability of Generative AI Outputs

The U.S. Copyright Office has released Part 2 of its Report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). This part of the Report, issued on January 29, 2025, focuses on the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. Overall, the Copyright Office concludes that existing law is sufficient to resolve questions of AI usage in copyrighted works, and sufficient human contributions to AI-generated outputs that would constitute authorship will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. The Office declined to support a separate copyright registration analysis for AI works, but provided new examples of how using AI as a tool could support sufficient authorship for copyrightability....

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Representative Matters

  • Provides regular assistance to a Belgian telecom operator and broadcaster in copyright matters.
  • Represented a night club in litigation against a collective management organisation on licensing conditions and abuse of dominant position.
  • Represented the Belgian government in a question concerning copyright and competition law before the Court of Justice of the European Union. 
  • Advised an internationally well-reputed Belgian gallery on the resale rights in an international context and revised the contracts accordingly.
  • Assisted a sports league in the negotiation of contracts for the production and broadcast of the competition, using an AI-driven system of autonomous cameras.
  • Provide regular assistance to a national sports association on the protection of intellectual property.
  • Provide regular assistance to several international groups of consultants for outsourcing contracts (software, data) and software services (copyright, software and database rights, trade secrets)
  • Give strategic advice as to a national federation of liberal professions on the design and launch of a data vault on digital property and intermediary liability.
  • Provide regular assistance to software solutions provider active in the sector of autonomous vehicle (strategic collaboration contracts, protection of IP and trade secrets).
  • Provide regular assistance to a provider of software solutions and trackers (IoT devices) in the logistics sector (strategic co-development and distribution contracts, protection of IP and trade secrets).
  • Provide copyright and contractual advice to a startup offering an NFT-platform in graphic arts.

Sari's Insights

Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.31.25

U.S. Copyright Office Releases Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Report, Clarifying Copyrightability of Generative AI Outputs

The U.S. Copyright Office has released Part 2 of its Report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). This part of the Report, issued on January 29, 2025, focuses on the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. Overall, the Copyright Office concludes that existing law is sufficient to resolve questions of AI usage in copyrighted works, and sufficient human contributions to AI-generated outputs that would constitute authorship will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. The Office declined to support a separate copyright registration analysis for AI works, but provided new examples of how using AI as a tool could support sufficient authorship for copyrightability....

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Insights

Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.31.25

U.S. Copyright Office Releases Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Report, Clarifying Copyrightability of Generative AI Outputs

Publication | 01.28.25

EU Artificial Intelligence Act

Speaking Engagement | 12.03.24

“The impact of AI in the film industry,” Kortfilmfestival Leuven

Speaking Engagement | 11.27.24

“AI-trends in Media en Marketing,” Vlaio, Thomas More and Vaia, Mechelen
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Practices

Industries

Sari's Insights

Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.31.25

U.S. Copyright Office Releases Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Report, Clarifying Copyrightability of Generative AI Outputs

The U.S. Copyright Office has released Part 2 of its Report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). This part of the Report, issued on January 29, 2025, focuses on the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. Overall, the Copyright Office concludes that existing law is sufficient to resolve questions of AI usage in copyrighted works, and sufficient human contributions to AI-generated outputs that would constitute authorship will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. The Office declined to support a separate copyright registration analysis for AI works, but provided new examples of how using AI as a tool could support sufficient authorship for copyrightability....

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