Zachary Cooper

Zachary Cooper is a legal scholar and lecturer at the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute, as part of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, whose research focuses on techno-regulatory incoherence when applying copyright to emerging forms of Generative AI-enabled media. He also coordinates and teaches the VU Amsterdam’s “Law and Ethics of AI & Robots” Course.

His most recent article – “The AI Authorship Distraction” – will be published in the Journal of the Copyright Society and has been assigned on AI & the Law syllabi in Europe and in the USA. His interdisciplinary research programme has led to dozens of speaking invitations worldwide in a wide array of settings, including the International Conference of Machine Learning, the IP Scholars Conference, the UNESCO AI & Human Rights Conference and at an expert summit on AI disinformation in the Hague. He was recently selected as one of 50 scholars to form the Global Copyright Expert Network in Geneva.

He served as Co-Editor of the European Journal of Law and Technology and as Editor-In-Chief of the Amsterdam Law Forum. He recently completed a 6-month fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute where he organised an international workshop bringing together leading scholars such as Pamela Samuelson and creative GenAI pioneers such as CJ Carr to bridge gaps in contemporary scholarship with near-future-state technology.