Balázs Bodó
Institution
University of Amsterdam
Department
Institute for Information Law
Position
Research scientist
City
Amsterdam
Country
Netherlands
Homepage
bodo@uva.nl
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Economist Balázs Bodó, PhD, is a piracy researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society in 2006/7 and a Fellow at the Center between 2006 and 2012. In 2012/13 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since 2013 he is based in Amsterdam, working as a socio-legal researcher and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.
Before moving to the Netherlands, he was deeply involved in the development of the Hungarian internet culture. He was the project lead for Creative Commons Hungary. He is a member of the National Copyright Expert Group. As an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he helped to established and lead the university’s Master's programme in Cultural Industries. He has advised several public and private institutions on digital archives, content distribution, online communities, business development. His academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries, digital archives, informal media economies. His most recent book is on the role of P2P piracy in the Hungarian cultural ecosystem.
Articles by this author
- Personal data ordering in context: the interaction of meso-level data governance regimes with macro frameworks
- Decentralisation: a multidisciplinary perspective
- Decentralisation in the blockchain space
- Trust in blockchain-based systems
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: User preferences on digital cultural distribution
- Political micro-targeting: a Manchurian candidate or just a dark horse?
- Should we worry about filter bubbles?
- Hacktivism 1-2-3: how privacy enhancing technologies change the face of anonymous hacktivism