Greece’s vision for AI comes to life through Pharos, the Greek AI Factory, realizing the objectives of the Blueprint for Greece’s AI transformation that prescribes a culturally sovereign digital future. This is a common initiative where creators are essential partners, not only preserving but actively shaping the future of Greek language, culture, music, and creative expression in AI ecosystems worldwide. <\/p>
To support this transition, it is vital to revisit the notion of copyright and related frameworks with the realities of AI training, generation, and commercialization, ensuring transparency, fair value distribution, and sustainable innovation. <\/p>
Together, through ethical design, technical excellence, and shared governance, the foundations for a culturally sovereign, internationally competitive, and creator-driven AI future for Greece. After the presentation of PHAROS by Alexandros Nousias, the other speakers will comment from their perspective and expertise on this project, highlighting the challenges that will bring from a copyright perspective.<\/p>
Powered by the Hellenic Copyright Organisation Greece’s vision for AI comes to life through Pharos, the Greek AI Factory, realizing the objectives of the Blueprint for Greece’s AI transformation that prescribes a culturally sovereign digital future. 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She is a member in many copyright and IP committees, and a national expert in groups for copyright and IP. She has an extensive law drafting experience (including the majority of copyright directives and recently the DSA Regulation); she has also drafted the relevant framework for the national copyright anti-piracy system (Article 66E Law 2121\/1993 and the pertinent ministerial decisions), while she is actively involved in the function and the supervision of the Greek Committee for the Notification of Copyright and Related Rights Infringement on the Internet (EDPPI). She is an author of numerous contributions in books and articles (in Greek, English and German), has presented many papers in national and international conferences and gives lectures on copyright issues. At the same time, she is a copyright expert working as a freelance attorney consulting on copyright and general IP issues and a certified civil-commercial mediator.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Maria-Daphne Papadopoulou (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"maria-daphne-papadopoulou-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 15:37:36","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 12:37:36","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=27031","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":22229,"post_author":"2128","post_date":"2024-04-30 22:42:16","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-30 19:42:16","post_content":"\n Alexandros Nousias is a Research Associate at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of NCSR Demokritos, specialising in digital and AI law, governance, and ethics. He advises research organisations, corporates, and technology companies across both research and market-facing projects, and teaches AI ethics, law, and governance at postgraduate level in Greece.\u00a0He\u00a0\u00a0promotes a shift from compliance as a minimum requirement to quality as the real foundation of trustworthy AI.\u00a0He contributed to the \u201cBlueprint for Greece\u2019s AI Transformation\u201d as Technical Consultant to the High-Level Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence to the Prime Minister. He is also involved in Pharos, the Greek AI Factory, focusing on compliance\u00a0and governance. He also serves as Chair of the Greek JTC 21 Mirror Committee on European Harmonised Standards and is an IEEE CertifAIEd AI Ethics Lead Assessor.\u00a0Alexandros\u00a0\u00a0promotes a shift from compliance as a minimum requirement to quality as the real foundation of trustworthy AI<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maria G. Sinanidou, Int. IP LL.M., is a Certified Mediation Advocate, an Accredited Mediator and since 2005 Counselor at Law and Scientific Associate at the Hellenic Copyright Organization (HCO). As a lawyer she has also worked in Germany, where she holds a law degree from, mainly dealing with copyright cases. She represents Greece in numerous EU Committees and international fora on IP. During the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2014, she served as Vice-Chairman of the European Council Working Party on Copyright and as Liaison for Greece on copyright issues. She participates as a member in Law Drafting Committees on copyright and as an IP Expert in EU Twinning Programs. She gives speeches at conferences on IP law and is the author of many articles and contributions both in Greece and abroad, in legal journals commenting on contemporary legal issues on IP and cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a copyright expert she is also working as a freelance attorney-at-law consulting on IP law in general and has a particular experience in contract law. Maria also believes in the ADR options and has experience as an accredited mediator in helping private parties to positively resolve their domestic or cross-border disputes. Maria loves art, music and the law.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Maria G. 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He is a Senior Programmes Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London, designing and managing courses on music business and digital marketing. Yannis is also a startup advisor, specialising in business modelling and pitching, with experience in different sectors of the enterprise space (tech, music tech, fintech etc). <\/p>\n","post_title":"Yannis Iliopoulos (GR\/UK)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yannis-iliopoulos-gr-uk","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-28 22:18:48","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-28 19:18:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=17039","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27453,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-04-22 12:02:09","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-22 09:02:09","post_content":"\n Dr. Zoi Mavroskoti is a copyright lawyer based in Athens, Greece. She holds a Ph.D. with
Presenter:<\/strong> Maria-Daphne Papadopoulou<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Links<\/strong>:
Linkedin: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexandrosnoussias\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Alexandros Nousias (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alexandros-nousias-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-27 16:42:09","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-27 13:42:09","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=22229","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27417,"post_author":"2133","post_date":"2025-04-18 14:13:01","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-18 11:13:01","post_content":"\n
Association, founder and owner of IPRightsGR-Dr Theodoros Chiou &
Partners law office. He offers specialized legal services in the field of
intellectual property law, digital media and technologies, with particular
emphasis and experience in the legal support of creators, artists and other
actors of the cultural and creative industry and in the legal support of the
development and operation of websites, digital applications and AI models.
The\u00f3doros Ch\u00edou holds a Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the
University of Athens, a Master\u2019s degree (Master 2 Droit de la propri\u00e9t\u00e9
intellectuelle) and a PhD in Intellectual Property Law, both from the University
of Strasbourg. He has accomplished a Post-Doc research project in the field
of contractual exploitation of musical works in the digital environment, as
scholarship holder of the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation, and another
Post-Doc research project at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens in
the field of Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/the%C3%B3doros-ch%C3%ADou-a7a9b02a9\/
<\/a>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcHHL6KGM_8a_gSAezTLzjw
<\/a>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IPrightsGR<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Theodoros Chiou (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"theodoros-chiou-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-22 12:15:44","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-22 09:15:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=27459","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":17039,"post_author":"2133","post_date":"2023-04-25 09:20:30","post_date_gmt":"2023-04-25 06:20:30","post_content":"\n
Yannis is the founder of the independent record label \u2018The Sound Of Everything\u2019, its publishing arm \u2018The Sound Of Everything Publishing\u2019, and its artist development programme \u2018Unsigned and Gifted\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.icmp.ac.uk\/<\/a>
http:\/\/www.thesoundofeverything.uk<\/a>
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distinction from the Faculty of Law of the University of Thessaloniki on the subject of multi-
territorial licensing of copyrights to music users, and a Master\u2019s degree with distinction in
Art, Law and Economics from the International Hellenic University of Greece. She is a
graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Athens and previously received a degree in
Media and Communication from the same university. She is the author of the book \u201cMulti- territorial Licensing of the Use of Musical Works on the Internet and Collective Management\u201d and has contributed to academically praised national and international collective works on intellectual property law. As a legal advisor, she currently provides her
services in copyright law, copyright clearance and licensing of digital music and audiovisual
content services to a wide range of renowned artists, film directors, photographers, authors,
film production companies, as well as organizations and cultural institutions. Among others,
she has acted as legal advisor to the artists of the official participation of Greece in the
Venice Biennale Arte in 2017, 2019 and 2024, to the Greek Film Archive (2014-2019), while
since 2021 she has been legal advisor to the collective management organization of music
copyright in Greece \u201cAUTODIA\u201d in matters related to her area of expertise. From 2019 to
2020, by decision of the Minister of Culture, she was a member of the Board of Directors of
the Hellenic Copyright Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n