dr Michalina Kowala

Kowala M.,”L’instrumentalisation du droit d’auteur et des droits voisins au service des défis de la transformation numérique. L’exemple de la réponse législative apportée aux deepfakes”, Revue Propriété Intellectuelle, no.101, 2026.
Kowala M., “Access to data on disinformation within the Code of practice on disinformation” in.: “The Many Faces of Data Access: Legal and Policy Implications for Research”, J.Ausloos, S.P.de Souza (eds.), Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2026, ISBN: 9789083672113, https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/themanyfaces/.
Michalina Kowala, Rebalancing imbalances in the Digital Economy. The CJEU judgment in Meta C-797/23: a new boost for press publishers?, Kluwer Copyright Blog, https://legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-blog/rebalancing-imbalances-in-the-digital-economy-the-cjeu-judgment-in-meta-c-79723-a-new-boost-for-press-publishers/, 2026.
Michalina Kowala, Miłosz Malaga, Competition law and the effectiveness of intellectual property rights: a revolution in the making?, European Law Journal, 2025, vol.31.
Michalina Kowala, Publishers’ rights and copyright law Safeguarding access to information and media pluralism, Routledge, 2025.
Michalina Kowala, Miłosz Malaga, Press publishers’ right and competition law. Case comment on the French Competition Authority’s decisions against Google, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, vol.17, no.30, 2024, https://press.wz.uw.edu.pl/yars/vol17/iss30/10/.
Michalina Kowala, Protection of press publishers in the age of Generative AI – in search of legal remedies to adapt to technological pace, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), no.10, 2024, (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40319-024-01515-y).
Michalina Kowala, Inequalities in access to information and the practices of online platforms – a legal perspective., w: (In)equality. Faces of modern Europe, Monografia Wydawnictwa Centrum Studiów Niemieckich i Europejskich im. Willy’ego Brandta, 2023.
Michalina Kowala, The Polish transposition of the press publishers’ right: waiting for the miracle?, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, vol. 17, no. 5, 2022, pp. 429–436, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpac037.
Michalina Kowala, Italian variations on the press publishers’ related right’s theme, Blog of Centre for IT&IP Law, KU Leuven, 2022, https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/italian-variations-on-the-press-publishers-related-rights-theme/.

Prizes and awards:
- ALAI European Authors’ Right Award, 2026.
- First prize of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the 23rd competition for the best academic works on intellectual property protection organised by the Polish Patent Office, 2025.
- START Scholarship with distinction awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science to young researchers under the age of 30.
- Scholarship of the City of Poznań for young researchers from Poznań scientific community, 2023.
- Second place in the European final of the French-language competition ‘My dissertation in 180 seconds’, 2022.
- First place in the national final of the French-language competition ‘My dissertation in 180 seconds’, 2022.
- Scholarship of the French government for 2023 – 2024 to carry out research stays in France and prepare a dissertation within the codirection in cooperation with the Institut de Recherche en Droit Privé at Nantes Universite, France, 2022.
- Third place in the ‘Law with Technology in the Background’ competition for the best master’s thesis on the relationship between law and new technologies organised by the Women in Law Foundation, 2020.
- Third place in the K. Kolańczyk competition for the best master’s thesis defended at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2020.
- First place in the International Moot Court Competition organised by the Embassy of France in Hungary and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, 2018.
Research stays:
- European University Institute, 2026
- L’Université Paris Saclay, 2026
- Nantes Université, 2023,2024,2025
- Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, 2023
- Center for IT&IP Law, KU Leuven, 2022
- Université de Strasbourg, Centre d’études internationales de la propriété intellectuelle CEIPI, 2022
- European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, 2022
- Center for IT&IP Law, KU Leuven, 2021
- College of Europe, Bruges, 2020-2021
Additional academic activities:
- Participation in AI Action Summit Paris, 2025
- Participation in European Forum Alpbach, Austria, 2022
- Participation in Summer Course on International Copyright Law and Policy organised by the Institute for Information Law (IViR) University of Amsterdam, 2022
- Participation in the largest French-language simulation of the European Parliament Specque, France, 2021
- Participation in the scientific project “In search of the European Doctrine of Freedom of Expression. Between Law and Responsibility” at the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, 2017
- Function as Vice President of the Roman Law Academic Circle Bona Fides, 2017-2018
- Membership in the European Law Students Association ELSA Poznań, 2016
Grants:
- French Government Scholarship “France Excellence” for research stays at French research institutions (2026).
- Grant under the MINIATURA 9 programme, NCN, entitled ‘Guaranteeing access to information or protecting freedom to conduct a business? The legislator’s difficult choices based on the example of attempts to resolve the conflict between press publishers and online platforms’. Grant agreement no. DEC-2025/09/X/HS5/00819.

Report for Stefan Batory Foundation: Michalina Kowala, „Media kontra platformy internetowe. Zasady wynagradzania i ich egzekwowanie”, 2024, media-kontra-platformy-internetowe-zasady-wynagradzania-i-ich-egzekwowanie.
Ambassador of Campus France Poland since 2022.
Ambassador of Academic Poznań since 2015.

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