Bodó, Balázs, PhD (1975), economist, piracy researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.

He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society in 2006/7 and a Fellow at the Center between 2006 and 2012. In 2012/13 was a Fulbright Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since 2013 he is based in Amsterdam, working as a socio-legal researcher and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.
Before moving to the Netherlands, he was deeply involved in the development of the Hungarian internet culture. He was the project lead for Creative Commons Hungary. He is a member of the National Copyright Expert Group. As an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he helped to established and led the university’s Masters Program in Cultural Industries. He has advised several public and private institutions on digital archives, content distribution, online communities, business development. His academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries, digital archives, informal media economies. His most recent book is on the role of P2P piracy in the Hungarian cultural ecosystem.

Conferences, public talks, professional associations

 

 

Conference organizer, program committee member

 

Legalization of file-sharing: an idea whose time has come - and gone?

Panel organizer (with Quintais, Joao)

Information Influx Conference, University of Amsterdam

2-4 July 2014, Amsterdam

 

(Distributive) Justice Vs. Privacy – The Uneasy Tradeoff In Copyright Debates

panel chair and organizer

Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference

January 23, 2014, Brussels

 

3rd Free Culture Research Conference

Program Committee Member, Panel Moderator

Freie Universität of Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

October 7-9, 2010, Berlin

 

Book Publishing and Book Trade in the Age of Digital Copies Conference

panel moderator and program committee member

Hungarian Ministry of Justice, the Hungarian Patent Office, Anti-Counterfeiting National Committee

April 23, 2010, Budapest

 

Research Workshop on Free Culture

Program Committee Member

Harvard University

October 23, 2009, Cambridge, MA

 

Alternative Culture(s) and Urban Space International Conference

Program Committee Member   

International Alternative Culture Center (Hungary), Urban Laboratory at European Humanities University (Lithuania), CEU Curriculum Resource Center, OSI HESP, CEU OSA Archives, McMaster University (Canada)

2-3 April 2009, Budapest

 

First International Research Workshop on Free Culture

Program Committee Member

Jul 29–Aug 1, 2008, Sapporo, Japan

 

National Audiovisual Media Strategy – series of workshops and conferences around key issues in media policy.

Program Chair

Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Corvinus University, and the National Radio and Television Authority.

September-December 2007, Budapest

 

RE:Activism: international conference on new media and activism,

Program committee member, and Chair of the Organizing Committee

Central European University, Budapest University of Technology and economics, Open Society Institute, the Annenberg School for Communication at UPenn.

October 2005, Budapest

 

The Freedom of Culture – the economics of creative expression conference

Program Chair

Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

March 2006, Budapest

 

„What kind of space do we build here?” workshops series on the interconnectedness of physical and virtual spaces

Program Chair

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, A38

March - October 2004

 

 

Invited participant, panelist, expert contributor

 

Shadow libraries

The Post Digital Scholar Conference

November 12-14 Leuphana University

 

Supply and demand in scholarly book publishing

The interaction between legal and pirated books sales workshop

October 14, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville

 

Alternative Compensation Schemes

Copyright 4 Innovation

8 September, 2014, The Hague

 

Shadow libraries (invited lecture)

Re:publica conference

May 6-8, Berlin                         

 

The Future of Digital Identity

Club of Amsterdam

April 25, 2013, Amsterdam

 

Keynote

EU XXL Forum Conference of European Media Film and Policy

June 12-14, 2013 Wien

 

Knowledge, Culture and Science as Commons panel

Economics and the Commons Conference

May 22-24 2013, Berlin

Balancing Of Fundamental Rights In Online  Copyright Enforcement panel

Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference: Reloading Data Protection

January 23-25, 2013, Brussels

 

Hush, hush, it is a (pirate) library

IIT Institute of Design

November 20, 2012, Chicago

 

Set the fox to watch the geese: voluntary, bottom-up IP regimes in piratical file-sharing communities

Noon-time colloquium Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn

October 5, 2012, Philadelphia

 

Copy Culture, Media Piracy, and Shadow Libraries

American University Washington College of Law

September 27, 2012, Washington, DC

 

