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Stina Teil­mann-Lock

Associate Professor

Subjects
Design Creativity Law Artificial intelligence Technology Green transition

Primary research areas

In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty and Sustain­ability
With European col­leagues I ex­plore cir­cu­lar­ity and up­cyc­ling as design strategies, con­sumer per­cep­tions of up­cycled branded goods and pro­pose leg­al re­forms to bet­ter align European design pro­tec­tion with in­cent­ive struc­tures for sustain­ability and cir­cu­lar eco­nomy goals.
Cre­ativ­ity, In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty and Emer­ging Tech­no­lo­gies
With col­leagues from Europe, Ocean­ia and North Amer­ica I ex­plore the in­ter­play between tech­no­logy, cre­ativ­ity and copy­right fo­cus­ing on AI-gen­er­ated works, leg­al chal­lenges and the evol­u­tion of in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty in the di­git­al era.
His­tor­ies of Design, Tech­no­logy & Copy­right
I re­search the his­tor­ic­al de­vel­op­ment of design and copy­right law and their in­ter­ac­tions with shift­ing tech­no­lo­gies, fo­cus­ing on how leg­al con­cepts like ori­gin­al­ity, copy­ing and di­git­al re­use shape cre­at­ive in­dus­tries.

Ad­van­cing re­spons­ible IP laws for cre­ativ­ity and sustain­ability

My research is shaped by three core aims:  

(1) To develop intellectual property strategies and frameworks that support responsible design innovation in Danish companies and startups, while addressing the challenges of value destruction caused by unauthorized copying of designs. 

(2) To advance the green transition in the legal protection of design by rethinking incentive structures within intellectual property regimes.

3) To enhance human creativity at the intersection of intellectual property, new technologies and business. 

Publications

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September 2025

The Role of Copyright in a Time of Artificial Creativity

The Value of Interdisciplinarity in Copyright Law

Isabella Alexander

Andrea Wallace

Sti­na Teil­mann-Lock, Associate Professor

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September 2025

Beyond the AI-Copyright Wars

Towards European Dataset Law?

Sti­na Teil­mann-Lock, Associate Professor

An­drej Savin, Professor mso

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2025

AI, Advanced Technologies, and the Need to Revise Copyright Law

Eric K. Clemons

An­drej Savin, Professor mso

Maximillian Schreieck

Sti­na Teil­mann-Lock, Associate Professor

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Ad­min­is­trat­ive tasks

  • Director of Governance, Culture & Learning Unit

Recent research projects

CreAIte – Trans­form­at­ive Tech­no­lo­gies, Cre­ativ­ity, and Value Cre­ation in the Cul­tur­al Sec­tor

CreAIte stud­ies how AI and di­git­al tech­no­logy re­shape cre­ativ­ity and value cre­ation in the cul­tur­al sec­tor, fo­cus­ing on art, mu­seums and act­ing, with policy guid­ance for sus­tain­able ad­apt­a­tion.

ArTech­Law - In­ter­sec­tions of Art, Cre­at­ive Prac­tices, Tech­no­logy and In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Law

ArTech­Law ex­am­ines the re­la­tion­ships between emer­ging tech­no­logy, cre­ativ­ity and in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty law, high­light­ing evolving AI chal­lenges and trans­form­a­tions of leg­al frame­works around cre­at­ive works.
ArTechLaw

Outside activities

Fælles be­skikket cen­sorkorps for de vide­regående kun­st­ner­iske ud­dan­nelser un­der Ud­dan­nelses- og For­sknings­min­is­ter­iet , 2012 - Now

Cen­sor
Censor

In­ter­na­tion­al So­ci­ety for the His­tory and The­ory of In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty , 2019 - Now

Mem­ber of the Board of Gov­ernors
https://ishtip.org/