Assistant Lecturer

Email: anthony.odwyer@tudublin.ie

My name is Dr. Anthony O’Dwyer. I am a Law Lecturer at TU Dublin. I currently lecture in EU Law, Contract Law, & Law & Technology. In addition, I look forward to launching Ireland’s first Music Law module for lawyers, which will launch in September 2024 as part of
our LLB programme. Before joining TU Dublin in 2023, I lectured in law at University College Dublin, South-eastern Technology University, and Queens University Belfast where my research and teaching focused on Copyright, AI, and Law & Technology.

I also worked with the IT Law Clinic in University College Cork (UCC), where a combination of postgraduate law students, researchers, teaching staff and solicitors provided free legal advice to start-ups in the tech space. I was the programme director of the IT Law Clinic at QUB.

My doctoral research, which was conducted under the supervision of Professor Fidelma White of UCC, was in the area of copyright, specialising on the Artists’ Resale Right. My current research focus centres around music copyright and AI. A sample of my research is listed below.  Finally, I welcome submission from potential Ph.D candidates in the area of Intellectual Property Rights, Music Law, AI and Law & Tech.

Publications
1) Doctoral Thesis: - ‘The Artists’ Resale Right Directive 2001/84/EC: a socially orientated reconceptualisation – fomenting social inclusion and remunerative parity’ https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5739 (Full e-thesis available at this link).
2) ‘Music Copyright Law’ – (Forthcoming Edward Elgar – Intellectual Law & Practice Series – ed. Trevor Cook of Wilmerhale).
3) Music Copyright Law for Musicians (Forthcoming).
4) ‘Art in an Age of Non-Fungible Tokens: Authenticity, Value and Counterfeit’ (Forthcoming Turing Institute & City Law School London) Co. Author Prof Giancarlo Frosio (QUB). Pre-publication link available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4607066
5) ‘Copyright, Art and the Metaverse’ (Forthcoming Turing Institute & City Law School London).
6) ‘AI in Music’ – (Forthcoming Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly).
7) ‘The Artists’ Resale Right Directive 2001/84: Reflecting upon a distasteful encounter of art and commerce’ The Journal of World Intellectual Property (2021)
8) The Artists’ Resale Right Directive 2001/84/EC: A Means of Targeted Intervention for Visual Artists’ European Intellectual Property Review (2018).
9) ‘The Nature of the Artists’ Resale Right – from antiquity to modernity’ (2017) Intellectual Property Quarterly.
10) ‘The Artists’ Resale Right: The Greatest Good?’ (2016) Edinburgh Student Law Review.
11) ‘The Droit de suite, an analysis across two jurisdictions: Cross fertilisation towards inclusivity’. (2013) COLR 12th Edition - Gold Medal Winner.
12) ‘We need to change the way courts deal with copyright cases’ The Irish Times (December 16th 2013).
13) ‘Droit de Suite: The Artists’ Resale Right’, 2012 ed. of the Boolean Journal, University College Cork.

Conferences, Submissions and Papers
1) Doolin Hedge School Jan 27th 2024 – AI & Music Panel - EXPLORING THE LEGAL AND CREATIVE AFTERSHOCK OF AI ON THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY – Panel Discussion - The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the realm of artistic creation has brought about a revolutionary shift in the landscape of various creative industries. AI systems are increasingly being employed to compose, write, produce, and perform art, blurring the lines between human and machine creativity. Dr. Anthony O’Dwyer, Anna Kelly, Irina Blako (AKA
Datejuice) and Mark Graham lead a discussion exploring the multifaceted impact of AI on the arts, delving into the creative, legal and sociological implications of AI: https://hedge-school.ie/#workshops
2) ‘A 21st Century Trojan Horse: The Bangemann & Orban effect on EU Democracy’ SLSA Dublin City University, November 10/11 2023.
3) ‘A(I)uthorship in Music – the next Horizon? – The Society for Musicology in Ireland, 21st Annual Plenary Conference, Technological University Dublin, June 8/9/10, 2023.
4) Output Music Conference Belfast, June 1st 2023, Mac Theatre & Oh Yeah Music Centre Belfast.
5) ‘Social Citizenship and the Artists’ Resale Right’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), April 4/5/6, 2023 Ulster University, Magee Campus, Derry-Londonderry.
6) ‘Walter Benjamin - Social Transformation and the Metaversian Observer’ – Irish Association of Law Teachers, Queen's University Belfast, November 11/12 2022. Law's Capacity for Shaping the World: Inclusion, Exclusion and Omission.
7) ‘Art in an age of non-fungible tokens: authenticity, value, and counterfeit’ – Workshop on Copyright Aspects of NFTs, Blockchain and Smart Contracts – the City Law School, London, September 13th.
8) ‘The Artists’ Resale Right - Unchaining Visual Artists Through Code’ – Music, Art, Dance and the Law Seminar – The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. June 16/17/ 2022.
9) ‘AI, Post Modernity, Anxiety and the Next Horizon’ Trinity College Dublin, International Symposium, Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses 2022.
10) ‘Music Royalties and Spotify’ WIT School of Music 2021.
11) ‘The Artists’ Resale Right Directive 2001/84/EC: A Means of Targeted Intervention for Visual Artists’ SLSA 2019
12) ‘The Nature of the Artists’ Resale Right – from antiquity to modernity’. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association.
13) ‘Reconceptualising the Artists' Resale Right Directive through the Lens of Citizenship’. Paper presented to the 5th Göttingen International Research Forum on Law and ICT/IP 2016.
14) Submission on Copyright & Orphan Works to the Department of Justice, 2015.
15) ‘The Artists’ Resale Right: from antiquity to modernity’ Conference paper
presented to the Irish Society of Comparative Law, June 5th & 6th 2015.
16) Child Law Clinic (University College Cork.) submission to the Department of Justice ‘Response to the General Scheme of the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014.
17) ‘The Droit de Suite – A Human Right?’ Paper presented to the Queen Mary University of London, Postgraduate Legal Research Conference, 2013.
18) ‘The Droit de Suite and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights’. Paper presented to the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, University College Cork, 2012.
19) ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Droit de Suite in the EU and the US’. Paper presented at the 6th Annual International Graduate Legal Research Conference Kings College London, 2011/2012.