IP enforcement and its alternatives

Media Hungary

May 9, 2012, Siófok

 

PSB in the digital age

Public, service, media conference

April 22, 2012, Budapest

 

Roundtable for libraries and publishers on the e-book market

International Book Festival

April 20, 2012, Budapest

 

Keynote

Conference on book digitization at the National Public Library

April 17, 2012, Budapest

 

Reflections in the Dead Library

Open Society Archives

April 12, 2012, Budapest

 

ACTA Workshop

National IP Office

March 21, 2012, Budapest

 

The Google book project and the Hungarian e-book market

Conference on Book marketing

April 15, 2010, Budapest

 

HASTAC virtual conference

panelist (panel moderator: Christian Sandvig)

April, 2010, online at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/hastac

 

ALTERNATIVE CULTURE NOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

organized by the International Alternative Culture Center (Hungary) and the University of Alberta (Canada), with support from CRC CEU and OSI-HESP

panel moderator

April 8-10, 2010, Budapest

 

Trans-border cultural communities and the borderless internet INTERMAGYAR symposium for journalist in the Hungarian diaspora organized by the Association of Hungarian Journalists

March 20, 2010, Budapest

 

Legal and moral entrepreneurs and the future of content digitalization

Digitalization, but.. conference

organized by The Library of the Hungarian Parliament. March 17, 2010 Budapest

 

The Pirates of the Pirates of the Caribbean: File-sharing Networks as Distributed Archives and Context Creating Networks

Circuits of Profit: Business Network Research Conference

organized by Central European University Center for Network Science (CNS), Maven Seven Network Research Ltd., Social Network Analysis section of the Hungarian Sociological Association

January 10, 2010, Budapest

 

The future of online content distribution

Roundtable organized by the Hungarian Patent Office and the National Anti-Counterfeiting Organization

November 17, 2009 Budapest

 

Creative Commons and open education

Open Education Forum

November 7-8, 2009, Budapest

 

Where to go with Creative Commons?

Web2.0 Conference

March, 2009, Budapest

 

Barcamp Bratislava

February 2009, Bratislava

 

Pirates and online networks

Hamisítási (T)rend 2008 – conference on counterfeiting and copyright infringement

Organized by the Hungarian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright ,

Siófok, November, 2008

 

Coppers and Robbers Conference

Panelist, Round table on Collecting societies and Creative Commons

October, 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

What is Creative Commons?

Open Source Farm – Conference on Open Source Software, Open Standards, and Open Culture

October 9. 2008, Budapest

 

Strategy workshop on IP Enforcement Issues

Hosted by the OSI Information Program,

panelist

June 2008, London

 

Toward Détente in Media Piracy – a research and advocacy collaboration network organized by the Social Science Research Council, Sarai and the Alternative Law Forum, the Instituto Overmundo at the Fundação Getulio Vargas, and the Association of Progressive Communications and the LINK Center.

panelist

June, 2008, London

 

Public Voice – an effort to represent public interest at the OECD Ministerial Conference,

member

June 17-18, 2008, Seoul, Korea.

 

Between Art and Trespass – Graffiti and the Urban Public Spaces

Workshop organized by the Mayor of Budapest

May 2008, Budapest

 

Digital Undergrounds

From Samizdat to Blogging: International conference on Globalization and New Forms of Political Expression

20-21 February, 2008, Budapest

 

Ad-blocking and ad-based business models

Internet Hungary Conference

Panelist

2007, Tihany

 

Hacking the culture industries

Hacktivity conference

Budapest, September, 2007

 

On Creative Commons

"The Budapest Dialogue - Intellectual Property, Creative Economies and their Consumers"

International Conference

http://www.mie.org.hu/konf07/

September, 2007, Budapest

 

Underground commons - keynote speech

3. ICommons Summit

Dubrovnik, June, 2007

 

File sharing networks and their role in cultural preservation in Hungary

Guest speaker at the Chicago-Kent College of Law

March 22, 2007

 

Robin Hood Digital

Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society, CIS/SLATA Lunch Talk series

October 23, 2006

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